Quote Jimathay="Jimathay"Nail on the head. Deus Dat & ratticus.
With the number of quality players (and leaders) we lost - we were always in for transition season(s). If GOB/Myler or Ratchford/Myler was supposed to be the succession plan, then we should have stuck to our guns and played them, accepting a year or two of improvement time - especially as it was perhaps a year sooner than expected.
Instead, we panicked when we weren't as strong or successful as the previous few years, and messed with our HB paring too often over the next couple of years, chopping and changing them seemingly every couple of weeks, using various combos of Myler/Ratchford/Bridge/GOB/Patten, which left us worse off than if we'd just stuck it out with one pair.
All we needed was to replace Briers with was a HB with a kicking game. You'd never replace his x-factor, but you could replace his field kicking (something I thought GOB had, and would improve with over time). Myler could pass, pull us around the park, run with the ball, and keep the team moving + he was the best supporting HB in the competition. He just needed to be paired with someone who could kick to move us up the field and give us something on the last tackle. But hindsight is 20/20.'"
2015 was awful for the this, have some confidence and belief stick with a pairing, rather than publicly undermine and show you have no confidence in them by moving a fullback and a centre to keep patching it up.
That to me was when i decided smith needed to go.
