Quote sally cinnamon="sally cinnamon"He will feel like a massive tool today so doesn't need any extra punishment.
If we drop him to 'send a message' then all we do is bring in a lesser player which just helps the opposition.'"
Agreed, we do seem to have 3 left centres though and no natural right centre! I think the back 5 needs a resfhuffle, personally I would go with
Atkins, goodwin, brown, ratchford, lineham
Our back 5 wasn't great last night, I didn't enjoy ratchford at FB or Russel on the wing or Atkins on the right. Russel wasn't atrocious by any means, we know what he does well and he does that well consistently but he is too limited for my liking. Jack Johnson has impressed me at FB too when he has played there so could possibly play FB ahead of mitch brown. Atkins and goodwin can swap centre and wing like King and Atkins used to.
We need to find combinations that work and some willingness to run off the ball to give options to the halves. Clark made a few breaks and found himself alone which is disappointing. It was all a little bit blunt in attack last night but save 3 or 4 brainfarts defence was good.