Quote: Harold Rigby Jnr "I have said it all season VL, Reynolds and Hutchison are two very similar halves, both in stature and style, both their games rely heavilly on runners. Very easy for the opposition to nullify IMHO.
We are badly lacking creativity in that department to unlock defences. In answer to your question, yes I would move Hall into 6 now to at least to try and ignite a spark.
I take your work ethic point,but who signs defensive half backs first and foremost ?'"
It felt too much like we had gone back to our old bad ways yesterday, especially at 6 and 7. I have been saying for a while now how predictable Leigh are to play against because out half backs always want to pass and not take on the defensive line enough, and this goes back to the days of Riddy. A few weeks ago Reynolds and Hutchison started to go at the line more and it was working. Defenses were getting unlocked and tries came. Yesterday that hardly ever happened, so even when Fax went a man down for ten minutes they still read all our plays and gobbled us up when we tried to attack. It is possibly a confidence thing but our halves need to become unpredictable to the opposition by taking the line on more.
Now Fax are a good side and worked hard, but they didn't half show some of the frailties in our game. We got hammered around the ruck time after time by Johnston and Moore. They were a at least a yard quicker than us at times.
Also they respected possession better than us. We put down too much ball and make life hard for ourselves. Jamie is a repeat offender and needs to hold that ball for dear life.
I too would also like to see more leadership, a clear and obvious organiser. Yesterday, the wheels fell off a few times and we almost imploded. Credit to the boys for hanging in there but any more rugby of that standard over the next two weeks may prove fatal to our top 4 chances.
