Quote: The Yellow Giraffe "Don't be silly, you're showing a bit of naivety here. It's not just a simple case of "can he pass?" It's more to do with spotting the gaps in the defence and making the right pass selection. That's the kind of thing that won't come natural to props and 2nd rowers.
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Thats right natural half backs are much quicker thinkers and can see the options much better combined with correct timing, you get a couple of back row forwards who can do it also like O'Loughlin, Wilkin ,Ferres, Sinfield for instance but we were missing Wilkin.
When Wellens started mid season in the halves he concentrated on the "middle" to cut down the errors, when Flanagan started in the halves he also had to concentrated on the "middle" to cut down the errors.
We also lost our kicking game with Walsh, Wilkin and Hohaia missing so if was left to Turner to provide a kicking game at the expense of a passing one.
Browny just had to "cut his cloth" to what was available and again concentrated on the middle in both attack and defence it was a strategy worth while because our pack "was on the button" and on the advantage.