Quote: craig hkr "Can't argue with that although Hauraki has been decent for most part up until Friday? Atkin is along with Quinlan our best attacker but doesn't get a game?
Garbutt Hall Crooks Lawler Linnett turned up the other 12 need to have a hard look at themselves. Attitude is so big in RL and our team seem lazy as a group at present'"
Atkin is a decent player, and I think there is a case for playing him more - but now is probably a good time for his reputation to be out of the team. It makes him whatever the opposite of a scapegoat is. We have problems, he isn’t playing so there’s a tendency to assume he offers a solution - at least a partial one. Unfortunately, I think the halfback debate is down the list of our issues. It reminds me a bit of when some people got stressed that James Green or Will Oakes were left out. It soon becomes obvious that these players are serviceable, but hardly saviours.
After promotion and survival in ‘17 and ‘18, there’s an element of ‘so what now?’ about this season, imo. I think as a club we have both an opportunity and a need to decide what we want to be now. Tbh, I think we’ve had a bit of an identity crisis these last few years, and it’s understandable that we’re still in recovery.
