Why is Lawrie selected in front of LPT and Fafita? The metres gained by our middles is crucial. Lawrie cannot compete with the 2 young middles and their charges help to ensure we are putting up an attacking kick on the last tackle. If you watched the Canberra game back, the whole Raiders attack comes of the back of their charges when coming out of their territory. Their back five don't jog back, they charge back, land on elbows and knees. They then fight to get up, walk off the mark by 3 metres and play the ball super quick. The next charge is now running at a retreating defence. Jamal Fogarty is then putting up an attacking kick from 40m out from our line. This extra 10 to 15m obtained by better, quicker, smarter, further charges is the reason that all Canberra's kicks were landing on and around our tryline. Unfortunately for Kyle, his kicks were usually from our own side of halfway. In the arm wrestle, it is essential we scrap and fight for every metre. Therefore Lawrie should not be there. He makes very few metres, gets pushed back, rolled on his back and then he dishes up the slowest play the ball.
This is why we are useless when we need a field goal. We struggle to get the role up the field to get us into field goal position.