That depends if you believe they clashed or not. I don’t but even so. Hooker can put on moves before it even goes out to the halves. Edwards support play or Naden kick chase is 2 under used moves. Barrett and Api can come up with a few moves surely.. the less imput from Ivan the better
I find it very hard to believe the back five we have now could go worse than the back five we started last year with. Edwards was woeful. Dallin was makin plenty of errors. Waqa looked like a shell of himself. They were terrible the opening rounds. Too is an Improvement over dallin on the wing, better reads defensively, similar metres and he is a better finisher. Mansour will likely be the other winger, coming off a down year he could get worse but it’s not likely. Naden is a fair downgrade defensively on waqa we all know that but he can sniff out a try better than any outside back we’ve had for a while and we have lost Jimmy from that side defensively which hopefully will help. Lot of reasons to expect Naden to improve also. Edwards, if he starts worse than he did this I will give it away. That was the worst run of terrible form from any fullback I’ve ever seen. Even that game on the wing he lost for us with a one on one simple missed tackle against the titans. The type of tackle he never would’ve missed.
So I can see an argument our back line won’t get better but I can’t see how it could possibly be worse than last season when we only just missed the 8.
The big unknown is how big a loss is Jimmy. I’f the spine can get her better somehow then we should get better, good enough for the 8, not a threat though but everyone can see that.
