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Hohaia needs a good talking to about when to just hold the ball and hit the line.
100% agree with you on this. I actually dont like him at fullback that much. I think McKinnon is far better defensively and the only reason Hohaia is there is because he is better at passing to his outsides at the line, which seems to be the new thing with fullbacks these days (eg. hayne, slater, hunt when he played league).
He is still dodgy under the high ball and lets some bounce for no reason. He also takes way too long retrieving the balls that find the grass. He saunters up to them letting them bounce 3 or 4 times rather than attacking the ball and hitting the chasers at pace, costing the team 10-15m in territory everytime. This is also why he sometimes gets caught in the deadball area when he had no reason to be still in there when the chasers arrived.
And as you said. he needs to harden up and take a few more hitups instead of throwing hospital passes to others (and if you throw to Ropati, you are rolling the dice).
Do you think Locke will be tried at fullback? He was struggling under the high balls in that game against Penrith (consequentially he got dropped the following week). Hard to gauge his form at fullback in the U20s as defense isnt really a priority in those games.
