Our team is renowned for speedy, mobile forwards and talented backs, or at least have been for the past 5 or so years.
Although, how many times today did we spread the ball out to our wingers and centers? They did nothing, we were trying to win a ruck battle vs a superior pack when we had arguably the better 3/4s. Lawrence had the ball like 2 times from a run out of dummy-half and I'm willing to say he's our most dangerous ball runner on the edges. Him and Tuiaki with a bit of space can easily create a try.
We need to spread the ball with short passes along the field through the hands and go to the edges, look at our first try... we did exactly that and scored a good try.
Stop having one-out runs unless you're Keith Galloway or Gareth Ellis. Heighington makes the most useless runs. He gets the ball and turns right back into the markers for a gain of 3m.
Morris must go to lock and we should bring up Wayde Dunley, Blake Ashford, or heck even put Junior Burger in the halves and just put Morris on the bench or Lock. He's a great utility but a shocker of a half.
Halatau and Payne must go, they are utter crap. Bring back Laurie and Trimachi. Trimachi is an astute defender and Laurie is a monster. 30 minutes of him and his intimidation will do us wonders.
Another major problem is our lack of ball runners. We never run the ball at the edges or little men. It's always up the middle into the bigger forwards. Heighington and Gibbs always do this and make like 5m with each run. It's terrible. These two should run wider and towards the halves at the edge of the ruck.
I also look at some of our plays and I think to myself - wtf? There is no structure, Sheens is a totally donkey and Marshall isn't a leader @ 7. Marshall should be playing either Fullback or 5/8 so he can choose when he chimes into the attack, rather than having to be creative and structure every play.
Our 2 biggest mistakes were getting rid of Scott Prince and Anthony Laffranchi - both of them now doing wonders at the Gold Coast.
