For those defending Poore, please check the opening penalty against St George (putting immense pressure on the team from the outset) and then I think the first penalty against Moanly (inside the ten, in the second set of the afternoon) if memory serves me correctly. Niggly penalties, from someone who is "trying" to ascert themselves.
I doubt he is being paid to put pressure on the team? There are others on less than him, that are doing that well enough now, and were doing so early last year as well.
Maybe he needs to do a few rounds with Danny Green - someone to smack some life to the dead carcass...