While not a fan of Tim, I am not going to put him to the sword.
The guy was meant to be playing half and ended up at fullback cause Tedesco got injured & Sheens had no alternative (there's depth for you). On top of that, last night was his first game back from another injury.
I think the reality of what we are seeing is that we don't have depth to the squad in key areas.
We have no back up fullback.
We aren't exactly flush with wingers (especially now that Lote has gone)
Our centres don't fill us with confidence (Lawrence isn't back to his best & Ayshford looks as though he's gone)
We haven't had a half since Prince (don't start on Lui as he was only a pretender in that role)
We lack serious replacements for the front row. Id Woods or Galaway are injured then start praying. Mason was a no brainer.
Second row & lock are interesting. Ellis is great but won't be here next season. Heighno scored a good try last night but lacks impact these days. Blair hasn't aimed up. Bell gets to little game time and I wonder if he'll ever make the grade compared to an Ellis. BMM plays well but isn't used correctly.
The bench, well that says it all.
We can sit here and crap on that the team should look like this or that but reality is that no matter what team we field, it isn't going to be good enough to reward the club with a premiership with the serious holes in it.. We are a rabble in defence, our attack is sparatic and directionless at times.
I'd love to be wrong but until we build up depth to some key positions we are kidding ourselves.