Don't need anything too drastic. Cayless' impact wasn't obvious, but he had the highest involvement of any of our forwards... topped the tackle count with 32 and was the 2nd highest metre eater in the forwards with 111 metres. In today's heat, that was a pretty good effort. He wasn't the only player to come up with a dropped ball today either and it was only 1 at that. Also, if Tahu and Grothe return, their DHR's on the early tackle counts will take pressure off the props... we were sorely lacking in that department today.
Morris also had a high defensive work rate (30 tackles, 0 missed). Although he's improved a bit, Timmy's a liability in defence and so is Marsh (6 missed tackles today)... we have to have a five-eighth who can tackle, but can also provide a second option as a playmaker (O'Dwyer can handle the defence but not the playmaking). He's slowly improving after having a poor preparation to the season with a torn pec, and that needs to continue. He came up with a try assist and line break assist today, and provides another option with his boot.
I don't think Delaney should be thrown straight into 1st grade after 2 weeks off and a fairly limited preparation. Assuming Morrison is unavailable and the others are back I would go with the following line-up for next week.
1. McKinnon
2. Burt
3. B Smith (needs to get more involved)
4. Tahu
5. Grothe
6. Morris
7. T Smith
8. Cayless
9. Riddell
10. Stringer
11. Hindmarsh
12. Robinson (needs to get more involved)
13. O'Dwyer
14. Marsh
15. Widders
16. Vella
17. Lewis (great offloads today)