I'd prefer just to get Moltzen out of the fullback position. He's had three years to make decent fist of it and he fails to do so. The entire backline covers for him, Ryan takes his kick return hit ups, we had Lote cleaning up after his botched attempt at fielding a kick, we had Lawrence defusing kicks and Humble making cover tackles because Moltzen was out of position in defence. This is all because he is a bludger and a liability at fullback.
There's a sequence of events occurs regularly every match. Moltzen fields the ball after a kick, running across field to offload to a winger, forcing them to take the hitup and then getting into dummy half to pass to the other winger to take the next hitup. It makes me want to tear my hair out every time I see it. All that time running across field allows the defensive line more time to limit the amount of metres gained from the first hitup and makes our forwards work a lot harder to firstly get back onside and secondly they've got to make more hard yardage up the middle.
Real fullbacks just run it back hard themselves, looking to beat players with their pace and footwork. Blokes like Slater, Hayne and Barba score tries from it. Teams worry about it so much that the Knights and Dragons were deliberately kicking the ball dead to shut down opposition fullbacks.
I don't care what happens, whether he's benched, dropped or permanently switched to another position, just get him out of fullback.
