I agree with keeping Ayshford in the mix but I'm doubtful about Lawrence. MU- What do you see in the post injury Lawrence that gives you the confidence to retain him? Pre injury would not be an issue, we'd keep Lawrence in a heart beat. Now, I just don't know.
It's not his injury.
Its our pissweak forwards and our unstable halves.
We have no go forward and no organisation or combinations being created from the halves.
That means neither Ayshford, Lawrence, reddy, Simona, anyone, has been able to look at all impressive in the centres since the start of 2012.
If we had a backrow with some starch and a permanent halves combination, you will see them improve rapidly.
After 2 games this year we saw Ayshford's game pick up and kept improving.
Then Miller got dropped, Ayshford saw less quality ball and his form stopped improving.
Lawrence needs to have Benji with space space, which will allow Benji to create good opportunities for Lawrence.
Ayshford needs a halfback to get him quality ball, It's no surprise that when when we have a stable halfback, Ayshford plays well.
Ayshford and Lawrence's form is linked directly to our pathetic back row.
Both of them have also been forced to cover their inside men defensively as well, because they just aren't good enough, which has seen both of them forced to stay back longer just in case they have to make covering tackles.
They may not be looking defensively strong, but when you are constantly in a situation where your defence is contracted, edge forward defenders are poor and slide slowly, you will always end up isolating your centres.
The only solution to this is to have your wingers rush up and in to shut down the attacking centre/link man the second he gets the ball to prevent the attacking side from getting outside the Tigers defenders.
We don't need ball playing back rowers, we want blokes who will do 10 hit ups'a game each as a bare minimum and are capable of making strong 1 on 1 tackles.
Instead we have a centre and a five-eighth joining Liam Fulton.
It's just not good enough.
teams will just continue to run at the fringes of our ruck, Souths exploited it on Friday night, the barely ran in the middle of the field. They were the first time to direct their big guys at our back row, because it's the first time that neither Woods or Farah had huge tackle counts.
You can see where every other team will be directing their play now too.
