Matabele
Journey Man
I never nthought I'd say this but our best front rower this year has been King. A large part of this is we're nullifying Kite by playing him in the backrow and fiddling him around. He looks uncomfortable there and is not producing his best. And the whole pack look unbalanced.
With Kite playing as a 3rd front rower our backrow consists of two similar players (Stewart and Choc) who are 80 minute players, workhorses, metre eaters etc. And neither has intimidating size. There is a high predictability to the pack.
Our pack would look a whole lot better and balanced if we put Kite back to the front row, start Perry on the bench and put Cuthbo as a starting second rower (or even lock). He has size, X factor and unpredictability. Okay, tell him to curb the offloads a little, as people are expecting them, but I reckon he would add an awfdul lot playing 60 minutes and running wide on the fringes and popping offloads to Stewart and Lyon.
Perhaps Perry's injury gives us the opportunity to try this out this week?Â
With Kite playing as a 3rd front rower our backrow consists of two similar players (Stewart and Choc) who are 80 minute players, workhorses, metre eaters etc. And neither has intimidating size. There is a high predictability to the pack.
Our pack would look a whole lot better and balanced if we put Kite back to the front row, start Perry on the bench and put Cuthbo as a starting second rower (or even lock). He has size, X factor and unpredictability. Okay, tell him to curb the offloads a little, as people are expecting them, but I reckon he would add an awfdul lot playing 60 minutes and running wide on the fringes and popping offloads to Stewart and Lyon.
Perhaps Perry's injury gives us the opportunity to try this out this week?Â