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Beaver lover
Some people seem to be suggesting we just pick the team on who has the most experience.
I would question what ballin has done wrong to not be picked?
I rate hodges and I rated ballin while he was stuck behind monaghan. Hodges makes some mistakes though and I think we need consistency in our hooker. Ballin is half the reason our backline sweeps work so well. His timing and delivery is outstanding from dummy half. In the limited time I've seen hodges I feel like he sometimes does a double take about whether he can go himself and it throws off the timing of set plays. Its nitpicky but until ballin declines he's there all day for me.
An incumbent has to do a lot more bad to lose a job than the bloke replacing him has to do to win it!!!