The Bench

[Rocky]

Hard to criticise Des after the year that has been. But for most of the year Ive never really understood his substitutions. Again tonight leaving Keppie and Sirro until later in the second half makes no sense.

I really feel like the rotation of Keppie, Paseka, Jake, Marty, Sipley (Sirro), Aloiai can match or get on top of every pack in this competition. Why aren't we playing these big boppers and rotating them over the 80 minutes? We need the go forward but it really seems like we are so poor in deciding to have guys go hard for 20 minutes (or whatever the number is), rotating and rinse and repeat.

Instead its keeping two of these guys on the bench until late in the game.. it doesn't make sense to me. We need to win the battle in the middle and this does us no favours.

 

[XV-1]

Agree

Sipley should be on the bench if Des is only going to use Sirro for 5 minutes.

Keppie should have been on b4 half time.

 

[Remy]

So trueeeeeeee. We got big heavy hitter props that can change momentum and help with the middle battle but the rotation is so confusing, like why is Keppie only playing the last 20 minutes. Baffles me.