You lose a winger or centre - you're toast. With a 4 man bench, you can't cure every problem without creating glaring new ones.
If a Centre goes down, it's really up to a 2nd Rower to slide out - then you're going to have pace problems, so they just need to change how they defend and train it...
It's more what Storm do with NAS - you mis-match the defenders with the big man. Payne has some pace for a big man - you get him 1:1 with the half back or centre and you're at worst looking at a 2 man tackle not wrapping the ball - which means offload time to Staggs and co with a 2nd rower to...
The only positive thing he did was put up a good bomb. He only had to take what 3 catches and bobbled one. Dropped a soda of a pass too and in defense, I'd back myself to score against him.
Depends on when Blake is back in - if he's back in the first month, I think we're golden. When Mam returns or is at least available - we get Hunt option for halves or 14. We're good there hopefully.
Fullback though - eek - No Sailor, Perham - Seigwalt is definitely not the solution - he was...
We don't use Payne correctly, that's why.
I've said for years, Payne would be devastating for us playing in the 2nd Row in attack. Defending in the middle.