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.
Even if the dogs win - they had to keep half a first 17 out there for most of the game. Considering they were playing us at reducing strength starting in the first 30, that's pretty embarrassing if they are only just starting to win the contest now.