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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3701231, member: 9052"] Maybe the other aspect to it all is it being early season. Attacks can be clunky early on and we've got Bhunt and what looks like a new hooker in the spine, as well as a new attacking scheme under Barrett coming into this year. Intent early on will be defence, completions and grinding out wins. So he might be picking players based on who is the best defender... until we get a bit deeper into the year and find a bit more rhythm. Can also look to keep players out of the early onslaught and look to bring them into the squad as teams get a bit beaten up. I think Kevvie did this with Willison last year...used Marty early and then brought Willison in later on. If you don't do that you're expecting the young guy to get through 20+ games in his first full year of NRL. They tried that with Piakura and he crashed and burned. Similar could be said about Mariner who started the year like a house on fire, but it looked like it started catching up to him by the end of it. [/QUOTE]

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