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Message: [QUOTE="WASSHHH, post: 3470802, member: 9424"] All very true, but there is also a bit of a chicken and egg element that you maybe haven’t touched on. There are certainly times that any dummy half, no matter how good they are, is unable to gain momentum if their forwards are being dominated. But what they can do is take any opportunity, no matter how small it is, to regain momentum when it finally is offered. That might be by way of identifying an opportunity or weakness in the defence, or even running a different play, to start to wrestle some ascendency back. The fact none of the options we’ve had at 9 for seemingly the last decade had any creativity whatsoever meant that once we were on the back foot, that’s where we stayed. Case in point, the endless thrashings we took during the Seibold era. So chicken and egg. A 9 who is good at their craft and knows what they are doing doesn’t [I]always[/I] rely on the forwards getting (and keeping) momentum. It definitely helps, but they have a few more tools in their arsenal to not simply rely on this. Unfortunately, our recent dud 9’s need absolutely everything to go their way before they are any chance. TBF though, how many times have we also seen us start to get some momentum only for one of our players to inexplicably drop the pill. There are certainly plenty of times you’d hate to coach this team. [/QUOTE]

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