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Message: [QUOTE="Thelmus, post: 3021434, member: 8988"] The one player at his potential at the moment is knik. You can't say he isn't putting in every week. It's just that he has a terrible long-range kicking game, doesn't have the authority to direct the team (how can he, when 1, 7 and 9 are all paid more and given higher status), and because of his size, is an easy target in defence. If we could find a way to transfer his work ethic on the field to others in the team, we'd be a lot further ahead as far as what Siebold wants of this team. That's the problem. We lose focus when the pressure is applied. Milford tries to single-handedly sometimes, dig a diamond out a lump of coal with a 5th play run, or a back tries to run around the edge defence, or a forward tries second phase play after our players have defended for a couple of sets (with the inevitable knock-on, intercept, forward pass etc.). Sometimes you just have to take your medicine and suck it up with a deep kick to the corners, or a deep bomb (though we like them way too much). The problem is that because Knik cant kick nor can anyone else in the backline (apart from milf). We are stuck with either a dodgy kick straight to an attacking back, ready to carve half those metres back on the first tackle or our opponents using the ball from a restart as a result of that "diamond-seeking" adventure. I can't see too many easy answers, but if one of these young halves has a great kicking game, I'd be considering rushing them into the team in some capacity. We need last tackle options, and we need one of those halves (who can kick) to do it. Unfortunately, that doesn't leave a whole lot of candidates. [/QUOTE]

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