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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3662010, member: 9052"] Re Patty it's more about having enough in the squad to cover the loss of him given his importance to the team in attack, etc. I think Kevvie's fallback is Payne at the moment... which isnt a fallback at all, because he's a starter. It's the same as Cobbo being the fallback across the backline. That tells me the depth in the squad isnt good enough... or Kevvie is having to be too reliant on the stars to get his gameplan across. I thought there were promising signs from Smoothy when he filled in at lock... and I've said that I would like to see Billy have a stint in the middle to see if he can cover Patty's ball playing. The dogs have been using Mann, Hayward, Curran, etc. for stints at lock. Souths have been using Cook recently in that role... and there are plenty others. It was a role that I liked for Gamble before he moved on... but either way it's something they need to recruit for because if Patty goes down then what the **** will be the answer. Would kill for Asiata to be in the squad just quietly. For Kobe there was a time a couple years back, probably 2022, when he had the 13 on a few times and basically played the mid-2010's third prop role for 80mins. It was showing he has the motor to do work on the field, so I expected he would just gradually increase his prop role to near 50mins.... but he has just stagnated massively. The bench throughout this year has just looked unbalanced... mainly due to the lack of flexibility and utility value across it. You cant have a best 17 that is completely undone because you lose a second rower... basically means you can barely cover any injuries. [/QUOTE]

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