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Message: [QUOTE="Waynesaurus, post: 2884240, member: 8298"] I think ultimately what has undone us this year has been the chopping and changing in the halves. Sure injuries have played a part and forced some shuffling but the musical chairs at 7 went on all season between Hunt/Niko/Benji, it just killed any chance for a combination to build and I think that was evident in our attack against the Storm. I think the cows are a prime example of this, they lost Thurston pretty early and Morgan struggled with his new roll and halves partner, but they stuck with it and week after week the Morgan/Martin combination has just gradually improved and learnt how to play their roles. Now in the finals the investment in that consistency is paying off at the right time. Right up to finals we were still shuffling those halves around and I think moving Niko from halfback to fill in at fullback was probably the wrong thing to do in my opinion, it threw away a lot of the work that he and Milf had done. We should have stuck with Niko at 7 through the good and the bad and gone with either Mead, Kahu or possibly even Isaako at the back to replace Boyd. I think we were probably short a big metre eating forward as well, Blair and Sims just don't cut it as starting props. Blair has been particularly disappointing for me this year and I think that is why Wayne is letting him go to pursue a payday somewhere else. [/QUOTE]

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