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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3447265, member: 9052"] I think it slipped a little this year, because Bellamy flipped the script and he wasn't really meant to be playing much hooker. In 2021 BSmith started the game at hooker, played 30mins or so and then Harry would play out the game... BSmith would then come back on later as a bustling lock looking for quick ptb's. It ended up being that Bellamy would rest Harry if he got a sniffle so BSmith played a ton of hooker and was the most dangerous player coming out of dummy half under the 6 again rules. In this year's first pre-season game it looked like BSmith was going to be a ballplaying lock and Harry would be playing big minutes at hooker with Wishart or whoever being utility and hooker support off the bench, but not getting many minutes. Based on that BSmith was bulked up expecting he would primarily be a middle forward. BSmith then broke his hand 5mins into round 1 and continued to pick up injuries moving forward... King started to solidify himself as a reliable third prop style lock and Bellamy completely changed the plan to BSmith playing 35-40mins off the bench and not really doing anything. I think Bellamy was too slow to figure out how he wanted to use BSmith, and I'm not sure why he just completely threw out the plan of BSmith playing a link man 13... or had just cracked the shits because he was moving to rorters and decided he'd try and come up with a plan for the future. [/QUOTE]

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