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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 2944349, member: 9052"] Some of the shots at Boyd recently just appear to be bias built up from his early year form when injured. I'm definitely one that is critical of Boyd at times but anyone suggesting that he was shit last night is just way off the mark. He was safe as a bank under the high balls and was able to diffuse a few difficult situations by getting to the ball on the full. At one point Moses chipped one over the top about 20m out looking for dead space in front of our line but Boyd caught it on the full easily hit the deck to stay in field and got us back on the ball. It was a very dangerous little kick that was mopped up easily. I thought he picked his times better between floating behind the line and coming up in defence. Eels have the most line drop outs this year so they would've been looking for Boyd in the line to kick behind. We had the back line sweep humming last night. Kahu bombed one when he hogged it instead of putting Oates one on one (something Opa gets crucified for)... and his kick returns were also solid. To me Boyd is back to where he was early 2017. He's not the guy who will break the game open with an electric run, but he is back to being solid in defence under the bomb and able to finish off the sweep when it's on. His movement also looks back to normal. As long as he fixes up his timing between floating behind the defence and coming up in the line (which is a coaching issue to me) our defence should remain rock solid. [/QUOTE]

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