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Message: [QUOTE="rnabokov, post: 2584109, member: 1847"] I just can't agree with this. The lack of a genuine 5/8 has repercussions throughout the entire team. It puts unnecessary pressure on a lot of players, Hunt in particular. Our left side has been virtually useless (and I am critical of Glenn here as well for not passing more), we lack help in organizing and directing the plays down the left, we miss seriously a 2nd kicking option to just Hunt, and for mine, if we had a genuine 5/8, we would have beaten every side this year, except the Rabbits who had 19 players. Our kicking game is woeful. One kicker really who is always under enormous pressure? Seriously. This is just DUMB. Look at Souths last night: Reynolds and Sutton, and an great kicking game. Whilst last night Hodges did pretty well, he was defending here, attacking there, and Barba was really the 5/8 but in a structure that was too complicated for its own good which, for mine, explains inpart, why Barba was less effective than v Knights. At least with Hoffman there, Barba was much more comfortable running on both the left and right hand sides, up the middle and setting up plays and tries. Be it Barba, (not Hodges - he is not a 5/8) Duncan P, Strasser, we will be scoring more points which, on the back of a great defence, would win us more games. This game is not won just on defence, you also need to score points. [/QUOTE]

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