Sal Paradise wrote:
If only Delanney had played - his 15 minutes would have been turned the nature of the game!!
For me: McGuire, JJB, Delanney, Burrow, Ablett, Cuthbertson and Galloway need to go as does the coach and the conditioner
McGuire and Cuthbo were arguably our 2 best players last year, McGuire had more direct contributions to tries than any other player in the league. I would definitely be giving these two another year, especially McGuire as he still looks injured to me.
Galloway has looked okay after a poor start and I would keep him on.
JJB and Burrow have by no means been our worst players, I would keep them on (depending on how much they get paid), they mights not start for us but will provide valuable experience in the squad and will step up in big games if required.
Delaney and Ablett on the other hand should probably be moved on.
It is harsh to say but Delaney is just too injury prone and can't string 2 games together, we should pay him out the rest of his contract for his services and imo it should come out of Macs pay for playing him far too often when he wasn't fully fit.
Ablett has been shocking this year and was one of the few players in our squad who didn't play well last year. If he is playing through injury or something then that might explain it, but I assume not as we have second rowers on the bench. The dropped ball for HKR first try was an error you would scoff at a part time player making, never mind a former international.
I actually think you have hit the nail on the head re the conditioner, far too often we have looked sluggish and lost the fight down the middle, at the start of the year we blamed it on having Burrow at hooker, but we managed fine in 2013/14