Ballin has always had next to nothing in attack, but he just seems so much slower these days. Personally I'm not sure I would have extended his contract as far as we did, not even sure he is in the top 8 hookers in the game these days, he is certainly nowhere close to the top 3 of Smith, Farah and Luke.
The side needs some spark out of dummy half, which is exactly what we had in 2008 with L'Estrange and we were so much more potent
Even defensively Ballin was off his game tonight, pretty sure he made a poor attempt on Scott for the 1st try and missed another for a Taumalolo break