Duff said:
Maybe with a brilliant 5/8 with a boring halfback is needed.
Put Carney or Mullen in the 6 and give them free reign to carve it up. Then have someone like Peter Wallace or (waiting for things to get thrown at me) Rob Jeffson there just to organise and kick. Farah can be our option with a ball playing lock like Gifty and Hayne doing his thang on the other side of the field.
Nothing else has worked.
I do think we need a backline that has plenty of points in it, as well as plenty of speed. Hayne, Jennings, Morrises are pretty good options. I liked the look of Tedesco but it looks like he's out again.
Unlike a lot of others I'm not anti Pearce. I actually think he's a very good club player, tough and can play to set routines and structures. But I just don't think he's quite capable of the brilliance required at the next level.
Maloney is doing nothing this year. So is Adam Reynolds. Josh Reynolds is a feisty little effer but he just doesn't have much else in my opinion.
Carney has brilliance stamped all over him (with the occasional monumental screw up) as does Brooks. Who else is there really to pick in the halves?
The major thing is he don't get steamrolled in the forwards. I think the halves have at times taken a lot of the blame (which usually happens) for these losses when the QLD forwards have bashed us. So we need 4 really top line props....anyone? Personally I'm old school and want 4 props along the lines of the Chief, Lazarus or Blocker. We need some fire. Guys in the mould of Greg Bird who really do get p***** off that we lose SOO. I think Tim Grant is worth another go, Aaron Woods.....maybe he will probably make it by default. I'm not sold on Tamou but sure he will be there again. Probably Gallen as well since we have a wealth of talent in the backrow....choc, Gift, Merrin, Bird, T-Rex (just checking if anyone was reading!!!), Tariq Sims etc