Re: Kyle Amor : Sat Jun 20, 2015 12:51 pm  

I have a couple of theories on what's gone on/is happening.

First of all, I absolutely think the club got carried away with how dominant Walmsley was in the first third of the season. This culminated around the Leeds game where he basically ended up taking circa half the carries of our entire prop rotation singlehandedly. Thankfully, that has been resolved somewhat.

Secondly, I'm hopeful that Cunningham is simply working the group to keep them all as fresh as possible. Walmsley is really the only steady presence in terms of workload all season. The rest have varied between next to nothing and big workloads. I do suspect it's with a view to keeping them all ready to go. I'd be amazed if come knock out rugby, we don't see Amor taking 18+ carries again allowing the rest to work around him.

Unfortunately, the third possibility is that it's entirely deliberate to limit Amor's work. If that's the case, then I have severe doubts over it. Amor when he takes only 10ish carries takes an absolute hammering (see Wigan away). He isn't able to balance his early hammering by getting on top in his second stint when we reduce his carries and the result is an ineffectual prop forward. When he does the bulk, Walmsley, Masoe and Richards rotate at 8 and 10 and Thompson and Savelio rotate at 13.

What people aren't recognising quite yet is that Cas away was the first time all season we ran with only four props, in order to fit Wilkin and Greenwood in the back row. We shifted LMS to prop, where he is terrible and it's no coincidence that for the first time all season, an opposition got on top of us big time in the second half. Wilkin going to back to 11 or 13 is going to amend our entire tactical set up and I'm hugely sceptical of us doing it but we almost certainly will. Amor's role becomes even more crucial at that point as he simply has to take 20 carries or we are reliant on poor go forward from LMS and Richards as half of our rotation.

Re: Kyle Amor : Sat Jun 20, 2015 1:52 pm  

I wish Amor were injured. As bad as this sounds it's eminently preferable to the alarming idea that Amor is consistently delivering sub-par performances without excuse.

Down THAT road lie monsters.

Re: Kyle Amor : Sat Jun 20, 2015 2:22 pm  

Even tho he's not playing to his ability, he's still a decent prop and always gives 100% so it's hard to call him

Re: Kyle Amor : Sat Jun 20, 2015 10:45 pm  

Mugwump wrote:

I wish Amor were injured. As bad as this sounds it's eminently preferable to the alarming idea that Amor is consistently delivering sub-par performances without excuse.

Down THAT road lie monsters.

you wish your own player was injured?
You are a total up ur own booty fan.
I would take Amor off your hands in an instant.
For me he represents all that it took to take the title last year. A first class club man who works his nuts off every match. Take that so called analytical eye off and accept that on his day he suits your style of play perfectly.
As an outsider I would take him ten times out of ten versus Masoe or LMS.
A top clubman who it seems isn't part of the "elite". To me a guy who represents genuine honest effort versus someone like Mossop at our place who doesn't even comprehend what effort is.
Give the guy a break I think he deserves it.

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