SLS wrote:
Cunningham has messed him about like crazy. His carries every week vary from 18+ to 10ish. It's silly. Brown used him as the cornerstone of our entire pack, a role that suits him down to the ground but now he's just another part of the rotation. He's always been a prop who tends to take a hammering in his first spell and gets on top in his second. When you limit his carries so much, his effect is almost irrelevant and he just appears to take a battering.
One of the really confusing aspects of the coaching this year is the use of Amor. Should be 20+ carries every week and rotate the rest. As it is there are many weeks where Richards takes more carries. Odd.
I think you've got to give Cunningham a little more credit than that. He's not some simpleton dingbat. He's a shrewd guy who knows as much as anyone what Amor brings to the table.
My guess is there is some kind of issue with Kyle this year which, whilst not putting him in the infirmary, is significantly reducing his ability to perform close to 100%. If I had another guess, Keiron's strange rotation policy is symptomatic of a coach doing his best to MANAGE an injury. Perhaps Amor has some kind of deep seated issue (say a groin problem or an issue with his vertibrae). In an ideal world you'd just send the player to the surgeon. But if the injury is manageable it makes more sense running Amor at 75% up to season's end than sending him away now, in which case the team gains nothing.
It's a tough choice which likely weighs heavy on a coach. Basically you're asking someone to put themselves through considerable pain (not to mention risking exacerbating the problem) for the team's sake.
I'm just guessing. But it's the best explanation I can come up with to explain events.
