Gazwire wrote:
We'll recover from last night and learn a few lessons but I do have a few concerns about Currie when the chips are down (no pun intended). Past 2 games we've been short in the forwards and to me he hasn't really stepped up. In fact the opposite; he seems to back away from involvement in the hard yards department leaving others to take the knocks. He's a good player with a strong set of props, but more of a passenger without this.
But this is the same going back to last season! Currie was getting criticised from all angles for not being effective, as was Peanut. Backrowers and centres require defences to be pulled towards the middles to create one on ones or gapes on the edges.
If currie has to come in to share prop work, he isn’t being used to his forte. He fatigues, he’s out of position etc.
Put him behind a dominant pack, both him and Nicholson are
Internationals!!
I said behind a top pack Currie will be an England international again, and I was right. It’s not his job to be a prop.
