Zig wrote:
I’ve got to admit that Bevan is growing on me as a six but let’s see how he performs for the rest of this season. Two things I want to see is a better understanding with our three quarters and doing away with the cut out pass when he has thrown a dummy. The golden rule of rugby league is that if you throw a dummy you take on the line otherwise you are allowing the defence to advance and possibly intercept the ball. I like you, Phuzzy, am now willing to give him a chance to make the position his own.
There are a few decision related things to iron out but they're probably experience rather than ability related. I look at the cut out pass for example and the truth is, as exasperating as it is when it happens, we've comfortably scored far more tries as a result of it than we've conceded so it's more a matter of tempering the risky ones than curtailing it's use. Maybe it's a case of those intercepts having needed to have happened in order for him to be better equipped to make the right choices more often going forward. "You learn more from your mistakes than your successess" if you will. Your example is a good one of where he can be better going forward and I think he will.
If there had been little progress then I could see a reason to be looking for other answers but the truth is he's made giant strides in relatively few games. His kicking, in particular, has gone from erratic to top drawer in his latest game. Now I'm not saying the progression will be linear. Of course it won't. The nature of any progression is two steps forward, one step back. That's natural. However, I reckon it's been 3 steps forward and half a step back so far in his run of games at 6 and the potential far outweighs any negatives at this stage.
