MadDogg wrote:
Doesn't make sense to me - you could play one of Cust and Hampshire from the start and one off the bench if you needed to split the work.
It’s amazing people are clamouring for Rocky to start, or even play but I am one of them. I just don’t believe the Cust/Smith partnership works, far too similar a player. It reminds me of the Widdop/Williams partnership at Warrington in many ways.
Shorrocks has done alright but he’s not a half - I don’t even know what his best position is. The game at Hull exposed our lack of creativity and organisation in the halves and I’m not too sure we can bank the Saints/Warrington games as major plus points for our halves as each and every player 1 to 17 played out of their skin in both games. When we have an off day, like we did at Hull, we become exposed in the halves and resort to one up rugby and rubbish offloads.
I don’t think Shorrocks deserves to be dropped to 18th man but at the same time he doesn’t warrant a starting berth in the halves either. I just don’t see the logic in it personally but in Peet we trust and let’s hope we’re all proved wrong come 10pm.
