Highkicks
Herbert Moran (7)
Absolutely!
Hodge is not a playmaking 5/8. He simply doesn’t have a good enough passing game, and even struggles to pass it left to right. Paisami is equally not a playmaker 12, but I actually thought he showed some passing skills yesterday that I hadn’t seen from him before, so it was a step up, but still between the two of them the outside back simply aren’t getting any real quality ball.
We’ve got two world class attacking players in Petaia and Koroibete, and Wright who looks decent himself, but they aren’t getting clean ball, or opportunities for them to show their talent.
They got opportunities, just like last game. Banks threw a poor ball to Koroibete, who also overan it. Would have been a try. Paisami’s kick through was about as pretty good and could have been a try if executed slightly better, by either Paisami or Petaia.
Also recall Hodge and Paisami executing perfect passes to get the ball 3/4 across the field, left to right, last game before banks passed behind.
I’d say they have better passes than JOC (James O'Connor). Both Hodge and Paisami held the ball in two hands, ran forward and decided wether to pass, kick or run based on what was in front of them. They either took the meters themselves or put people in space, we made a tonne of meters in the first half alone. Probably no point banging on about it but I’d love to see the 10,12,13 combo get more time..