Yes to all of this. The question I was trying to ask is were there any other things outside of the injuries/recruitment? I mean is our attack stalling purely down to having Capewell playing second row instead of Marata or Curran for example?
There's two issues I see:
1. A major plan was well publicised but unable to be executed due to injury:
- we needed better middle support for AFB
- Marata was moved to the middle
- Capewell brought in for the right
- both have barely featured.
- Curran and Siro exodus were part of these plans, we lost guys and those we kept can't get on the field.
2. Webster (notice he is Webster now a lot more than Webby...) was way to cushy with the media about RTS, Taine & CNK.
- by all means communicate what needs to be communicated internally but give nothing away publicly
- Any positional change now for RTS & CNK is going to make him look a bit of a fool.
- He knows this, can only hope he can rise above going against his steadfast public words.
Above all, you get a sense they felt all the stars had aligned to a top 4 maybe top 2 finish this year. They went all in and it's more than blindingly obvious there is no plan B.