IMO Luke’s general kicking has been great the last month - long punts, long bombs to 10m line, midfield bombs for
Leka/
Laban, consistent accurate drop outs, field goal, looked like he was on goal kicking wise in the weekend before the injury as well
With
Boyd we luckily won’t lose any of that and probably get more grubbers and consistent goal kicking from all angles
He doesn’t have the speed to finish tries but seems experienced enough to follow the breaks, so he will either get run down or play dummy half after a break, so the next playmaker needs to finish the jobs
He’s probably able to create more space for others so it’s just about how they execute.
He will probably create more drop outs too so the team needs to work on dotting down tries from grubbers and retaining drop out possession
Funny enough we can probably make up for Luke’s offensive absence as a team but we will lose out on his defense, nobody can sprint across the field for cover tackles/try savers and he did some freakish goal line defense as well
I am wondering if we should have Roger as the FB when we are defending the set in our half, that try saver in the weekend was beautiful and
TT would have gotten bundled out of the way
We could also try
TMM as 7 at the end of the game if needed as the broncos seem to struggle with a change of attacking rhythm when he took over