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Do you think our eminent coaching staff have noticed yet ??

The waste of Hall's talents this season has being one element in many that should make those in charge hang their collective heads in shame.

Hardaker has talent: enough to keep him at FB ?? If not, then certainly not LC. (Keinhorst surely could not do any worse in that position: give him a go against Wakefield) ?

I cannot comprehend why Hall has not at least had the chance to start on the right wing this awful long season ....? If not that, why not the opportunity to play inside Hardaker by swapping their positions ? I guess McDermott must be happy with the service Hall gets.......or maybe he's not noticed owing to trying the whole match to think when best to introduce his subs; sometimes of course to the extent (three times) he runs out of time before the penny drops. Ooops.

It will certainly be intresting to see if Mac gives Zak the nod for fullback duty against wakefield instead of the inept smith, he didnt have a bad game as an imergency fullback, even when the chopping and changing of the backline clearly effected what little structure we normally have.

If ever there is a game to give the likes of Ward Keinhorst Singo and even Chisholm a go it is a game at home against Wakefield when a fair few of our knackered looking players will have played for England two nights before, not to mention injuries to Mags Webb Kirke and Watkins

I refuse to believe that the lad can't pass a rugby ball, the longer its gone on and gone unnoticed or unchanged by the coaching staff has lead me to believe its another McDermott masterplan. Knowing the oppostion will be highlighting stopping Hall after his 4 Nations efforts i think McDermott might of told Hardaker to take on the defence without thinking of the pass and stepping back inside to catch out a defence who would be expecting us to get one of are most dangerous players the ball at every oppotunity. And on some occasions early on it worked but now they expect Hardaker to run and not pass he's struggling yet McDermott sticks with it because he's quite stubborn with his ideas.

I think it also highlights the lack of structure the team has as its often a team effort to get their wingers in not just down to the centre (although he obviously plays a big part) and the team on the whole haven't created enough good chances to get Hall involved not just Hardaker. Many have asked for Hall to go to the right wing but its not like BJB/Smith have seen lots of ball there too.

Big Keith Senior?

I have been saying this for weeks, Hardaker has this trait of not passing it out to Hall, instead he trys to go off on his own. That's one of the reason's Hall's try record has slowed down this season. Although to be fair Hardaker had an 8 match try scoring record earlier this season.

This is a Team Sport, not a Glory Boy Sport.

You are a Gear in the Machine, not THE Machine.

Time to drill this into more than one within the Rhinos Squad.

ThePrinter wrote:

I refuse to believe that the lad can't pass a rugby ball.

He can. But he struggles when passing to his left, when he does he looks very awkward. Passing the ball on the run is a lot harder than passing from a standing position (I'm sure you know that, not trying to patronise)

So what's the excuse for creating zero running chances for the right winger? Leeds don't move the ball sharply enough in either direction and those who should be providing decoy runs and holding inside defenders aren't interested or fit enough to do so. As a result, defenders can just slide and cut down space for the outside backs.

One for tvoc.

Do you keep stats on try assists? If so, how many of Halls tries have come from a Webb 'cut out pass' compared to a straight pass from Hardaker?

TIA

Charlie Sheen wrote:

He can. But he struggles when passing to his left, when he does he looks very awkward. Passing the ball on the run is a lot harder than passing from a standing position (I'm sure you know that, not trying to patronise)

That's a fair comment, but again its something that should be getting coached into him. Whilst it is harder to pass on the run its also not exactly the hardest skill to learn/teach in rugby.