Balance : Wed Jan 16, 2019 9:10 am
I was going to post this on the Cas thread but it’s locked but I think it’s worth saying.Cas have been caught in a classic catch 22 here. They have built their pack around aggression which is fine but with that comes aggressive personalities. Eventually something or someone is going to blow.
On the field over the last few years the main factor in them winning against us has been their more aggressive pack. However there seems to be no balance with only Gale capable of a smile. Far too many young players without family commitments thus far to much testosterone or at least that’s how it appears to me.
We at least have players who play with a smile. Real personalities like Kirmond and Fifita. Both can be a bit daft but I can’t imagine either takes it too far.
Sometimes I think maybe we are too nice but I don’t think we are I just think a lot of our players are more grounded. Whether that’s better I don’t teally know but what I’m convinced about is that players like Lyne, BJB, Crowther and even TJ wouldn’t have had the time and space to develop at Cas that we’ve given them.
It just shows how hard it is to build a team and it has shown at Cas a lot. Brilliant at the bread and butter stuff but in the big games the always look like 17 strangers to me. That imo is down to gear the fear of being the one who blew it and knowing that there would be little sympathy.
Of course we are yet to be tried and we too could fail in a spectacular way but it wouldn’t be for the same reasons.
Brough has been brought in I suspect to add a little edge but it’s hardly overkill and even he’s older, wiser and more mellow than he used to be or at least I hope so.
I don’t think Cas will implode but I’m hoping the bubble has if not burst then it’s at least deflated a bit.
