Originally Posted by
AndyS
He is thirty two and an incumbent Wallaby, so expecting that he will suddenly play to some other game plan than the one he has always played seems a bit unlikely. He is the first player to get his hands on the ball, he pretty much decides what happens from there, and I'd expect it will be whatever normally happens from there. The rest of the team better be on-board with that, or the coaches will need to get them onto that plan - it was them that decided he was the marquee for them, and you don't buy a cat and expect it to bark. Fines will also need to get on-board with that style or move on, unless the team can suddenly change to a whole different game plan on the fly. And they need to look for or teach another player to fit in too, otherwise the team will be going through yet another rebuild in two years time.