Team selection disection

[Thryleon]

Phillips and Rowe look right to go to me, although Phillips shared a lot of the load with De Koning.

Lamb is one of those blokes like Ed Curnow, great in the 3rd or 4th banana role, but not effective at being the front man.

I agree but the weekend showed that we are very much got the balance wrong between experience and inexperience to be competitive.  Lamb is 25, and has played 50 games now.  We need him to provide us with leadership or prove that he can't because time is running out for these peripheral players.  If he can give us the chop out we need, he will get another year next year, and if he can't then we pull the plug on him and look elsewhere.

We are going to have one of those years where we need to make decisions, and we need to know if players are able to show the right stuff to be worth persisting with.