Sorry, going to have to disagree with you on this one. If you watch Webb when the opposition make a break you will notice how aware he is. Not only is he lining up his man but he directs the cover defence as to which support runners to take.

I would take Lauititi over Kirke / Pitts any day of the week. You can criticise him for being injury prone, however IMO you can't fault his commitment when he does get on the pitch. Some things may not come off for him but I'd rather have him offering the potential of something rather than Kirke offering very little. Ali has played half the game Kirke has and has made more tackle busts, more offloads and scored more tries than Kirke has. I would also guess that despite his declien over recent years, opposition teams are still more fearful of Ali than they ever have been of Kirke which helps create space for others.

...you act as though that's a good thing

??

Well at least our RH side selection did it's job on Yeaman ,Manu and Briscoe whilst also getting a couple of good scores.

We'd have done even better with Hardaker (wing), BJB (centre) and Delaney (SR)....



....Unless of course you think Hauraki is more deserving of his selection ahead of Hardaker.

(Actually he looking a little better these days, but my main point remains Hardaker did not deserve to be dropped.)

Would you still have picked Webb? Ok so he got a pass out for a well worked try, but his poor defence and positioning is letting the side down! Kyle managed to run further than him! I'll admit that his second half performance was much better, but I'd prefer a little more consistancy at full back.

Some of the tackling in the first half from webb was very poor, even for Webb