That game was the perfect example of why some of us have been dead against Hodges moving to fullback permanently. He's slow, cant catch a kick to save his life, gets too involved, and just isn't agile enough. Trying to pickup grounded balls at full flight without even getting down close to it, not once but at least twice, one which resulted in a try. Letting simple bombs bounce numerous times. And where was he for the try off the bomb? Attempting to take it? Nope. Attempting to tackle him after he caught it? Nope. Trying to hols him up? Nope. He was nowhere to be seen!
People comparing his dummy half work to mcculloughs are missing the bigger picture there - mccullough is and always will be one of the worst NRL hookers around in terms of anything other than tackling. His service is just deplorable and has shown no signs of improving. He picks the ball up, stands up straight, has a look around, then throws it. It puts enormous pressure on the first and second receivers, and puts us on the back foot from the get go.
Copley had a bad night too. Some terrible passes from him that hurt us.
Hunt was a mixed bag. Great individual try, terrible terrible decision to throw that pass which snuffed out any hope we had. His kicking game is still nothing more than wallaces for most of the game - 40m bombs. Best running half in the game, worst kicking half in the game.
