What the team needs to do is have support runners for the early hit ups, and halves trailing players like gillet and blair when they have the ball. That doesnt mean they need offload risky passes in the ruck at their own end or send them hospital passes, but it would put some doubt in the defence just having them there. This in the past is where smaller forwards like glen or potentially arrow would succeed. Blair was great with this sort of running and passing before the line, but for some it has gone out of fashion.
Imagine someone like hunt trailing the front rower with a support runner eg glenn arrow or even a back creating the potential of a second ruck. Itd thin out the defence, and use the advantage of our smaller backs superior fitness to win the forwards battle, instead of making them tackling machines and little else