Fullback isn’t the issue. Yes Boyd has missed tackles (he slipped against the Tigers but he was the guy pressuring the kicker and then made it back to fullback) but Jesus Christ he is safe as houses under the high ball and 99.99% of the time he takes the right option in attack and throws great passes to the wingers.
Our problem is the amount of money we have invested in a 5/8 who has slowly got worse and worse over the past 4 years. I swear to god he has an IQ of -100 when your talking about closing out games of footy. Our complete lack of direction by our halves cost us a GF in 2015 and it has continued to lose us games since then. We need an old head in there. At the moment I see far more potential in Nikorima then Milford. Milford just runs around like a headless chook in the middle of the field. Milford throws one good pass or gets one repeat set and everyone blows his load. Nikorima’s short passing game is far superior and so is his running game. Milford’s kicking game is better but that’s it.
For the amount of money Milford gets paid he should be having far more positive influence on our games then Nikorima but he simply doesn’t. This guy is probably earning more then Munster and I know who I choose every single day of the week. He needs to lift and lift by a long way before he starts justifying what we are paying him.
The Milford you watch must be a different Milford to the one I see playing for the broncs. In any case, "our complete lack of direction in the halves" has been more than less, a feature of the our attacking structures for years and it is taking Seibold a while to deconstruct and replace with something that works.
Do you honestly believe if you put someone like Munster at 5/8 in our team he would suddenly turns us into the Storm and we would be 5 from 5?
Milford (and every player) plays the way he/they does/do because he/they need to fit into the structures and shapes that are coached. Sure, individual brilliance, or x-factor adds a lot and that can't be coached but still, that doesn't win games - team play does.
For mine, if you put Milf into the Storm it wouldn't take too long for him to learn their way of doing things under Bellamy, and he would tear other sides apart with his footwork and other talents, given the opportunities their shapes and structures would give him.
This sort of change is exactly what I am waiting for at the Broncos as a result of Seibold doing things differently. I am already seeing things changing slowly as Milf and Knik work together to create the opportunities I have seen in the last 2 games which succeeded on a few occasions and failed in others because of poor finishing.
In any case, I have revised my opinion and Boyd is our best option for FB for now, and Milf for 5/8.