In fairness to Ciro, you cannot expect to build a winning culture if you’re chopping and changing the team all the time. He actually made many changes last season, but was between a rock and a hard place with so many injuries and a very mediocre squad.
He eventually got rid of Flanno and Perham. Alamoti wasn’t wanted after showing he isn’t actually first grade quality (he looked average in reggies yesterday) and a few others weren’t re-signed.
You have to give players a decent run to show their stuff and build combinations. It may be different if we had Tracey available all preseason. Ciro has been proven to get a lot of his selections right with most players going well. Salmon has been a bit shit and Taffy about as good as everyone expected, but the rest of his selections (even Hutch) have been proven to be probably correct. We won’t know re: Hutch until we see Sexton or someone else, but besides a few basic errors that any player can be guilty of, he’s been solid and set up spme good tries down the right side.
