Why are people saying this is the team Hasler picked and Pay has to put up with it? Seriously, people acting here as if the roster is absolute trash.
Look at what Pay has to work with.
Australian front row, an international back rower who was being talked about in captaining his state.
An international and premiership winning half back.
A very very solid backline full of players who have represented there country and state.
Poor Dean Pay. Reality is, he was the defensive coach for the Raiders who as the stats showed were a very oridinary team defensively.
What it seems to me is that Pay has been caught up with what happened last season. What do i mean by this? The main thing to come out of last season was how our attack got bagged out. How we looked clueless. It seems that is what he got caught up with. Trying to make us look pretty to avoid that criticism all at the expense of our defense.
He has DECENT cattle to work with.
Under Hasler, even though we would probably not have won these 2 opening games, i will GUARANTEE you we would not have given up 30 + plus in each game.