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Friday Knight Lights wrote:As others have said Kinghorn should absolutely play more first receiver or even second receiver. But I don't see it he has serious lapses at 15 you need to be always switched on at 10. That's why Sexton, Biggar and Farrell are so good. .
Tichtheid wrote:Friday Knight Lights wrote:As others have said Kinghorn should absolutely play more first receiver or even second receiver. But I don't see it he has serious lapses at 15 you need to be always switched on at 10. That's why Sexton, Biggar and Farrell are so good. .
Perhaps, and this is just thinking out loud, maybe he'd benefit from being in a position where he has to be switched on all the time, where he doesn't get the chance to switch off or ponder options.
He has a deceptive pace over five metres, his top end speed is obvious - Toonie said he was the quickest in the Scotland squad last year, but he can tear it up over the short course too. He stood up Nick Evans and left him looking foolish, yeah Evans was the wrong side of 30, but he was still a world class player in his time, and these guys rarely get the TonySpreadbury taken out of them like that
Sometimes you can happen on things, players develop at different rates, if it were up to me I'd like to see Blair given a chance to see if he can cut it at ten now, if not, nothing lost, he can move back to 15.
Tichtheid wrote:Friday Knight Lights wrote:As others have said Kinghorn should absolutely play more first receiver or even second receiver. But I don't see it he has serious lapses at 15 you need to be always switched on at 10. That's why Sexton, Biggar and Farrell are so good. .
Perhaps, and this is just thinking out loud, maybe he'd benefit from being in a position where he has to be switched on all the time, where he doesn't get the chance to switch off or ponder options.
He has a deceptive pace over five metres, his top end speed is obvious - Toonie said he was the quickest in the Scotland squad last year, but he can tear it up over the short course too. He stood up Nick Evans and left him looking foolish, yeah Evans was the wrong side of 30, but he was still a world class player in his time, and these guys rarely get the TonySpreadbury taken out of them like that
Sometimes you can happen on things, players develop at different rates, if it were up to me I'd like to see Blair given a chance to see if he can cut it at ten now, if not, nothing lost, he can move back to 15.
robdinsdale wrote:Tichtheid wrote:Friday Knight Lights wrote:As others have said Kinghorn should absolutely play more first receiver or even second receiver. But I don't see it he has serious lapses at 15 you need to be always switched on at 10. That's why Sexton, Biggar and Farrell are so good. .
Perhaps, and this is just thinking out loud, maybe he'd benefit from being in a position where he has to be switched on all the time, where he doesn't get the chance to switch off or ponder options.
He has a deceptive pace over five metres, his top end speed is obvious - Toonie said he was the quickest in the Scotland squad last year, but he can tear it up over the short course too. He stood up Nick Evans and left him looking foolish, yeah Evans was the wrong side of 30, but he was still a world class player in his time, and these guys rarely get the TonySpreadbury taken out of them like that
Sometimes you can happen on things, players develop at different rates, if it were up to me I'd like to see Blair given a chance to see if he can cut it at ten now, if not, nothing lost, he can move back to 15.
He has also matured and is less prone to the ultra-speculative offload that he used to do too often.
He already tends to have the responsibility of kicking from hand, such as the penalties, but I wonder if his goalkicking would be the main weakness now.
joe soap wrote:Tks. Wasn't convinced myself I had them in the right order!
Point remains, he wasn't moved because of Hastings, he was behind all those guys as a 10. I am certain I saw Kinghorn at 10 though. I thought starting but that could be my memory failing - I do know he was shut and was pulled back to 15.
He is lot more experienced now tbf, but I can't see him ever controlling a game from 10. And a waste of his ability to try to force that
Tichtheid wrote:The goalkicking is probably the easiest thing of all to work on, it's just down to a good coach (Mossie probably) and putting in the hours - he's got the best part of six months to concentrate on it
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