I think people sometimes confuse individual effort with capability to get a group working together. A lot of fans see Galvins stats and high involvement and are convinced he is playing well. You then ask them if that is the case, why is our attack so poor? The answers always blame others…what they are saying is that this team is largely made up by seasoned first graders who don’t know what they are doing, yet a kid straight out of school does. If you watch him closely though, he throws 100 darts at the board per game with maybe 4 or 5 actually hitting the scoring section. Most of them hit the bricks.
Players like Strange facilitate the effective play of their outside backs far better as they are more structured in their dedication to the game plan. This is also why they have better results.
I understand what you're saying.
It's hard to find metrics on synchronicity of backline play, but try assists and linebreaks assists at least in part provide an insight to how well a play maker is bringing others into the play through their own involvement.
Personally, I don't think it matters how many darts he throws, the outcome is all that matters. Provided he is facilitating points to a satisfactory (or beyond) level and not putting the team under pressure with too many regular poor options as well (kicking dead, running his men out of space or over the sideline, hospital balls leading to errors, etc) and therefore costing us field position/ momentum/ points, then I think he doing his fair share.
You ask why the attack has been so poor; for the majority of the season, it certainly was and he should shoulder his share of the blame for that.
Poor options/decision making from all halves, constant backline/halves rotations due to injury/suspension, poor discipline putting us under fatigue pressure early in games each week, structurally not in sync (key point) and execution is important; I don't have a metric, but there was a run of games earlier in the season where we dropped the ball on or over the line at least once for weeks on end.
Why was execution so poor? A lack of experience I'd say, thrown in with what I suspect is a lack of copious, at speed, under fatigue drill work, which is required to be able to nail those moments. As opposed to say a more devil-may-care/ play-what-you-see kinda deal, that I suspect Benji had tried to encourage early, which was verifiably average in results.
Though it's multifaceted and I think as the year has gone on, our attack has looked better and Galvin has continued to provide value on the attacking side of the ball to match that improvement.
