Because that is the game plan. He passes to give the speed men as much time as possible to make a break.

It sometimes comes off. I'm happy for him to keep doing it as long as Chester likes it......though my heart of often in my mouth when he does.

dont think so .its because he keeps away from any contact ,with or without the ball

dont think so .its because he keeps away from any contact ,with or without the ball

So do you really think the coaching staff would consistently select a player who shirks physical contact ? Get real !

It does sometimes look like he shirks contact, see every time he has a kick to return or his effort for the Regan Grace try for examples.

Do you not think it could be that the game plan is set up in such a way that certain players do avoid heavy contact? Does Liam Finn routinely run into a 3 man tackle for example, or does he preserve himself by spinning the ball out and setting up a move? There are smaller pivots on the pitch who wouldn't last a full game if they were being smashed by forwards on a regular basis - and most fb's are now acting as pivots - so it seems entirely reasonable that they aren't expected to be involved in big collisions.



To suggest that Scott Grix is in any way a shirker, is just shameful.

You'd have to be extremely thick to not realise that Chris Chester clearly tells Grix to pass to one of the wingers if possible on kick returns since he's been doing it regularly all season. If the coach didn't want him doing it he would have told him by now.

So the next question is this then, why did Max not do this last year/ this year, if it is in a game plan for the full back to avoid any contact?

True but not when there is nothing to be gained, he threw a 10 yard pass to BJB on sunday who got smashed as he was catching the ball. That was in our own twenty and surely not worth the risk.



Personal opinion is that in recent games he looks scared when on the ball, not just kick returns. He seems to have stopped backing himself near the opponents line even when there is a gap. Also some of his defensive efforts have been extremely poor. As I said, watch the Regan Grace try back and have a look at his effort.

Max Jowitt is probably better at returning kicks than Grix is whereas Grix's strengths are in other areas where Max Jowitt is weaker. Would you rather Grix took all the returns in? I wouldn't, MCB and BJB are both faster and better kick returners and it leaves Grix free to start organising the attack.

Because of course the game plan never, ever changes from one season to the next...? In fact, why aren't we still doing 5 drives and a kick like Kear used to do?!

Totally agree. Too many errors over the past few weeks