D Pearce is a good player who creates a bit of run, and is one of our better kicks over about 30m. He's also one of the very few players capable of getting on the end of a chain of handballs and kicking it 50m into the forward line. The problem with that is that he's more or less useless at hitting a target over that distance.
He drives me nuts on game day, but the reality is, if there was someone better at it than him in the squad, they would be in the team and we would be using them. I always thought that if Mora came good he would play the same role but better, and we could deploy D Pearce more effectively. Then I thought Bennell would take over the reigns.
But no. We are left with D Pearce. Blame Mora's knees and Bennell's calves.
And Barlow. Just because.
