When it comes to the spine I think Greeny and
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck are there,
Johnson's the only one that really needs a more consistent output.
The big thing to watch with the storm is the interchange between their best players. The amount of variations they've had of Smith to Cronk to Slater or Smith to Slater are crazy. They can do it around the ruck, on the short side, from scrum plays, attacking pieces or wherever.
For the last few seasons we've started to do that by putting in kicks for
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck to grab onto but we always drop our nuts and stop using it after the first 8-10 rounds for some reason. We also used the old melbourne storm outside-inside play once this year but it was really clunky and we never went back to it (even though it worked).
When we signed
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck I thought for sure that we'd be seeing him running off of
Johnson's shoulder a lot but it just never happened. Something tells me that the players (mostly
Johnson) don't like getting out of their comfort zone and are too scared to try these little set pieces when the games on the line and therefore always revert back to the tried and true (right hand sweep). If that's the case we might be on for some trouble. Hopefully our new coaches can help us get some attacking formations set to utilise our best players.
Watching these guys do this stuff (especially at their age) is both infuriating and but also astounding.