Don't really feel like defending him, but the team he put out on Saturday was pretty much the one we all wanted. We wanted skippy and Laing dropped, and knew that hammell would miss out on the plastic. He brought in Laing for Kennedy in the previous game because of injury.
With fletcher injured the forward line is a pick 2 out of 3 scenario, skippy has been poor so we put out he other two. So I don't think the case is that he doesn't know his best team, other than Taylor he seems to have put out the best XI available each week, I think it is more that he doesn't know how to use his best XI available.
He's set to have Pearson and fletcher back soon, so if he can't show improvement with his full squad available then we're in trouble.