Ewings first real season at this level was always going to be hard for him to matain that excellent level he started at
Injuries to the back four and GK changes meaning that back 5 has never been settled and conceded to often and too easily
loss of TSF, Farrell and dare I say it Carlton who all often found the net, whilst i know the latter meant that P Jones could come in i do think had either of the other 2 still have been here we may be putting teams to bed a little easier.
Then as you mention this insistence on passing sideways and backwards which is fine IF there was at least an attempt to penetrate the opposition defence and get a shot away which for a fair while now there doesn’t seem to have been.