Where Kaz rates in the pecking order is irrelevant, (FWIW wherever that is it's not as high as it should be) hindsight says he was the player needed in that situation.
Skalak doesn't have the 'oh f*** it's him' quality, that the Player of the Month, goal scoring, somersaulting, impossible to...
The one thing Kaz would offer, in that situation, is he'd keep more than one defender back at the halfway line.
There's no doubting he scares to poop out of defenders and irrespective of end product, the opposition have to acknowledge that.
Hemed was out for the count, he was coming off irrespective who came on.
Hindsight, and in fairness recent history, says either a winger and Murphy through the middle or Skalak straight into that position, was the move.
But nevertheless Hemed was being subbed off.
Amazingly even a 'dead on...