If we had been repeatedly caught out playing across the back, and given up goals by doing so I would have agreed, but this wasn't the case. It cannot be set In stone that you play it around at the back to start every move, but if is much better having the ball in your posession than not. Also at this level a longer ball forward to the target man is less likely to be accurate as well, and the ability of the target man makes it more likely he will not keep posession either.
On balance I would rather we tried to play out from the back the majority of times.