Quote: Andy Gilder "Because for 25 minutes of the game, your most dangerous player is sat in the dugout.'"
I agree to a certain extent, but having a dangerous player, and giving him the ball twice as much doesn't always result in twice the impact.
Burrows impact is that he is quick agile and elusive, more so than any other player in the league (other than Tomkins). That gap is obviously at its widest when he is fully fresh, and they are fatigued.
Also every tackle he makes, or hit he receives will hurt him more than it does the bigger and stronger blokes
To get the best out of him I think you need to balance the amount of time he's on the pitch, with the relative levels of fatigue to get the best impact