Quote: Juan Cornetto "I agree with you regarding Ferris, despite his experience he currently looks slow and ineffectual and lacks discipline. Briscoe has totally lost the plot and needs taking out of the firing line. Wing these days is a more specialised and important position that centre and for that reason I would move Watkins there where in fact he could have more opportunity to run with the ball.
So Sutcliffe and Keinhorst in the centres with Ward given a role to stiffen up the right side from second row.'"
I appreciate that Ferres has had a number of serious injuries and according to an interview he was unable to get into the condition that he wanted to to play at his optimum. Returning to the training with the Yorkshire regiment ..years ago when Yorkshire Carnegie was Leeds Carnegie , if I recall they did pre season training with them one year..as it was noted they were not so fit...they did it as prior to that one year the Rhinos had done it. So would give that intensity needed. Mind shape should not be misjudged because if you look at Whiteley in U19s, he is built naturally heavy boned ..but he can shift..I would though question the players diet, if you go on twitter there are frequently posts with players in some fast food place which to me doesn't seem right for a modern sportsman. Some times players seem out of puff but then another they have a blinder..take Garbutt coming of bench against Wakey ,according to stats he made 223m , he done a 191m but most around 170 or below, Cuthbo had a few in 190...but looked at Zak when we played Cas he made 203m , so was impressed by Garbutt...yet other times the metres made is below 100. I would not be averse to the squad using similar training and conditioning methods to those used by the WRU squad of 2011, who were at peak fitness ( some argue they should have been in finals). They trained using Hyperbaric oxygen therapy..after spending time in the chambers it enabled them to train longer and increased their fitness levels. So hopefully that would aid consistency.
No to playing Watkins on wing...against playing too many players out of position. As someone else mentioned he is our best centre not only that at his best world class...but I see your view that he has not had so many opportunities to score. Then as JP said when he played for Leeds, the squad just need to ensure they get the ball to him as much as possible .
I would still wish Golding to play at FB but if Briscoe is not be in match 17, then I think Golding is capable of playing on wing ,did well there 2016 on occasions he scored. I would then move Sutty to FB, who btw as best stats for that position ,including over Walker.
