The simple answer to your question....

Cover for the cover.

Whilst Sinfield would clearly be better at 6 than Webb in the short term, we'd have a second rower (JJB, Ablett, Clarkson) at Loose for half the season. Whereas if Webb plays 6, we have a specialist, SL experienced Full Back (BJB) to cover him.


Signing a temporary replacement for an injured player is a ridiculous notion IMO for countless reasons.

What about Ali ,kirkie, huarki and Pitts? Are they not in the backrow equation? Keith didn't look out of place in the pack either. With Watkins a year older we have plenty of options

Clarkson is a loose.

HTH.

So is Ablett.

What's Webb's level of fitness? I'm not convinced he's been right for some time.

Has Webb ever played at 6 for us? Perhaps the Cas game from a couple of years ago where we played all our kids?

Webb has started 105 - 1st grade games for Leeds.

103 - Full-Back
2 - Scrum Half



The Castleford game (28th June 200icon_cool.gif was one of the two he's started at scrum-half (stand-off was Danny Allan) and the other match was V Blackpool (7th May 2010) where Webb helped himself to a handful of tries.

Blackpool this year he played either 6 or 7 but the premise is the same.

He scored 5 tries. Granted the opposition was beyond weak but at least he was in the right place at the right time to score them. You can only play who's put in front of you and he did his job pretty well.

He only played half back for about 20 minutes didn't he? someone got injured I think, but can't remember team, which meant he went back to fullback.

Thanks TVOC and RR...so where does the notion he can or should play 6 for us for half of next season come from?

He's superman, he can play anywhere.

appart from prop he ain't ugly enough!

Where does the notion come from that he can't or shouldn't? That's what you need to be asking yourself my friend! 4) McShane with Buderus playing 80 (or getting spelled for a forward and letting the half backs in at Dummy Half)
5) Buderus has played Half Back on an occasion or two IIRC (never for Leeds), with McShane at Hooker.
6) One of the U20s. Not sure who's our resident 6 if I'm honest, but nobody has set me on fire watching them last season.

Some of those are just me covering all the bases (like suggesting Buderus for example) but IMO I think it boils down to option 1 or 2.

Two key questions...
Who would you rather see at Full Back for half the season? Webb or BJB
Who would you rather see at Loose for half the season? Sinfield or Clarkson

My argument for having Webb at 6, isn't as much about Webb's qualities as a 6. It's more about having Sinfield at 6, would mean we'd have Clarkson at Loose for half the season. As good as the kid is, he isn't a ball playing Loose in the same way Sinfield is so the whole dynamic of the team could suffer. Putting Webb at 6, means we'd have BJB at Full Back, which I would feel much more comfortable with.

It's all opinion, and now you know mine!