Quote: Twentyman "I agree about a club like St Helens needing more than a scrapper at halfback. It's a bit like when we had Hooper...but we were ok then because we had other pivots like Long, Martyn, Sculthorpe etc
I think Burns is more than a scrapper, but for whatever reason it's not quite happening for him in the 'dazzling halfback' department. Maybe he's just past it in a sense I don't know but he never shy's away from graft, and he brings a real nasty streak that we lack elsewhere.'"
Cooper was a bit of a scrapper as well, if you have a good scrum half with good ball skills and set plays then its not really necessary for the stand off to be the same. Burns has a pretty decent passing game, supports well, gets involved and doesn't go missing. He's doing a lot of running about and over doing it because him and Walshy haven't got there partnership and combinations going, its making him look ineffective.