Quote: Offside Monkey "Myler doesn't strike me as playing a normal scrum half role, to be honest.
I don't think i've seen loads of warrington, but when I have, rather than standing at 1st receiver and organising from there Myler seems to do a lot of his good work running wider.
Am I wrong? I haven't made an effort to watch him in particular and there's normally quite a lot going on when Wire are playing.'"
This season he has developed his game and is now much more of a traditional 7. He often plays at first receiver, with him and Briers alternating (pretty standard for 6&7's these days to be fair). His passing this year has improved out of sight, his long passing is as slick as anything (certainly slicker than any long passing we saw for England last year) and he has developed a really impressive short ball game. See the Saints game at the HJ as an example, when he stands up two Saints players including Graham to set up Wood's try.
He does still play out wide quite often, as he has the pace to do real damage, but he has certainly improved many of his 'traditional' scrum half duties.
However, Myler still needs more playmakers round him, so it would depend on other team selections, and he has no long kicking game to speak of. His short kicking game can be very good though.
The best thing to happen in Myler's career was getting dropped for the Challenge Cup Final. People may say that he is finding it easy playing in a good team, but that is ignoring the fact that his contribution has really played a big part in us becoming a brilliant attacking team.
I'm not saying he should be 7 for England, but he certainly shouldn't be written off either.