It makes perfect sense to move defensive liability Lee Smith to full back.

As a point of order. Full backs generally make less tackles in a game than centres. If he can take the ball up well and beat the first man, then good on him. I don't get to watch SL. So you tell me if Smith can do that.

He does, and he did a fair job on Senior in the GF, but NZ have both the size and pace that is lacking in SL.

I honestly don't see NZ as THAT brilliant.
They have the structures that NRL coaching gives you but on a player to player comparison I don't think there's much in it and we have better depth.

How can you start off with that, then talk about changing pretty much the entire team apart from 4 players?!

Compare Benji Marshall to Danny McGuire

While I appreciate that Smith was poor, name one player who wouldn't be made to look like a liability against Inglis in that first half.

Paul Sykes

Lance Hohaha??
Thomas Leuleui??
Nathan Fien??
Eastwood??
Lima, Harrison and so on all very ordinary players and we have better in their positions. Thats without talking about their players who have about 5 rep caps between them.

A bit like the Saints v Bulls GF



At least Leeds can develop their own half backs unlike Saints who seem to rely on on other clubs doing the spade work - Widnes and Bradford if I am not mistaken

You aren't serious - let's compare a few players

Blair v Sinfield
Matai v Smith/Bridge/Eastmond
Marshall v Tomkins
Luke v Roby
Sau v Shenton
Eastwood v Westwood

Do you want to keep going

If the Kiwis come with any kind of power game as they did against the Aussies we could be feeling the pain!!

Im assuming you're a leeds fan, you'd happily trade Sinfield for Blair tomorrow? ... ... ... ... thought so.
Issac Luke won't start for NZ Leuleui does, if any Wigan fan wouldnt trade him for Roby I'd question what they've been putting in their cereal.

Marshall's playing 6, therefore he'd be up against McGuire, fair enough but no suprises there, Tomkins or Nathan Fien? Come on...
Sau's a strong bloke but Shenton will be better, Matai I'll give you and Eastwood will become a much better player than Westwood.

Lets compare a few more..
Burgess or Lima
Ellis or Harrison
Peacock or Pritchard
need we go on..

My point was there wasn't much in it and we have better depth, considering we have players like Senior, Pryce, Gleeson, Burrow, Brough that are better than their current rivals for the England Jersey I reckon that's true too. People are bigging NZ up to much better than they are when in reality they've caught Oz on a couple of off days and out enthused them