Quote: rubber duckie "For you then that's OK.
So long as he doesn't break out of that flat back 13 then I'll be happy..'"
You can't judge a player by only 1 set criteria no matter how one sided you want an argument to be. Sure it would be preferable if our fullback wasn't needed to tackle 1 on 1 but when faced with that challenge (which in rugby league is pretty much unavoidable at times) he should be aiming to at least slow the attacker down. Im not just bagging ratchford here, Ratchford has been good there for the most part but last weeks try by hall wasn't great, although I must stress that I appreciate its not fair to just say that it was ratchfords fault given the soft tackle misses before hall came to ratchford.
In all positions decisions make a player look good or bad, players will get lots right but it's always more noticeable when they get it wrong. If the fullback just stood in a defensive line of 13 all the time he would probably be in the right place most of the time but he would (quite rightly) get absolutely pillared for his positioning when we concede lots of 4th and 5th play tries and 40/20's because the space behind our line was wide open! We'd probably also start most of our sets in out own 20 and find points hard to come by.