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| Quote just_browny="just_browny"Not sure how far you go back but I just found one that boasted Maden, Alstead, Smyth and Crouthers (v Leeds 2002). It is easy to get carried away with hyperbole.'"
I did say one of the worst.
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| Quote Dita's Slot Meter="Dita's Slot Meter"I did say one of the worst.
Also I wonder how the total salaries of these 4 from 2002, compare with the total salaries of those 4 from Friday night?'"
Rob Smythe scored some cracking tries! Agree about the rest though - I could pick a better threequarter line in The Kings Head 10 mins before kick off. |
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| [list=[/list Quote Barbedwire="Barbedwire"Playing centre in RL isn’t that different to playing centre in RU. For me I can’t understand why you wouldn’t play your ex England international centre - now fully fit after full pre-season - in his normal position before a young guy who is clearly struggling to step up.'"
For me, I can't understand why our current "coach" sold one of the best SL centres of recent years.
A regular try scorer sold, to accommodate a RU convert.
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| Quote just_browny="just_browny"N but I just found one that boasted Maden, Alstead, Smyth and Crouthers.'"
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| Quote Barbedwire="Barbedwire"[uPlaying centre in RL isn’t that different to playing centre in RU.[/u For me I can’t understand why you wouldn’t play your ex England international centre - now fully fit after full pre-season - in his normal position before a young guy who is clearly struggling to step up.'"
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i'm glad i'm not the only one that thought that, both centre positions(in yawnion) are completely different as i recall. |
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| Quote Fantastic Mr Cat="Fantastic Mr Cat"i'm glad i'm not the only one that thought that, both centre positions(in yawnion) are completely different as i recall.'"
Absolutely, the 2 centre positions in Union are different to each other let alone to RL. |
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| Quote Fantastic Mr Cat="Fantastic Mr Cat"i'm glad i'm not the only one that thought that, both centre positions(in yawnion) are completely different as i recall.'"
Sam Burgess. one of the greatest RL back rowers of all time switches to union and gets played at centre. if positions were that similar why didn't they play him at 8?
RU is nothing like RL.
Burrell looks lost in the back row with ample players on each side of him. There's no way he'd be able to stand at centre and hold his own in RL. |
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Nonetheless, virtually every RU centre who came north slotted into centre at RL with very little bedding in, adjustment or settling in period.
tbf, Burrell was thrown in before he was fit last season, has had a close season then been thrust into the matchday 17. He should have been at Widnes for two months to learn his trade and gain confidence.
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| Quote Barbedwire="Barbedwire"Playing centre in RL isn’t that different to playing centre in RU. For me I can’t understand why you wouldn’t play your ex England international centre - now fully fit after full pre-season - in his normal position before a young guy who is clearly struggling to step up.'"
Couldn’t disagree more. Centre in RU and RL are poles apart. In attack, big man running out wide might make sense, but in defence it’s a different beast. Centres in RL can’t just hit who’s in front of them. Jon Clark said once, about having to half back, that he’d rather make 50 tackles the middle than 10 on an edge as you have to think a lot more. And that is a RL thoroughbred 10 years into a career.
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| Quote morrisseyisawire="morrisseyisawire"Nonetheless, virtually every RU centre who came north slotted into centre at RL with very little bedding in'"
Like who? and recently within the last 10 years? |
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Admittedly going back to the 1990s but one of the finest Warrington centres I've seen was Allan Bateman. Slotted in quickly to RL having been a regular RU centre. He played centre for the British Lions in RU and for Great Britain in RL if I remember correctly.
Its about ability. If you have it you'll adjust in my opinion
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