Quote: Cherry.Pie "The positions people play for their clubs aren't always their best positions at international level. How many Aussies players have just one position? If a player is best suited to a different position there's no problem with putting them in that position. Sinfield's best England performance was at hooker rather than loose forward.
Players just get forced into specialising in just one position too often which makes things harder to find a team that fits together well at international level. It's just like big players being made into prop forwards even if they have excellent handling and footwork.
There are so many RL players in this country who play in an almost identical way to all the others. In the back row there are 2 second row forwards who are 'all rounders' in that they work hard in defence and try to hit hard while running straight and hard in attack, being good running options and looking for offloads. Then there are 3 players whose only jobs seem to be workhorse back rowers in Heighington, JJB and Wilkin. There's little variation or real threats.'"
Rangi Chase and Kevin Sinfield made for an extremely average halfback pairing against the Welsh. So God alone knows how they'll fare against the Aussies.