I appreciate that Kevin Brown may not be everyone's idea of a great stand-off (he certainly isn't mine!) but I find myself in the unusual position of agreeing with FTV, whose post I thought was excellent.
As well though as the selection of Sean at standoff being wrong in pure rugby terms its also very unfair to Lockers.
Playing him out of position is almost inevitably going to result in more Lockers bashing on this board, this site and elsewhere.
Andy Farrell was played out of position far too often and is therefore unfairly criticised for not having done well enough at international level to justify his status as the greatest British player of his generation.
Following the inevitable hammering at the hands of the Aussies on Sunday Sean will be scapegoated as not being international class. As a result of this selection Sean will like Faz before him attract a lot of flak from the idiots in the RL media and the even bigger idiots that pillory Lockers on this board (I actually saw one post from an utter cretin that accused Lockers of "not turning up" in the first test against NZ, even though the lad made 40 tackles - you just couldn't make it up!
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I expect Lockers, like Faz before him, will take one for the team and give his usual 110%, though that makes this even more wrong.
At times I despair for RL, though perhaps the fact that I'm in agreement for once with FTV shows that progress is possible!
