Quote: barham red "The thing is at Hull would he need to do that, you have a team that are primarily all built like forwards, your wingers take a lot up as do the props and 2nd rowers, Griffin as a centre is also capable of running it in hard. Why do you then need to flog the loose as well, let him play the extra pivot role with more of a freedom to take on the line.
The team top of the league have a relatively light 13 in the shape of Milner and he seemed to be doing ok.'"
They do, but Milner has been conditioned over the years to playing down the middle, and isn't used in the same way, he's not used as a pivot. Conditioning is different to size. You can be the biggest bloke on the pitch, but what use are you if you're blowing after 10mins?
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see Abdul at 13 for Hull, it'd massively improve our attack. I agree with Wilde that by having Shaul at FB, we don't have a 3rd pivot, and our attack suffers for it.
My point was, the way Radford sets up the team, Abdul isn't quite ready to fulfil the 13 role at Hull. Could we change to a ball player loose? Yeh of course.