Bomber is still playing our lock's role as a replacement Gal... Williams and Talakai/Rudolph (can't quite tell how that rotation has been working, but looks like Rudolph plays 13 when Talakai comes on) used as metre eaters.
I think Wadeo in the '90s lock mould (the Fittler, Langmack, ageing Jason Smith haha) sounds more exciting than it is...Johnson and Moylan are constantly looking for runners and they're not quite there yet, adding Wade in as a roaming ball player when we still haven't learned to hit holes is a recipe for even more inside balls. The Ramien try on the weekend running of Moylan in broken play was almost a f**ken disaster if he didn't get the hint and hit that gap.
(I guess this was mentioned up-thread with Graham and Moylan cluttering the left side... Graham maybe needs to evolve to hit holes and pop balls to Duges)
We're getting there, but I'd stick with the structures and style we're only just beginning to get used to and develop before throwing more spanners in the works.
That's actually a pretty sensible post, way too sensible for here, with some valid points. Still I am going to try and counteract it.
Every year every NRL team tries to copy what the best team is doing, in this case, The Roosters. They have had their lock forward, Radley, playing as a second 5/8. Not in all plays but as a difference to the norm. Manly do it with Jake T and South's do it with Murray. I'm sure others are trying to do it but may be they just dont have the cattle, we do in Wade.
I agree it may be too hard for them at this point but having the opposition not knowing who is the creator, in our case we have Moyza, then SJ, hopefully soon we have young Brails doing it more, plus a sometimes Chad, and I mean very little sometimes. Add Wado into that in the future and we definitely have the capability to run riot, especially with the 3/4's we have.
Of course none of this works until we get our defence right, which is way more of a problem then our attack.
Cheers.
