Be interesting to see how we run out.
Not much difference between a front rower and lock if we are playing Manu there. I actually thought Manu defended outside Plum and Plum at lock but it's pretty hard to tell, and with Manu being named at lock I guess Cleary considered Manu his lock and Plum the other front rower.
So with Taylor back, does he keep the same 3 in the middle and play Taylor wide? That might mean Yeo out of the side completely as Cartwright might be considered better coming off the bench than Yeo. With Taylor underdone does Taylor come off the bench? If so he's probably a straight trade for Cartwright. Or maybe Taylor comes in at lock and pushes Manu wide, Cartwright or Yeo to drop.
Our defence seemed to improve when Plum came back and Manu moved into the middle, but then that might be more the result of the opposition, 3 of the 3 games with that make up was against the Sharks without Gallen and Fifita and then other against Manly who are as crap as us in the middle.
Taylor makes a million tackles in the middle but generally not as dominant as Plum and Manu, but really I thik it's a band-aid fix, he's good enough that we should be able to afford playing Taylor in the middle, if we can't then we have real underlying problems.
We're looking better defensively with Manu at lock, but I want Taylor there because Taylor is pretty useful in the middle on attack, has some footwork, can offload, play short passes to forwards and link with backs, and out wide while he's pretty great at shutting the side of the field he's on down in defense, he's been pretty useless in attack.
