I don't think its possible to go onto a thread and not see someone complain about Daniel Wagon playing at five-eighth. It's been said about a million times that Wagon despite wearing number six is playing lock. Cayless plays second receiver more often than Wagon does! So when are people going to get over it??
The issue then gets down to the fact do we want a traditional five-eighth and right now, I'd say no thank you. Why play a game based on spreading the ball to the outside back when the three quarters are the team's glaring weakness. Ask yourself this. There's 1 minute left in the game and we've got one throw of the dice left, do you want to rely on Junior Langi to make a break or would you prefer to see Hindy or Cayless bust them open. Give me Hindy or Cayless any time. We have the best attacking forwards of any team in the competition so its natural that a lot of our playmaking needs to go through dummy half and first receiver. When there is a chance out wide Morris drops back into the attacking line and plays that five-eighth role.
I definitely don't want to see Dykes at five-eighth. Almost every break he has made has been through the centre of the ruck and his unpredictability has been his strength. When he gets out wide he tends to confuse everyone including his team mates.
I've yet to hear one good argument why we need to change this style of play. We do after all have the third best attack in the comp and although we only scored 14 last week, we should have scored at least double that..
All this said, I think its imperitive we have another attacking backline option come off the bench. Whether its Webster, Thorman or Witt I don't care, but I think Smith needs that option to take some pressure of Dykes when needed.
The issue then gets down to the fact do we want a traditional five-eighth and right now, I'd say no thank you. Why play a game based on spreading the ball to the outside back when the three quarters are the team's glaring weakness. Ask yourself this. There's 1 minute left in the game and we've got one throw of the dice left, do you want to rely on Junior Langi to make a break or would you prefer to see Hindy or Cayless bust them open. Give me Hindy or Cayless any time. We have the best attacking forwards of any team in the competition so its natural that a lot of our playmaking needs to go through dummy half and first receiver. When there is a chance out wide Morris drops back into the attacking line and plays that five-eighth role.
I definitely don't want to see Dykes at five-eighth. Almost every break he has made has been through the centre of the ruck and his unpredictability has been his strength. When he gets out wide he tends to confuse everyone including his team mates.
I've yet to hear one good argument why we need to change this style of play. We do after all have the third best attack in the comp and although we only scored 14 last week, we should have scored at least double that..
All this said, I think its imperitive we have another attacking backline option come off the bench. Whether its Webster, Thorman or Witt I don't care, but I think Smith needs that option to take some pressure of Dykes when needed.