Mustafur
State of Origin Captain
Contributor
- Jun 13, 2019
- 10,019
- 14,456
I ask this because Centre seems to be the most vulnerable position defensively on the edge and they are arguably our best 1 to 1 defenders in our team, when any other position covers it, there is a noticeable lack of defence there straight away and it seems to dictate everything about our defensive game.
With a full strength team we are usually the best cover defence team in the game throwing wingers on jams and having our centre hold back for the cover throwing the attacking winger to the line for a turn around, that wingers defensive job is in most cases you would think is doable by a backrower our fastest forwards if needed, in my opinion.
Them playing centre and moving our centres to wing I would argue is making our team worse defensively ten fold, we need our Centres to stay where they are.
If we can have Oates score over 20 tries in a season I think a backrower can play wing, heck Piakura and Riki are probably faster than Oates on a sprint.
With a full strength team we are usually the best cover defence team in the game throwing wingers on jams and having our centre hold back for the cover throwing the attacking winger to the line for a turn around, that wingers defensive job is in most cases you would think is doable by a backrower our fastest forwards if needed, in my opinion.
Them playing centre and moving our centres to wing I would argue is making our team worse defensively ten fold, we need our Centres to stay where they are.
If we can have Oates score over 20 tries in a season I think a backrower can play wing, heck Piakura and Riki are probably faster than Oates on a sprint.