No I understand what you are suggesting but you A. Have to realise that Walsh currently is struggling for confidence and form on the edge where his skillset is entirely suited to and B. He can’t be everywhere at once.
He is an extra half. Walsh doesn’t make post contact metres and doesn’t do well off being flat-footed, if there isn’t space he is being wasted in that portion of the field. You might get the opportunity you are looking for from Walsh a handful of times a season and the rest of the time him and his skillset is completely wasted position himself there. Just in the same way you don’t want your half to run it on the 4th, you don’t want the bloke who’s presence on the edge is nightmare fuel for opposition even in his poor form roaming through the middle for the majority of the set. He has to be part of the communication loop on the edges and everything. I think it is just too much to add another dimension to his game where he is least likely to be effective. I definitely don’t disagree entirely with your thought process but at the same time it detracts from other areas of his game. He can’t be everywhere and he can’t be roaming the middle long enough to be effective or even necessarily reap the rewards of it. He spends about as much time as he theoretically could and should be.
Someone like a Tedesco can roam the middle for offloads and pick up significant metres and post contact metres regardless of the space. Walsh can’t do that.
In a set Walsh can have a kick return, take a run one out from the ruck, be at first receiver, run it on a short side play, play both sides of the ball, be out the back of shape and a kicker. That requires a lot of movement and communication. You can’t be everywhere at once and you can’t be heavily involved in playmaking as well as being an edge threat and spend all your time just roaming middles for there predominantly ineffective just for the sake of it offloads.
