The fullback revolution

[Mustafur]

They'll always mention it, especially if the player is struggling.

"Wellll, it wasn't all smooth sailing straight away when Wayne moved Locky to the halves"

FFS, I swear it came up when O'Brien tried to shift Ponga.

Now I will say to be as fair as possible Munster could be in that question(and is clearly the one who has come closest to him), But Lockyer was the Playmaking half the entire time he moved there(essentially being a 7 but with a 6 on his back, unless you somehow think Shane Perry was the one controlling our team in 2006).

It is the hardest position in the game to get right(and the reason the game lacks them)and is rarely if ever done by one that wasn't a 7 their entire career, yet Lockyer did it from a junior 6 background became the best fullback in the game then moved to the halves to do it.

 

[Harry Sack]

Now I will say to be as fair as possible Munster could be in that question(and is clearly the one who has come closest to him), But Lockyer was the Playmaking half the entire time he moved there(essentially being a 7 but with a 6 on his back, unless you somehow think Shane Perry was the one controlling our team in 2006).

It is the hardest position in the game to get right(and the reason the game lacks them)and is rarely if ever done by one that wasn't a 7 their entire career, yet Lockyer did it from a junior 6 background became the best fullback in the game then moved to the halves to do it.

On that actually, I heard a pod cast or maybe something on Sen talking about how a team has "Never won a premiership without a superstar halfback" I laughed.

Now full disclosure, they could have obviously misspoken and actually meant "superstar half" given how close the roles have become in recent years. I still giggled though. Shane "fridge" Perry is obviously a superstar halfback...and I'm comfortable with that.

 

[Mustafur]

On that actually, I heard a pod cast or maybe something on Sen talking about how a team has "Never won a premiership without a superstar halfback" I laughed.

Now full disclosure, they could have obviously misspoken and actually meant "superstar half" given how close the roles have become in recent years. I still giggled though. Shane "fridge" Perry is obviously a superstar halfback...and I'm comfortable with that.

To be fair they are right though(technically), Lockyer was always playing as a 7 in the Halves the outlier being he had the 6 on his back but if you look at his main highlights from the position it basically covers both sides equally, maybe it was just a Bennett trick for him to have the number who knows, but we are kidding ourselves if we genuinely think he was playing as a proper Five Eighth, He was the real Halfback, the False 7 before Soccer made the False 9 cool with Messi, the only main difference from him and other 7s was he was defending on the left like a 6(but Halves are in the same position defensively on both sides).

Combine that with Berrigan being a Hooker defending at Centre, the stuff we were doing in 2006 is that innovative no one to this day can match, and surprised no one else has done given it actually resulted in the Grand Prize.