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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3573466, member: 9052"] I'm happy to leave it in the hands of the coaching staff. They might decide that Kobe can bring more value to the starting side, but I think if the decision was made to put him into the 13 and make him the ball playing lock then you're potentially seeing Kobe on the field longer than Patty... because his workload increases at prop and is that really the best thing for the team. Alternatively if they want to start Kobe, then is there any reason he can't just start at prop? 8. Kobe 10. Haas 13. Patty Does that lineup really change anything?? Cows do it with their middles 8. McLean 10. Cotter 13. Lolo We all know that Lolo is effectively a prop for the cows... but they keep giving him the 13 jersey. Kobe brings tons of value off the bench as a middle with his footwork and defence cutting blokes in half. I believe we started Kobe a couple times over the last 2 years and I've felt his strengths were less impactful when having to deal with fresh bodies. I feel like Kobe might move into the Palasia role... where he's the back up ball playing lock when Patty is off the field... and I'd love to see if Kobe can handle the edge as well. We're pretty set with Piakura and Capewell rotating through teh back end of the year, but 1 injury in the second rowers and we're starting to run on fumes again. Patty also just won lock of the year and it's his ball playing and management of the middle third that has been improving year on year... If we pivot over to Kobe as the ball playing long minute lock, there would want to be a bloody good reason for removing Patty from that role. If we're just switching jerseys for the sake of it and Patty will still be the ball player, etc. but with the 8 jersey on, then it's the same scenario as above, but with whoever wearing the 13 having to do the prop's job. It'll be up to the coaching staff to figure out who plays where next year, but for me I think Jensen starting works, because he's shown that he can weather the storm initially before we bring impact from the bench... and to me a bench of Kobe, Willison and Piakura all bring impact and that worked well even when Flegler was here. [/QUOTE]

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