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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2768138, member: 8215"] When was it decided that Ben Hunt is not a halfback? Just because he has a decent, if erratic, running game, doesn't mean he is automatically a five-eighth. Does that make Thurston a #6? He can [I]play[/I] #6, but it doesn't rule him out of being a halfback. I understand that having no running game (Robson, Wallace, Townsend) means you're likely stuck at halfback, but being able to put on some footwork or having a touch of speed doesn't rule you out of it. To say that Hunt & Milford are too similar simply because they both have the ability to run the ball is just a convenient way of making Hunt surplus to requirements. Back to Thurston again, he struggled without Granville there moving the team around and tiring out defenders. Does that mean he's not an organiser now? Should he be stripped of his halfback eligibility? Or do we look further and see that the forwards looked buggered and therefore Thurston wasn't able to use them to his advantage? Hunt can organise - his 2014 alone proved that. With zero help from Hoffman or Barba he was able to win us some tough games and lead us to on overall positive season considering our deficiencies. 2015 cemented it. Of course he isn't perfect. But take $2 million worth of the most experienced players out of any team and of course any areas that are lacking are going to be exposed. Hunt is a halfback that just so happens to have a decent running game as well, let's not turn a fantastic positive in to something that we can hang him with. [/QUOTE]

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