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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3148794, member: 9052"] I think the issue with using Bird as a ball playing lock is that he's used to playing on the edges, even as a 5/8 with the sharks he was also playing almost solely on the right edge... so you'd imagine as a lock he would naturally want to be playing as a second fullback. To me Murray doesn't really play as a ball playing lock... he just plays up tempo through the middle, gets lightning play the balls, provides offloads and is always supporting through the middle on breaks. Plus Murray is a great 1v1 defender so he's no liability in the middle. To me Radley's ball playing is largely just shuffling the ball along to the halves without engaging the defence (ala McGuire), but at times this year he was providing some useful play around the middle... potentially the open play in the middle is helping him out there. I think Bird's best positions would either be at 6 (provided he has a dominant halfback inside him) or in the second row in the same mold that Wade Graham plays for the sharks. [/QUOTE]

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