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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3678397, member: 9052"] In regards to Staggs vs Cobbo... I think the downside for Cobbo as a centre is his mentality like you say, but in regards to Staggs he's played 121 games now and I think he still lacks in a lot of the general football smarts and skills areas. He can make a 1v1 tackle defensively, but he makes poor defensive decisions a lot of the time.... constantly shooting out to try and tackle the five eight and leaving his winger with 1v3's!! His workrate is pretty poor a lot of the time and his attack near the goal line is becoming gradually ineffective year on year... players are shutting him down 1v1 when that's meant to be his strength. Beyond that he doesn't have some of the weapons that other good centres have in a quick pass to get past a jamming receiver, he doesn't seem to have a flick pass offload, etc. He also uses power and his fend rather than having a step that can beat his man straight up in 1v1... like say a Crichton who can step to get the outside and then offload when the winger is drawn in. Madge being a defensive minded coach will hopefully improve Staggs defence, but I don't think Madge is that great on the other side of the ball. Barrett coming in will likely be great as an overall attack coach, but he's probably more of a halves coach, whereas I think Staggs needs a skills coach... the whole team could probably do with having a skills coach to be honest. On the other hand Cobbo has all the attacking upside in the world and is also pretty solid defensively when he's not mentally fatigued. Cobbo also brings workrate... if we lose Cobbo that would mean we've lost our 3 biggest workhorses in the outside backs year on year (Herbie, Oates and then Cobbo) and the other backs aren't picking up the slack. It was a major issue this year with our yardage sets getting pumped, and this would compound the issue threefold if they don't find replacements. Assuming Cobbo goes 4 of the future back 5 are already taken up with guys that aren't really workhorse outside backs (1. Walsh, 2. Arthars, 3. Staggs, 4. Mariner... 5. TBC)... there's not much room there to improve the yardage game. [/QUOTE]

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