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Message: [QUOTE="WASSHHH, post: 3350552, member: 9424"] Does it matter who you compare? You’ll go a long, long way to find two centres who play in the same team and play the same way. But that’s not the point. To use the Broncos as an example. Neither Hodges nor Tate had much of a passing game when they came into grade as centres. They ran first, like most centres. Like Herbie does. What they did have though, was some pretty spectacular players around them who could mask the areas of their game that needed work. Herbie doesn’t have a Lockyer, a Priddis, a Tuquiri, a Smith, a Webcke or a Tallis around him to help develop his game. He is also not Staggs. Staggs is the most destructive centre since Inglis (or maybe Latrell). He is a rare player. His ability to shrug off or barge over defenders gives him more room to ball play because the defence is so worried about him. Put Staggs in any backline and he will do what he does. Herbie is a Tate, not an Inglis. Tate played centre very well, indeed world class. He only got shifted to the wing outside Hodges / Inglis, the 2 best centres of their generation. [/QUOTE]

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