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Message: [QUOTE="GCBRONCO, post: 2636009, member: 1808"] [b]Re: [RUMOUR] Ben Barba to Cronulla[/b] The thing with Lockyer is 5/8th was his natural position and when he made his debut he was playing mostly as an interchange playmaker and when he started it was largely at 5/8th, even in his second season Willie Carne and Robbie Ross were sharing responsibilities at fullback, it wasn't until 1997 did you see Lockyer shifted to fullback and that was largely because O'Neill was sacked, Carne was told by the club he was unwanted and went to Union and Ross wanted to stay but had already made an agreement to join the Mariners in 1997, it was a move made more out of necessity rather then his more suited position, I'm sure if Kevin Walters wasn't in the picture Lockyer was next in line. I think it's just the perfect example of how much of a talent Lockyer was and I tend to think of the two Milford is actually more adaptable then Barba(even more so with the problems Barba is going to have to overcome on and off the field before he even comes close to the form on 2012) would be and I agree with Lockyer's assessment of Milford, long term I see Milford's future lying in at 5/8th alongside Hunt, I have more confidence in those two as being our primary halve's combination and as such we are presented with the perfect opportunity to build us a long term halves combination. Ideally I'd have Barba remain at fullback, trim him down, build up his confidence at fullback and focus on that, as for Boyd I'm sure if(unlikely) Bennett said to him his going to play wing he would happily comply because if there's one thing you can be certain with Boyd it's that, but from what Bennett has said and what has been in the media it's very much Boyd at fullback, where that leaves Barba is anyone's guess really. I'm not sold on Boyd at fullback(but I'm not going to lose sleep over it either), I'd definitely play him on the wing and give Barba that opportunity to do so, at least then people can't claim he didn't get a fair shot too. [/QUOTE]

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