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Message: [QUOTE="bazza, post: 3161372, member: 8440"] Evolving it was not. Changing, perhaps. For the better, not quite. Bennett tried to turn a fleet-footed, agile and instinctive runner of the ball, into an overweight, organising and game managing type half, instead of going out an buying one. Completely stripped him of any of the attributes that made him a good player. With the added weight he has put on, he now lacks any of that explosive speed and his footwork is no longer effective. He was never allowed the chance to learn the game at his own pace, and it's ruined his development. He may have learnt to become a controlling half, similar to the way Benji has developed that over the years, but forcing it on him at such an early stage of his career, was the wrong play. We lost some valuable years of having a dynamic running half by trying to turn him into a halfback. Now we are stuck with someone who is not good enough to be a game managing half, simply because it is unnatural for him, and in the process we have lost the only positive attributes he would otherwise bring to a football team. [/QUOTE]

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