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Message: [QUOTE="Kooly87, post: 3122557, member: 9326"] Granted at the moment we have an unusual circumstance where two Edge Backrowers are out at the same time, but I think three top shelf guys in that role is all most clubs can afford to carry. It's an 80 minute role in all but the rarest of cases now and with the NRL looking to lower interchanges even further next year, 80 minute Edge players will be basically essential for all sides. It's fine to say we can cut a Middle player like Joffa, but in truth, we require a minimum of 5 Middle Forwards every single week (Two Props, One Lock and two Bench Middles), and in some instances we might even play a 6th Middle Forward. Compare that to Backrowers where we really only require two on any given week, and it starts to make sense why we don't carry a number of spare top shelf guys in that position - it's just too hard to have valuable guys who can't be on the field every week if they aren't starting on that edge. The club has Difi and Glenn as specialists, and TPJ as a work in progress, plus a couple of young Edge guys coming up the ranks. That balance is pretty much perfect for the demands of the NRL at this stage I'd say. [/QUOTE]

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