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Message: [QUOTE="Ari Gold, post: 2285662, member: 1917"] Glenn at lock and Gillett as a second rower, and I'm actually quite happy for it to happen this year. Thaiday should be moved to prop, and failing that, Parker should drop to the bench. Over the last few seasons Parker and Thaiday have merged into the same hard working, generic kind of forward. Thaiday is the superior and runs harder, but both basically take runs wide of the ruck without really looking to offload the ball. They both also have this annoying tendency to take their runs into other people's channels. Gus mentioned it on Friday with Thaiday into Lockyer, but Parker is just as bad. He's constantly running diagonally into Folau's/Hodge's space. Furthermore, both have a tendency to take the ball and run it into that space, rather than pass it to the outside man. Potentially promising plays frequently break down when these two take a run instead of passing it. It's ok if they are looking to draw men in and offload it, but neither do, and even if successful, it would be rather ineffective given the receiver of the offload would have nowhere to go, as the offloader has just run into their space! Both Parker and Thaiday as backrowers at the same time would be murder to our edge play, and should be avoided at all times when Gillett and Glenn are both available. [/QUOTE]

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