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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2783634, member: 8215"] Actually, I'll back that up with reasoning so I don't just come across as a prick: * Oates needs to be on the wing. He's in the top 4 wingers in the country, can finish as good as any of them, has speed, and if he can bulldoze his way to within 8 metres of the line he'll score more often than not. He's had a couple of shaky moments under the high ball but it's a confidence thing and he's working on it. Let's get as long as we can with him, not shorten his career by making him do grunt work. * Ben Hunt is a good halfback. Benji has slowed down to the point where his running game, which has been his career strength, has probably been overtaken by Hunt's. Hunt is missing a top-line kicking game and a bit of cunning, the latter of which Benji can hopefully instill in him. * McCullough is a hooker. He needs to be going low on runners while the (much larger) middle forwards come in high and wrap up the ball. He'll get steamrolled at 13. In fact he got steamrolled repeatedly in the one game he played as #12. And he has very little running game besides 3-4 scoots per 80 minutes. He's a tough fucker, no doubt about it, but doesn't have anywhere near the size to be taking hit-ups. * We finally saw Thaiday at his damaging best out wide. We'd be stupid to throw him in the middle. Again. For the 4th time. * ****, if moving McCullough to lock doesn't weaken our defence, starting a game without Blair will. He is meticulous with all the things that Bennett values and the casual observer never notices. Pressuring kickers. Always being alert for the 1% clean-up tackle. And he's the only defender we've had in a long time that can not only stop a rampaging Bromwich, Klemmer or JWH in their tracks, he'll then dominate them and force them in to a slow play-the-ball. One-on-one. * If having Blair on the bench was purely to add experience, you won't be disappointed with a hungry Dodds and his itchy shoulders. Just needs some ribs to scratch them with. My opinion anyway. [/QUOTE]

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