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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3682438, member: 9052"] Being a bench forward doesn't get the love that it should. They come on as a pair and are playing with the remaining fatigued middle players, typically hooker and lock, so it puts more workload on them in defence and attack to either maintain momentum or have to flip momentum... it also becomes a game within the game, because the two bench middles are coming on at pretty much the same time as the opposition's bench middles. I remember back sometime within the 2015-2017 era there was a season when we had Offa and TPJ coming off the bench and they were the best bench in the league... their ability to come on and maintain or flip momentum was able to turn games. Ever since then I've had a massive appreciation towards good bench middles. To be honest I think the third middle starting with Patty and Payne should be our 4th or even 5th best middle, because I want the guys on the bench to be able to dominate the opposition. It's just overloading having the 3 best middles start the game when everyone is fresh ... there's an entire middle portion of the game where they won't be there. [/QUOTE]

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