I was thinking, after I read about Foran coming through and developing as 5/8 that we are going to be in a position in a few years where we have an over abundance of 5/8's in the game.
At the moment we have a complete shortage of genuine 5/8 players, I mean I could name them easily on 1 hand, the rest are just mediocre halves, back rowers or some other form of stop gap playing there.
It seems in our game we see a problem and rush head long into fixing that problem without considering the future in more minute detail. It essentially means that if this starts to happen and we have an over abundance in that position then other positions will suffer.
It has happened time and time again and the current shortage is a direct result of over development of back-rowers and also of the changing shape of the game and the need for size all over the park.
At the moment we have a complete shortage of genuine 5/8 players, I mean I could name them easily on 1 hand, the rest are just mediocre halves, back rowers or some other form of stop gap playing there.
It seems in our game we see a problem and rush head long into fixing that problem without considering the future in more minute detail. It essentially means that if this starts to happen and we have an over abundance in that position then other positions will suffer.
It has happened time and time again and the current shortage is a direct result of over development of back-rowers and also of the changing shape of the game and the need for size all over the park.