Walker the tagger

[murphster]

Setanta is lost when playing back. Has no idea what he is doing as a defender. Lance is a stop gap measure. He is not a key defender and is not the long term solution to CHB in the future.

I would like to see Walker play wing and then drop back in the defensive 50 and help out and run the ball out. That way he is not going to be dragged back to the goal square but still gets to sweep back there and be the outlet for rebound. Then as we get our structure right over the next few years we can look at pushing AW back as a half back flanker who is very attacking. Under those cirumstances he would not be covering for unaccountable player and we would have 3 quality talls as defenders.
I would only push him back if he was not winning enough of the ball on the wing in the next few years. I see him as a wing who will develop the inside part of his game. He has fantastic hands in close and does not fumble and his handballing under pressure is a feature in congestion.

2006 : 75% wing, 25% onball of gametime.
2008 : 25% wing, 75% onball

is how I would manage him.

Great set of posts Mojo some of your finest work, your logic is impecable and i totally agree with all you've said especially regarding Tex.