out of position nrl players

Discussion in 'The Cesspit: Rugby League Discussion' started by Julian, May 29, 2013.

  1. Julian BJ Taylor

    name them. obviously include the position they mainly play and where you think they're better suited.

    jarrod Croker. played all of his first grade at centre but I'm convinced he's a winger. has all the attributes for a modern day flanker: good under the high ball, great speed and footwork, he's the perfect size....tall and rangy and his best attacking play comes in broken play.

    he really struggles with drawing players and ends up being tackled into touch (not engaging the winger to come in and put his centre away) and this move would enable him some broken field play at times on kick returns. just makes so much sense to me, especially at canberra where he should be the 3rd/4th choice centre anyway at this point.

    because of modern opinions I just have to add that I still think he's a really good player, he's just more suited to the wing than centre.
     
  2. Cribbage RG Cribb

    Joel Edwards.

    His best positions:

    1. Lock
    2. Prop
    3. Daylight
    4. Second row

    I really rate him too so I was annoyed that it was Canberra who signed him because they were never going to be able to fit him into the middle third.

    And a third player from Canberra to complete the hat-trick: Joel Thompson. We were talking about it in the other thread. If you watch him play centre he looks like he'd be a world class second rower but it's just not happening. Was far better when he actually did play centre. Get him back there.
     
  3. Julian BJ Taylor

    he's not going back to centre at canberra though.
     
  4. Julian BJ Taylor

    you agree on the Croker summary cribb. there's nothing about him that indicates he wouldn't be a really good winger IMO. problem is modern centres would take a move to the wing as an insult when it shouldn't be.
     
  5. Julian BJ Taylor

    Trent Merrin.

    cribb has raged about de belin....him playing 80 at lock would make Merrins job so much easier just playing prop IMO.
     
  6. Cribbage RG Cribb

    For a more controversial one:

    James Maloney

    He's obviously a pretty fucking good half/five-eighth, at club level anyway, but the more I see him play, the more I think he'd be ideally suited to fullback in attack. He's one of the best support players in the game, is light on his feet, has great acceleration and is far more comfortable ball-playing from two or three wide of the ruck. I saw him fill in there mid-game a couple of times for the Warriors last year on the fly when Locke got injured nad he looked really good there too. He lacks the genuine ball-playing at first receiver to be a real top notch half IMO and his best combinations with second rowers on his side of the field have always come as a support player with an offloading second rower, rather than as the guy throwing a pass for a hole-runner. But I think he has the tools to be a really, really good fullback.

    Obviously fullback is very much a specialist position and he'd need to learn and work on some aspects of the defensive side of the position there over an off-season or something.. I don't think you could actually just throw him in there next week and expect reliability. But I think his natural skills learn more towards the position in modern rugby league than they do the halves.
     
  7. Cribbage RG Cribb

    Indeed. Edwards isn't going to play middle third either. I'm not really making club-specific suggestions; just listing players who I think would be more effective in other spots.
     
  8. Cribbage RG Cribb

    Yeah, I've said I thought Croker was a winger before. He's a below average NRL centre but he'd be a silver or gold tier winger currently. Unlike my other two Canberra players it'd actually make heaps of sense for him to move to his rightful spot, with with Ferguson and Wighton in the centres.
     
  9. Cribbage RG Cribb

    Curtis Sironen

    He's a second rower.

    The perfect sort of second rower to have if you want to play left/right halves and a running fullback like Tedesco too. But nah lets play him at halfback.
     
  10. Cribbage RG Cribb

    Kurt Gidley

    Perhaps a bit of an obvious one but no matter how many different positions Bennett plays him in, he's still a fullback and he never plays there.
     
  11. Cribbage RG Cribb

    Darcy Lussick

    He may be one day, but he's not a front rower yet. He's a damaging edge runner. His best games for Manly all came when they stuck him on the right edge off the bench and it was no coincidence.
     
  12. Cribbage RG Cribb

    Ryan Hinchcliffe and Nathan Peats

    Hookers who come off the bench (or start sometimes) and play lock because they can defend the middle of the ruck, scoot and pass.
     
  13. Cribbage RG Cribb

    Josh Reynolds

    He was actually a real organising game manager at NSW Cup level but he's clearly not got the composure or selflessness to do that at NRL level. I think he fits the "right half" role for the Dogs well enough because unlike most other split halves combinations in the comp he actually does spend most his time two wide, like a more traditional five-eighth - except running off front rowers running than the halfback.

    I think if you tried to play him in the halves for most other sides he'd flop a bit. He'd go well at hooker anywhere though.
     
  14. Julian BJ Taylor

    Yeah was going to post this but thought he's playing the position that suits him and his club most at the moment though.
     
  15. Cribbage RG Cribb

    Yeah, most of the blokes I've posted I wouldn't actually move, tbh. They're playing out of position either because there's someone better in their position at their club or their club plays with a strange structure.

    Croker and Sironen should straight up move though.
     
  16. Cribbage RG Cribb

    Paul Gallen

    I don't think it really matters whether he plays lock or prop, but he spends part of each game on the left edge which is absurd, and even when he's not actually supposed to be on the left edge he drifts wide late in the count and gets in the way. The usage of him at club level in the last season and a half has been ridiculous.
     
  17. Cribbage RG Cribb

    Joseph Paulo

    He plays lock.

    Just no.

    He should be in the second row, or possibly even the halves in Parramatta's team. The fact that Parramatta don't really have a lock at all is a problem in general though.
     
  18. Mr Fourex MR Fourex

    Peter Wallace

    is not a halfback's arsehole.

    That said, he'd make a very good no.9

    or bench player IMO.
     
  19. Old Mate M Perry

    Peter Wallace

    Should be a state of Origin halfback/captain but instead plays halfback for the Broncos, cunt isn't even captaining his own side FFS.
     
  20. Maroon_Faithful M Faithful

    Cedrick (Son Of God) Lee. He's a serviceable winger but obviously has the passing game of a centre. I think once he makes a name for himself, perhaps after breaking into rep footy in a few years, he'll move in-field ala Ingis. He could be a decent fullback too but I'm not sure if he has the selective cut-out in his game. He's more a one-handed offload type player who can draw in his mark and find the outside man.
     

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