: Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:14 am
Staffs FC wrote:
Agree entirely about Radford - I would take that a stage further and replace your '13' with 'the team'.
I would replace Thorman with Whiting and play Horne at FB if he can play next week. If not then Whiting will have to play FB which he did very well despite not being one. My first priority would always be to remove Thorman from the team. I accept that maybe Rich Whiting hasn't entirely demonstrated a LF workrate but that was the point of my original post - he now needs to be given an opportunity there or SO. Washbrook is not as clever as Whiting in my view and didn't do a great deal earlier in the season to impress however he is bigger. I would be happy if Whiting was given a chance at SO with Berrigan next week. As I say he has the attributes to be the new Crooke and next year he could play with Longy if no other SO is recruited.
I'd like to avoid having Horne at fullback almost as much as I'd like to avoid having Radford at 13 (or, as you say, in the team at all). Whilst Whiting would probably (almost certainly, in fact) offer more at 6 than Horne has been, I think it would be better overall for Whiting to remain at fullback and for Horne to come in alongside Berrigan.