Because he would have got battered at 13. HTH

And he is even less of a loose.

Maybe Potter wanted someone out on that side of the field who knows how to actually catch a ball and doesn't just stand and watch while the opposition kick, catch and score?

... and even less of a centre.

I remember him playing centre against Quins away last year and looking alright, athough we had a lot of momentum our way. I'm sure I saw him running in the centre channel a couple of times last year, in fact.

Although he has the pace and handling ability to be a centre, for me he is too small, alot of a centres work is defense.

there are multiple reasons - many of them experimental, and certainly not to be tried 25 minutes into a derby game that we are getting hammered in. Take Long off, put an actual scrum half in his position and start to play properly....mucking round with the team and positions during the game is hardly going to build stability and confidence in the team.

Did Wellens and Eastmond know what they were expected to be doing in their respective new positions, or where they just thrown in as some sort of wld experimentation?

I'm sure Wellens played centre for GB a few years back.

Christ, we must have been struggling that year.

Why don't you lot move Pryce to the centres and play Eastmond at SO?

Allegedly because he's a primadonna and would refuse to play in any other position other than stand-off.

Team player then

I remember him playing on the wing for England in 2000 WC but I cant ever remember him playing centre.

Like i said, [uallegedly[/u. Message boards conjecture aside we were going fine with Gilly at centre, and when we've needed someone else to fill in at centre Wheeler has done an adequate job.

Because Eastmond isn't a Stand Off.

Pryce is a World Class Stand Off in Super League and it would make no sense to move him to the centres. You would be weakening one position to stregthen another.

If that was the case, even more desperate!

has he got one yet?

I seem to have a memory if him playing at centre for GB against New Zealand at the Reebok when we got hammered around 98-99.

Could be wrong though.

He hasn't got the balls. Everytime Longy is injured he walks straight back into the team.

Anderson didn't have the balls to do it and neither does Potter.

If it was the 2000 WC game then no, he started on the wing and then he and Radlinski swapped part way through the second half so he was at full back.

I remember there were only two good things about that game, Wellens produced a [iprescottesque[/i run to get out of trouble after fielding a grubber to the in goal, and keith senior not taking a backwards step when scrapping with half the kiwi side. The rest of the game was shocking, and I seem to remeber I paid an awful lot for my tickets.

I'm thinking the GB vs NZ series. In the first test Senior got tackled in the air by Robbie Paul at Huddersfield and should have got a penalty try but didn't and we lost.

I remember that game because i bought a ticket outside the ground off a tout and nearly got arrested inside the ground because it had been stolen an hour earlier from a fan! only reason i didn't get done was because my dad knew 2 of the stewards and because the thief was black.

What ?

I think (hope) he meant it clearly wasn't him and no other meaning in that sentence

Corrected for accuracy.