Quote ="jonh"1 thing I don’t get is the perception that he isn’t a centre.
He played all of his junior rugby at centre, made his breakthrough at Fev as a wing then moved to centre and was signed by Leeds as a centre as a long term replacement for Keith Senior.
His first season at Leeds was at centre and he only moved to fullback when the Webb picked up an injury.
When he moved to the NRL with Penrith he played as a wing/centre.
If Webb hadn’t been injured he would never have played fullback. This clearly became a very good position for him and one he made his own but he still has bags of centre experience.
Given his loss of pace the move back to centre was a natural move for him and for me particularly positionally that experience as a centre hasn’t been lost to him.'"
A very good post about Zak and pretty much bang on with what I was told John
I was told at the time that we initially signed Zak ( by a person within the club) that they initially singed him to play on the wing as he was only about 11 or 12 stone wet through, in order to get him used to playing SL before moving him to centre to replace Senior.
But that the club were also aware that Webb was coming to the back end of his career and that they could also see him being a replacement for Webb too
Either way the Rhinos needed either a 1 or a 4 to replace Senior or Webb
Zak was sensational for Leeds and Cas at 1 and was on a par with Sam Tomkins although they both had very different skill sets.
I honestly believe that the Rhinos and Cas both got the best of Zak whilst he was at his peak but that you guys have also got a very good player who looks to have settled down at Wigan
