Quote ="t.m.t.b.f."who said anything about a back up?
We need someone who can play alongside Long doing a similar job and also good enough if/when Long is not in the team.
Who else in the squad at present can get the team around the park? No one, which is why weve been in the same predicament the past 3 seasons. The way the game is played and structured nowadays has very little skill apart from halfback play which is where its needed, its all about pace and power.'"
If you think there is very little skill in the game you must not watch many other sports. I think you're generalising cognitive skill as skill overall. Most pro-RL players have the physical skills to do what half-backs can do (i.e. run, step, deceive, pass, etc.) but lack the decision-making ability to be able to do it when it matters most (or to pick out the right skill at all in time).
Tends to be why you find most failed half-backs end up playing as a hooker (a role that has a similar skill-set, but requires far less decisions to be made in a longer period of time to make them).
