Quote ="B0NES"Rankin would be much quicker than Abdul around the ruck area , Abdul is way to big to be anyway near 9 . And they were 12 other players on the pitch against Leeds .'"
Don't agree, Cunningham and Newton seemed to do OK,not sure what you are basing Rankin being faster on, it's about distribution and decision making at hooked, which Abdul is better at than Rankin, if it's about pace, then let's play Shaul or Naughton there.
The momentum changed when Rankin went to hooker and they scored there first try from poor defence around the ruck, they were plenty of players who were also poor that half, but Rankin looked really poor there.
Personally I'd have Cunningham there, but Radford obviously doesn't rate him.
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