As opposed to needing the halfback to do the same?





No it isn't. It's simply knowing starting positions and how the play is expected/likely to unfold and how to react. It doesn't have to be a strict itinerary.



Yes, from a set of known and practiced set of plays with improvisation thrown in. Your argument sounds more like the halfbacks having to teach the players attacking plays on the fly.

Nailed it, IMO. With the very limited public evidence of what Webster will/can offer us, there's not a lot we fans can accurately say on this one. Fingers crossed the club make a good judgment on their better information.

I remember once reading/hearing a theory that when people really excel at something, they often struggle to teach others because they can't get their head around why others find difficulty in doing things that come very easy to them. It can also make them less patient and communicate less clearly, because they know what they mean but it's so natural to them that they don't know how to explain it properly.

I think Bobby Charlton was a good example of this. A world class player but really struggled as a manager.

Look at the great Leeds United side of the 70s. Quite a few had a go at management but only Jack Charlton had any measure of success (Bremner, Clarke, Gray, Yorath, Hunter, Cooper, for example, all failed to set the world alight). Being a great player doesn't equate to becoming a great manager

theres examples of this all over and in all sports - botham, tony adams, maradonna, gazza, lee crooks

How many frickin errors are we going to make? We need to settle down and play the percentages

Wrong thread

I thought that was the type of rugby everybody hated when we did play it.

World class in the bar though !!

yeah just realised i've named a top drinking line up there - any landlord would be pleased to see that gang come through his door

Not when we're winning away from home and seemingly trying to score from every play