Quote ="barham red"So in essence I was correct, you agree if London had Thurston at 7 and an in his prime Lockyer at 6 they probably wouldn't have won 6 titles or 2 CC's. SO unless you're saying that HB pairing wouldn't be the best then it proves you can have the worlds best HB pairing and not win anything.
Unless you have good backs and a good pack adding to good HB's then you wont win things. The pack lay the platform, the backs run the lines, yes you need the backs to finish it but the team that wins things doesn't necessarily have the best pairing.'"
Apparently you weren't asking questions so not sure I should respond (or would that be pedantic!!) but I guess deep down I'm agreeing with you with an added caveat that you can have the best pack and set of backs but without the half backs to bring it all together you won't win jack. A world class halfback will lift a team to greater heights, on his own, than a world class prop would. Thinking Peter Sterling at Hull and Brett Kenny at Wigan in relation to Les Boyd at Warrington
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