So, with this news leak I think we have another insight into the webster-mcfadden supremacy - these guys are doing business and playing it confidently as it can only mean that
Boyd is the chosen 7, that's his position, hasn't played effectively anywhere else... whereas
Metcalf is technically more versatile ... I've sort of been thinking about this for a while cos for all
Webby's clarity and no bs approach to publicly discussing the team and his game plans he also loves a change up on the team list on game day and never definitely reveals what his 'kpis' or success measures are... tricky bastard our coach and I love it, it's how it should be... let the success speak for itself when it comes on the field.
the moves that got me thinking about this approach actually are around the centre position -
Webby knew a couple of years ago it was a problem area and one that he wanted to turn around as an opportunity into a strength - i.e. the earlier failed experiment of Roger to centre... moving forward in time the mantra coach repeated when it was sudden death was that they simply had to have 'our best players on the field', so for the semi- he put
Leka at centre - that didn't exactly work out either but it wasn't a complete bust so come this year when
cnk IS a bust there he moves Rog back and it fucking starts working... turns out, in the syntax of this progression, that
RTS 2026 is the centre that webby wanted
Leka to be...
It's not exactly the same with
Boyd to 7, it's more that seeing a weak position after
SJ left demanded a number of different options - and the one we seem to be landing on is the square running classic distributor 7, as opposed to the fleet footed support playing running half... but you'd be lying if you said that this could have been foreseen at the end of last year... so fair play to these guys, they have a system and a process and it looks to be working more often than it doesn't ...