leedsbarmyarmy wrote:
Its not just about size, they are different players, with different skill sets. You use Smith as a starting prop, you are asking him to do more hard carries, which will use more of his energy, probably limiting his minutes.
Yep and I'm saying Smith is effective in the middle anyway, where he plays usually full games and still carries and tackles with high stats. I'm just suggesting using him as a bit of a pack horse (with an offload), whilst allowing O'Connor to play more game time, who has a great engine. This also allows for Ackers to play 80 mins which I think he's capable of, leaving us more rotations for the big bodies against Cats.
I've thought for a while that Ackers is a bit wasted in 50 min spells trying to give O'Connor game time. Jarrod has put a fair bit of size on over the past couple of years, I think he could slot into the back row more now.
There's an argument to select Ruan again, but not for 7 mins please RS... hopefully I'm wrong anyway and Mik will start at prop again.
