Re: Employment in Cas : Fri Feb 27, 2015 7:57 pm  

leeds owl wrote:

My first impression of our team this year is that it is stronger without Rob playing. It's not a knee jerk 6 points from 6 job, it's just an overall feeling that we move forward and look tighter and more cohesive with Aiton at hooker. Last night was a big test for us, and it's the first to me we passed the particular test in 4 years.

I agree, the balance and workload seems much better. In attack it seemed like everybody was involved in getting us forward.....not just a reliance on Peacock's grunt and Burrow darting about which it has been in the past.

I think with Burrow and using him at hooker......people instantly think of the GF 2011 and what he did that night. But realistically something like that performance is very rare and you forget the issues regarding the balance of the side. Hell I think the reason he made the bench for England in the 2013 WC was based on that one night two years previously.

Re: Employment in Cas : Fri Feb 27, 2015 8:54 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

I agree, the balance and workload seems much better. In attack it seemed like everybody was involved in getting us forward.....not just a reliance on Peacock's grunt and Burrow darting about which it has been in the past.

I think with Burrow and using him at hooker......people instantly think of the GF 2011 and what he did that night. But realistically something like that performance is very rare and you forget the issues regarding the balance of the side. Hell I think the reason he made the bench for England in the 2013 WC was based on that one night two years previously.

Danny Buderus played hooker in the 2011 final, and was on the pitch for 80 minutes. Burrow got his MoM award for coming on as substitute and breaking the game playing as a roaming half-back, not a hooker.

Re: Employment in Cas : Sat Feb 28, 2015 11:50 am  

craigizzard wrote:

Danny Buderus played hooker in the 2011 final, and was on the pitch for 80 minutes. Burrow got his MoM award for coming on as substitute and breaking the game playing as a roaming half-back, not a hooker.

Yet weren't his two most effective contributions to the game (his own try and the setup for Hall) made out of dummy half? Working from memory here, so may be wrong.

When both Burrow and Buderus were on the field they split time at dummy half IIRC.

Re: Employment in Cas : Sat Feb 28, 2015 12:46 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

Yet weren't his two most effective contributions to the game (his own try and the setup for Hall) made out of dummy half? Working from memory here, so may be wrong.

When both Burrow and Buderus were on the field they split time at dummy half IIRC.

Burrow's first try actually came from first receiver (Buderus at dummy half), and Webb & Ablett's tries came from smart dummy half work from Buderus too. Burrow did go into acting-half a bit and made Hall's try from a break from there. I'd certainly say that when Burrow came on he played that game more as a half than a hooker, although there is some overlap.