Guarantee you he would have been barnstorming as a flanker. Everyone is a wee bit too harsh on Farrell. Yes, he is too slow as a center and probably will never get over that problem with the ten yard gap, but you cannot deny that he puts everything into his game. We're talking as though he's lurking behind a corner at RFU HQ giving Rob Andrew and Brian Ashton thousands of pounds worth of bungs in used £50 notes in order to get a place. He shouldn't have been given a place after the Six Nations but if you are named on the squad what are you going to do?
He does get given allot of stick usually reserved for more scandalous characters like Laurence Dallaglio. He doesn't say much controversial, he doesn't eat kittens for breakfast or urinate on the flags of his opponents, he just simply has the misfortune of playing in a position in which everyone outside of the RFU feels he shouldn't be in.
Sadly, that's going to be his legacy, not good enough to play at international level but unfairly labelled "that f***ing knob who doesn't know how to play at center."
