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<blockquote data-quote="TVH11" data-source="post: 383868" data-attributes="member: 20067"><p>As much as everyone would like to see hook light the pitch on fire at 10 i&#039;m afraid I have to agree with everyone on our 10 situation. Even after the scotland game, i still can&#039;t see 10 being Hook&#039;s position during the WC. I think Stephen Jones will probs be our 10 (although he&#039;s looked lethargic and out of confidence) he&#039;s probably our safest bet. Yes he&#039;s not an attacking threat, but our back-line hasn&#039;t really been on fire with Hook at 10. There&#039;s the whole &quot;tactic&quot; of moving the play all in one direction till theres no space (and then do the same in the opposite direction), which if it actually is a &quot;tactic&quot; needs to change. We&#039;ve all ranted on here along with the BBC &quot;pundits&quot; on scrum V that the players need to man up and just play off the cuff (cause this so called tactic does not work). We have enough experienced players in our back-line and forwards for that matter to say when things are working or not, and change things. If Hook is to be our 10 at the world cup, then i feel that the O&#039;s have to play him at 10, and not screw about with where to play him. To be fair Biggar aint played poorly during the 6 nations for the o&#039;s, so to drop him would be a bit unfair - saying that i do feel that Webb should be given a chance at 9 in some of the &quot;bigger&quot; games ahead of Philips (his distribution is so much quicker than Philips&#039;s). Seeing as the ospreys are losing so many players next season i feel they should now start to blood through some of the youngsters (especially Mathew Morgan - Who seems to be a great attacking threat at 10; but as seen not the best tackler). Ah well, the countdown to the world cup has began <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="TVH11, post: 383868, member: 20067"] As much as everyone would like to see hook light the pitch on fire at 10 i'm afraid I have to agree with everyone on our 10 situation. Even after the scotland game, i still can't see 10 being Hook's position during the WC. I think Stephen Jones will probs be our 10 (although he's looked lethargic and out of confidence) he's probably our safest bet. Yes he's not an attacking threat, but our back-line hasn't really been on fire with Hook at 10. There's the whole "tactic" of moving the play all in one direction till theres no space (and then do the same in the opposite direction), which if it actually is a "tactic" needs to change. We've all ranted on here along with the BBC "pundits" on scrum V that the players need to man up and just play off the cuff (cause this so called tactic does not work). We have enough experienced players in our back-line and forwards for that matter to say when things are working or not, and change things. If Hook is to be our 10 at the world cup, then i feel that the O's have to play him at 10, and not screw about with where to play him. To be fair Biggar aint played poorly during the 6 nations for the o's, so to drop him would be a bit unfair - saying that i do feel that Webb should be given a chance at 9 in some of the "bigger" games ahead of Philips (his distribution is so much quicker than Philips's). Seeing as the ospreys are losing so many players next season i feel they should now start to blood through some of the youngsters (especially Mathew Morgan - Who seems to be a great attacking threat at 10; but as seen not the best tackler). Ah well, the countdown to the world cup has began :P [/QUOTE]

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