<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jockstrap @ Sep 16 2009, 08:26 AM)
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (feicarsinn @ Sep 16 2009, 06:45 PM)
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nap Kearney shouldn't be moved from fullback, he thrives there. I also don't see why Earls seems assured of his place on that team. Bowe is twice the player.[/b]
This is a POTENTIAL Backline, and Earls has heaps of it. Remember he's still only 21. If you were to compare Bowe at 21 to Earls now I would have said Bowe wasn't even in the same league.
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Have to agree with this fella. Bowe when he was 21, we were all calling a slow and not very inventfull player and now (I still can't get to grips with it....it's Tommy Bowe like) is in quite a few 'best team of the year' selections.
However, I don't think Earls' best position is at wing. He's far better off steadying up his defence and playing at outside centre or sticking with fullback where he can make use of those lethal counter attacing skills and massive right boot that we occasionaly see.
However...crazy that Ireland suddenly so much choice in the backline now (to think I was worried when Hickie was retiring) and playes like Earls. Jones, Mcfadden and Cave will really have to fight to get into a match day 22 let alone a 15.
But Jockstrap is right, we have potentially a very dangerous backline in the works. It's the Front 5 we have to worry about now, particularly at Tighthead and I'm somewhat worried about Second Rows onces O'Connell and O'Callaghan retire.
