General Zod. wrote:This really irritates me this thing about "freeing up Richard Horne". He's a class runner of the ball but he ain't no off-half and never has been. Even supporting half-backs/off-halfs (or whatever you want to call them) have to have more to their game than just a running game.
Last season it only took Cooke or Dobson to have a decent game and we'd win comfortably.
The fact of the matter is that Richard Horne has been nothing since Paul Cooke moved East IMO same goes for Yeaman (AKA Sid the Snail)..
Tend to agree with some of that. Horne never really played in 2008 and it's fair to say was anonymous for most of 2009 bar the first few games. In fairness he's been recovering from a careerthreatening injury and diabetes, but nonetheless needs to step it up big time next year. Not really seen him play with a genuine 7 though, to form a partnership like Maguire does with Burrow, or Pryce with Long, or to a lesser extent Brown with Robinson. Might work, might not, but I think he's more likely to just do the running bit next to Long than was possible with Thorman.
Yeaman's pretty good at running a good line and hitting a gap. And putting in a trademark big hit or 2 per game. That's it. Creates nothing for his winger, sadly. One of those players that Agar will never drop, though, even though Briscoe, Hall and Turner should be challenging him.
