Joined: Oct 15 2008 Posts: 1944 Location: east hull
General Zod. wrote:Keiron Cunningham wasn't blessed with pace.
Apart from pace, Murrell has absolutely everything you'd want for a top-class hooker hence why Justin has given him the number 9 shirt.
As for Ben Fisher, he's technically superb in terms of his accurate and speedy distribution from dummy-half and his tackling technique is text book for a smaller player but he's prone brain explosions in taking wrong options and his lack of consistency has been a problem.
Loose-forward wise the natural option would be to put Galea there but I think there's a chance Justin may utilise Chev Walker physical presence in the middle of the park as an off-loading type middle player and choose to keep Galea out wide where he's done all his damage.
Cunningham had enough pace, is a natural hooker and is a bull near the opponents line, hes a totally different player to Murrell, hopefully Murrell will do well there,
Joined: Mar 14 2003 Posts: 25925 Location: Back in Hull.
Think he will do well there, he has good hands and a good kicking game, bit too slow for halfback, so hooker could suit him, as he has great workrate, not sure where the comparisons to Cunningham come from as he has no where near the strenght Cunningham has, I think he will be like Diskin, but with a better kicking game but not as good in defence.
My only worry would be looking at his stats is his defence good to play hooker he does seem to miss a few tackles and could get targetted by the bigger players through the middle.
I do think Scott Murrells natural position is hooker but does need to interchange with a zippy dummy half like fisher. The amount of work Murrell does defensively can be detremental to his attacking game.
Joined: Jun 01 2007 Posts: 12664 Location: Leicestershire.
Regarding Murrell's pace, or lack of it, I think the game has changed a bit since Roby was MoS. Slightly slower ptbs will suit him, or at least not highlight this deficiency. Problem is if trend is reversed - the early part of the season always seem to involve teams adjusting to new refereeing interpretations.
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Mild Rover wrote:Regarding Murrell's pace, or lack of it, I think the game has changed a bit since Roby was MoS. Slightly slower ptbs will suit him, or at least not highlight this deficiency. Problem is if trend is reversed - the early part of the season always seem to involve teams adjusting to new refereeing interpretations.
Joined: Oct 15 2003 Posts: 53839 Location: North Yorkshire
General Zod. wrote:Keiron Cunningham wasn't blessed with pace.
Apart from pace, Murrell has absolutely everything you'd want for a top-class hooker hence why Justin has given him the number 9 shirt.
As for Ben Fisher, he's technically superb in terms of his accurate and speedy distribution from dummy-half and his tackling technique is text book for a smaller player but he's prone brain explosions in taking wrong options and his lack of consistency has been a problem.
Loose-forward wise the natural option would be to put Galea there but I think there's a chance Justin may utilise Chev Walker physical presence in the middle of the park as an off-loading type middle player and choose to keep Galea out wide where he's done all his damage.
In his younger days Cunningham had plenty of pace aswell as power and his blockbusting runs were a major feature in his game that has disappeared as he has got older and slower.
Murrell's kicking out of dummy half will be very useful and he will defend well but his pace may let him down, I personally think he looks like a 13.
Joined: Jan 02 2003 Posts: 43413 Location: rlfans flying wing man
Gordon Gekko wrote:Murrell has all the skills necessary to be a top class No.9, he's played there before for the all conquering Leeds Academy side at both U-18's and U-21's .
think even you would have looked good at hooker in them teams
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