Quote ="Roddy B"I've said before, when I watched Joel in the NRL (about 10 times, maybe a couple shy of that), he always played centre and he was used quite similarly to how he's used here: a target for high kicks, or a finisher from five yards out. Why we'd play him at full back I don't know, I personally wouldn't mind seeing him have the odd game at centre with the quicker Evans or Riley outside him.'"
I'd agree with that and wouldn't mind seeing him play at centre either.
There's only so much you can do as a winger if you're not getting the service from your centre or full back and he's had some pretty poor passes thrown his way this year and managed to finish well despite that (the pass from Westwood at Hudds and the pass from Riley for his try yesterday). Both wingers scored a lot of tries last year because of Hodgson creating the overlap. There's been nowhere near as much of that this year, so I'd expect Joel to score a few more when Hodgson's back.