Quote ="Grimmy"It will make a difference, but not a massive one. It's not like putting a prop at full back or anything. Surely he'll be fine if he trains on the other wing all week.'"
When I was under the delusion that Ian Millward was an RL genius, who had somehow only got noticed when he arrived at St. Helens, I actually started to believe his oft-proclaimed view that it didn't really matter where a player played so long as the overall tactics were right: good players could play anywhere, and it wouldn't make any difference.
Now of course, I know that Millward was closer to being a lunatic than a genius, and that he got noticed at St Helens because an already very well-oiled team, which also happened to contain three or four of the best players in Britain in pivotal positions, was able to get results without needing much coaching input.
For this reason, I'm less inclined to accept your view on this. I should hastily add that I know you're not proposing anything as radical as Millward used to, but I don't think playing on the left is the same as playing on the right. Players play on one side or the other for a reason - it may be biological, it may be a matter of experience and or confidence, I don't know. But I think that, for a game as important as this (in terms of the big test we expect it to give us), it would surely better to have as few people out of position as possible - then there are no issues to cloud any intel we can take from the end result.
