Mate you can have injury anytime. Holland does provide cover for a lot of positions. He can cover all positions at the back. And by moving around mbye hoppa or jmk, any injury to halves and hooker can also be covered. Its not like you still have the luxury to have your best player in each position when injury happens.
Doesnt have to be mbye at hooker. He can swap with jmk. Im pretty sure jmk has trained there a bit during summer. If required mbye can handle that position too. He is not as bad as you stated in that position. He played in gf there and did a decent job. Probably can distribute the ball better and probably can also run better from dummy half against tiring opps.
Why suddenly worry about having a slow fb? We had hoppa there for 2 years! So whats the big deal if he has to cover that position again for another game?
Lichaa has had a few years to work on his distribution skills.
In the modern game in case of an injury,you should have 2nd rowers that can cover center,centers that can move to wing and wingers to fullback.Every back line position and hooker can be covered by on field players and bench utility.
The concept behind the bench is to introduce impact players,refresh your forwards and have a utility that can cover hooker and halves (for impact and/or in case of injuries).
Putting a specialist back on the bench is a luxury,it doesn't fulfill any of these needs.It will weaken your bench to only 2 interchange forwards.
Are you kidding me? You're dreaming if you think you can just move your spine around during a game,like chess pieces and still maintain your attacking structure,execution and combinations.
It's easy to say,move this player here,he can play there,but the main objective is to play your spine to it's strength.
Playing the slow Hoppa as fullback was done out of desperate necessity (we didn't carry him on the bench just in case Morris got injured). We tried rectifying this troublesome position,but the Brad Abbey experiment failed.The point made about Holland being slow is that he doesn't improve the fullback position,that can be easily filled by the on field Hoppa.
You are missing the point on Mbye,his point of direction in attack from hooker is not his forte.You don't lose your most potent attacking player to plug a hooker spot when you can fulfill that need with your bench utility.If JMK moves to hooker then he gets replaced by the bench utility,the relevance and need for Holland is mute.
So now we have determined that injuries to the back line and hooking position can all be covered by existing on field players and bench utility and that there is no need for a specialized back.
So for 80 minutes whilst our 2 interchange forwards are clocking huge minutes,Holland is busy peeling oranges on the bench!
We are a laughing stock in the NRL already,please let's not suggest more comedy.