Why would you try and turn one 9f the best wingers in the world into a fb? It just doeant make sense. If he didn't come out and say that he wanted to play fb, then no one in the entire rugby league world would be even talking about him as a potential fb option.
As much as I’d like him to stay on the wing because I think averelo would make a great fullback,to answer your question,because since he is the best winger in the world and the fastest player in the game it would be crazy to not test him at fullback especially when we don’t already have an established fullback.
Mate, it was not that long ago, before we signed JAC that he expressed his desire to play Fullback and we were all saying we don't care where he played as long as we signed him, In my opinion with his speed he would make a great Fullback hopefully in the same vein as Ben Barber who was probably our fastest ever player, we need that kind of speed to return the ball as far up the field as possible or to chase down a chip a head from an opposing team I was under the impression that JAC signed with us rather other teams that were chasing him because we would let him play as fullback, look at other sucessful teams with fast Fullbacks - Tedsco at the Roosters, Pappenhuyzen Melbourne storm, Gutherson Parramatta,
Mate, it was not that long ago, before we signed JAC that he expressed his desire to play Fullback and we were all saying we don't care where he played as long as we signed him, In my opinion with his speed he would make a great Fullback hopefully in the same vein as Ben Barber who was probably our fastest ever player, we need that kind of speed to return the ball as far up the field as possible or to chase down a chip a head from an opposing team I was under the impression that JAC signed with us rather other teams that were chasing him because we would let him play as fullback, Look at other teams with fast Fullbacks - Tedsco at the Roosters, Pappenhuyzen Melbourne storm, Gutherson Parramatta, Dufty ST George, Holmes, Cowboys, Staines, Penrith, Mitchell South Sydney and the best we could offer was Hoppa the slowest fullback in the NRL ( who couldn't get us out of our Quater ), anyway It's just my opinion, I imagine Jac making a break and passing to support players like Meanie, Averillo , Cotric, Burton, or Doorey how exciting is that going to be, Think about it?
Barba was a 5/8th coming through, not a winger. Completely different story.
He will do the same thing from the wing.
Pay had his favourites at fullback too you can’t hold that against Averillo. Persisting with Lewis for so long is a big reason why he is on the dole now. So when would you have preferred Averillo to make his first grade debut when he was 17 or 18?
If you check nswrl archives Jake played the vast majority of his games at centre in Flegg and NSW cup.
Averillo probably wasn't physically ready for first grade in 2020, he was thrown in as a last ditch measure by Pay to have some kind of attacking threat.
And yet he played crap at centre on first grade.
I'll agree with that. Well written....
If you actually watch the lower grades and not go off what google says like most people, Averillo was moved around alot because of injuries to other players and rised through the ranks at a younger age.
Point taken about Averillo's age and I'm not saying that he won't make a good Half or Fullback, but again we now have Flanagen , we have Burton in the halves, as for fullback we have Meanie who has shown he can be a good fullback and like Averillo I'm sure they will flourish under the new regime and a much faster more skillful team around them, but like I said in my other post's, I believe a good fullback has to possess a lot of speed like Patten & Barba, Morris etc. and that's why I would like to see JAC have a crack but if he ends up on the wing then I think Meanie would be the next choice as far as Speed is concerned ( Just my opinion ), Hoppa is a good fullback but again, Speed is his downfall, BMoz is a great winger and we played him at Fullback with success because he is a speedster but the Roosters play him on the wing because Tedesco is their X factor so I'm hoping that JAC will be our X factor but at the end of the day TBaz will decide who goes where and as long as we have winning combinations I think we'll all be happy.
Averillo is faster than Meaney..
I think JAC will have a license to be a roaming winger in attack when he comes over rather than stuck on the wing touching the ball once a few sets like most wingers. With his acceleration I think he'll be timing his run like a FB to an off load from a forward or an inside pass from the halves like Cronk to Slater. If Avo is FB he'll do the same on the other side of the ruck. It will make us unpredictable and difficult to defend against when we have a very quick player on one side in close support with passing skills and the fastest guy in the NRL on the other. If a forward offloads to JAC it's almost a guaranteed try because he won't be run down and its only the opposition FB to side step. That's my take on TB saying he'll use his imagination with JAC. Thinking outside the box - we'll see plenty of that with TB in charge.
I hope so, the only difference is on the wing you have to wait till the ball gets out to you where at fullback you're right in the middle of the action and can make breaks out of broken play like Barba, Patten, Morris etc. but at the end of the day TBAZ will decide who goes where and as long as we win I'm happy.
His probably Faster than JAC as well, that's great it means with Averillo & Cotric we will have a super fast Center combination can't wait.
He looks like he's added abit of size anyways judging by the team photo posted recently. Kid seems like he's on the right track
