Is it my memory playing up or didn't scrum-halfs used to play the full 80, or maybe just get subbed for the last 10 once convincingly in the bag. Simpson, for example, who I still really miss. And always seems a high stakes gamble to break the half-backs rythm mid-game, so why do we these days bake this into an almost Eddie Jones cake?
And sometimes it's been an on-form Porter getting ditched, not just Robson (who wasn't exactly top of his own game last season; thankfully, looking revived recently).
These days, my heart sinks every time we swap around half-time as far too often marks a turn for the worse a desperate gambit. Also seems to be an unwelcome trend for us to do the same with other players having a good outing, and then all going wrong arounb that position and even beyond - why would you take someone playing out of their skin and glueing things together off? Front row, I get...
I actually think Porter worth backing in rotation but not for this half-game nonsense, which probably does him no good personally either. And what does Robson think about bench-warming, unless nursing something?
Anyone able to set me right in this, beyond welfare (which also doesn't seem to be working for us in recent years), as clearly beyond my grasp...
Always a Wasp
