Why the obsession with putting players out of position?

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Let's get away from the Johnson stuff for a bit and instead concentrate on a particular gripe of mine instead!

England selectors seem to have long had a bit of an issue with certain players. They like to play them out of their preferred slot rather than using them in the positions that they are truly good at. Sometimes it can work: Dallaglio & Hill have both played successfully in all 3 back row positions and Austin Healey seemed to slot in pretty much anywhere in the back line and play well. However these were more the exception than the rule.

Look at the "Banahan experiment". Garbage. Monye at full-back? One of the worst International decisions I have ever seen. Playing Armitage on the wing. Stevens at Loosehead against some of the World's best Tight-heads. Haskell at 7. Moody at 7. (Actually just about any recent England 6 as a 7). Tindall as a 12.

Why the obsession with this? Why not actually look for the best possible options in positions they play week in week out?? It has IMO been a big failing of the selectors over the past few years and is one of the big things to sort out with the changes going on at the top at the moment. If a certain player is not good enough to get into the team in their preffered position, then they should use that as an incentive to play better.

Don't then

he went from Neath to Wales 7s then Ospreys. But he plays like a Sevens player and that is his problem

and my donkey kicks better

I think he kicks better than Stephen Jones who just hoofs it with no direction.

SJ usually hits the target

JH couldn't hit a barn door