TheJonesBoy shut up seriously just shut it about Burgess at center he's not going to ever play at center again in his entire Rugby Union career. I know you like the player but he's a 6 shall always be a 6 and anybody and I mean anybody apart form Farrell & Lancaster who has seen him play there agrees. He's not the answer and never was ,he folly of him playing is partially how we screwed up.
No you little squawking child, you shut up.
Have a look at what Burgess achieved in league in his running game.
You really have no idea son.
He came into a back line set up that was already well wonky and looked great in the warm up games before the RWC, EVERYBODY agreed he was great in the warm up games. His defence is massive and he is a leader even though he's young.
This is where you Poms are losing it, you can't see talent where it exists so you take a rare thing like the raw material for a brilliant long term international centre and you decide it's too hard to make him that so lets chuck him in the forwards because we don't know how to bring the centre out of him.
Tana Umaga had a background in league and he went from wing to centre, one of the very best centres in the world.
Lancaster and Farrell have had no idea about what to do with their midfield. Thats a fact.
Give Burgess a chance, give him direction and the kid will deliver, he has all the abilities to make and break tackles, and to off-load in the tackle he just needs more time at the top level,
not to be cast into the pack or sent back to purgatory in club rugby where he will rot until he's passed his used by date and then dredged up again.
The classic pommie strategy on how to treat talent.
Look at Cipriani out in the cold.
You poms have no idea how to shape players that why you come out with this nonsense talk that it's too hard to make him a centre so just throw him in the forwards and see how he goes.
The guy has plenty of pace to play in the midfield just give him a run and a set playing rotation.
It's not like you've got anyone better to put in there until Tuilagi behaves himself. If he ever does.
There's a reason you're out of the Cup.
Use your talent more wisely, don't burn it at the first sign of failure.
You need leaders and with 4 years to build towards it now is the time to start fashioning the man for his role in the squad.
Get yourselves a Kiwi coach and watch how much improvement there is overnight, and Burgess will be a key part of that English midfield in 6 months.
He and Joseph are the most exciting pairing you have had since Carling and Guscott.
