Steve Bone
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I've seen a few people say they'd like to see Williams in at right-back.
And Devlin tried in central midfield in one of those two positions there.
And I think that would be interesting.
I don't think...
That's necessarily in the manager's mind at the moment, but it would be an interesting experiment if we needed to do it one way, because I think Devlin would relish that role.
He'd be chasing and harrying everything, wouldn't he?
He wouldn't let the opposition midfield have any time.
But no, hats off to Devlin and Swanson, both above and beyond at the moment, and they continue.
Yeah, what, because of the way a team lines up?
And they're not seen as defenders so much as they always have been.
Yeah, I mean, there's already been a move towards, you know, there's many more teams now play with wing-backs than used to be the norm, didn't they?
Whenever you used to have five at the back, it was a flat-back four and a sweeper, wasn't it?
You don't really hear about sweepers anymore, do you?
So, yeah, football changes, doesn't it?
Although I do think sometimes the old ways and the old methods come back around to being into fashion, don't they?
Which I quite like.
Yeah, I think if you are starting out in your football career as a fullback, 20, 30, 40 years ago, if you wanted to be a fullback, you just had to be a very good, solid defender, good man marker, a good defender, didn't matter about anything else.
Now, if you fancy yourself as a full-back and you're coming through the ranks and you're in an academy or whatever, you have to be a good all-round player.