Quote Originally Posted by Dembe View Post
Wingers have had to evolve, as JR said teams work harder now on things such as defensive shape, so players are having to evolve to counter the tactics deployed against them. I am not entirely convinced that some winger from the 60s would just dance and skip around them, they were able to do this in their day because they had 1 fullback to beat and tactics weren't as evolved as in the modern day, they made the best of the way the game was played.
Ollie Tanner was playing like anold fashioned winger for the first month to six weeks of the season and not doing too badly out of it, then Bulut got him playing like a full back.