In hindsight JOC (James O'Connor) and HUNT have not provided decent back up abilities at 10 but at the time of team planning I think it is reasonable to expect that they both would provide backup.
HIndsight is a great thing but surely a French premiership winning flyhalf and former Wallaby flyhalf should be a suitable backup.
At the cusp as I am of Rule 10's requirements and having endured TWAS's insults (poor me
, and some now edited out I note), two final points in this debate (well, final from me, anyway).
First, there is absolutely nothing wrong with any poster here using the cursed 'hindsight' as a basis for their current critique of, say, a coach's recruiting calls or general policy going as far back as desired.
If a CEO is ultimately sacked for 'in hindsight'
having taken what have turned out to be a a raft of poor decisions that have damaged his/her company, the board so sacking is of course acting 'with the benefit of hindisight' in that
what has ultimately resulted from these decisions has been highly deficient, and that is precisely what elite accountability is and always should be about. That is how elites are and should be judged, on results.
And we here are largely a community of rugby-loving fan/critics in combination. What matters at the end of all our thinking and commentary along the way is what ultimately results for the success of our teams, players and Aus rugby in general. Whether 'hindsight' is engaged in our assessments of what's occurred is largely irrelevant, especially if what's occurred is seriously damaging to whatever rugby cause we're passionate about.
Second, KH largely played in the centres for one 'injury cover' season for Biarritz and they didn't in 2009-10 win a 'French Premiership' (they got close to a H.C. win though). KH played a handful (if that) of his games at Biarritz at 10, and that was 4-5 years ago pre a long-ish AFL period. At Churchie GPS rugby he played at 15. How all this makes him a credible S15 10 backup many years later is beyond me. And re JOC (James O'Connor) at 10 - I can recall virtually every commentator anywhere in the universe all agreeing, post BIL 2013, that the JOC (James O'Connor) experiment there was a Wallaby disaster and it all sadly proved he was not, and likely never would be, a credible, viable 10 in any capacity in elite rugby.