Absolutely not - Manning can’t help himself…no positional sense and no defensive intent when faced with a player about to cross a ball. Fellows to be fair is not really a defender - not in his DNA - but does a marginally better job stopping crosses. My belief is that a defensive line is weakened by the full-backs being unbalanced - that is what Fellows and Manning bring to the team, however Fellows is far more of a threat going forwards as he’s braver on the ball.
Nah, think you give the opposition too much credit. Our defence continues to let the Manager down, mainly because of the wing-back choices unfortunately, but that’s probably imposed by SR.