EJ has said he is always impressed with Mike Browns defensive abilities , and Full Backs in general as a last line of defence read the game well and are good tacklers .

Gustard selecting 3 players who have played at FB   in Earle , Morris and Brown ticks all boxes as they have speed and tackling ability and can cover each other if 2 get dragged forward .

Perhaps  the coaching team feel AM is the quickest of the 3 ? , certainly the break for Earles try last week shows he has plenty of gas .

Im sure Walker , Visser etc will be spurred on to improve their defence.

Gustard's speciality is defence and shipping tries has been our biggest problem , I think  he will try to fix that first , then build on it .