I like Bird in 5/8 mainly to keep our defensive line bigger, it's harder to cover for two small halves (Prince & Campbell) - but when you got a bigger 5/8, you only have to worry about covering the halfback.
What Carty did last night worked well, starting Bird in #6 then rotating the boys around when Zillman came on. That didn't happen till the 35min mark though when the sting was taken out of the Penrith,
our forwards made all the tackles then our backs made all the meters.
The team was so much more organised in attack with Prince there, then we had Preston, Zillman and Bird running around as attacking options aswell as Laffranchi and Friend doing their usual close to the line.
It worked well last night, but it needs to work more consistanly to declare it a success. But overall, IMO,
it was Prince that made us so much better last night, not so much the Bird-Campbell-Zillman rotation.