This may seem like a shot in the dark but didn't Stam play left back when he first came to the club?
Eardley rb
Hazell cd
trotman cb
stam lb
Sure he lacks some pace but Simon Charlton wasn't a speed demon.
Personally i am more worried about who we are bringing in for the centre of the park because we need that creaitvity that Kilkenny had and Wellens before him.