Quote: batleyrhino "Rob or Danny, it didn't matter last night. When the pack get so comprehensively beaten, you could have Peter Sterling and Brett Kenny at 6 & 7 and it would make no difference.'"
I understand the point you're making but would seriously beg to differ that Sterling and Kenny (I assume we're talking from around the mid eighties here) wouldn't have made a difference.
The first difference is the team plays would be structured with the forwards bossed around the field and marshalled in defence.
Jones-Buchanan's effort was there for all to see but almost completely wasted most of the time as his fellow forwards just watched his heroic attempts to show enthusiasm for the defensive task at hand. He needed calming down a little while the others needed a rocket up their collective jacksie.