Quote: Sal Paradise "So Mullally is more than a serial plodder? as I said grasping at straws if you think a player who most would describe a squad player at best is going to change the face of the game against the best club side in the world!!'"
I think you are missing the point. I think Mullally is pretty much a SL plodder too but he would have made a difference here...Garbutt a significant one gives us 100m plus every game.look at our bench, crikey a championship rookie ormondroyd only prop option and make shift crock Delaney that was it. It was always going to take its toll against the best grinding team on the planet.also meant Cuthbertson had to play battering ram all game which took another dimension away from our play.
BTW, i still don't think we would have won but having Peteru,Garbutt and Mullally in the team think we could have stayed with them longer and made it pretty close.