Quote: Smurf "No, you're presuming things here. Read the whole sentence - 'with the side he had' was the most important part of it.'"
The side we had was not the side we had under Millward. And our biggest challengers had gained significantly (not least - in Leeds' case - because of the excellent crop of youngsters they had coming through at the time which supplemented their established personnel).
Every coach after Millward has been forced to come to terms with steadily diminishing backline potency (with the exception of Lyon) and the retirement/transfer of the likes of Martyn, Sculthorpe, Newlove, Iro, Hoppe, Fairleigh, Britt etc.
It's not like Anderson was coaching the SL equivalent of the Harlem Globetrotters. So, no. He didn't underachieve. Or at least not in the context of the league at that time.