For me the jury is still out on Tommy Mack.
He needs to prove his worth for a spot in the starting 17, never mind staking a permanent position of his own!

Been saying the same myself ever since he first came into the team, usually to howls of derision from those dazzled by his innate beauty (or whatever). He hardly ever frightens the horses with ball in hand despite his occasionally apparent pace. He looks to have the making of a good nuts and bolts player maybe that will do all the little things but little else sadly. And I'll say it againfar better first season (admittedly with much better service) than Makinson has had...

true stuff. Even with his apparent pace he almost got chased down by Danny Orr last week - granted, he did go 80m to score but he looked like he was running through a treacle sponge at one point in that run.

I had a look at that to see if it was true. He ran 90m in under 11 seconds wearing ful kit and carrying a ball. The conditions were also a little sloppy at this point, that certainly isn't slow by any stretch of the imagination. Orr had a good angle on him to cut him down so Tommy did well.

He probably was running through a sponge. It's been raining a lot.

It is much harder to run fast with a ball tucked under one arm than when both arms are free.

And the chasers came from further infield and so had an advantage on Makinson, who first had to collect the ball and then leg it from a standing start.

I think the angle of Orr coming in from the side may have mislead you. I don't think there was ever any danger of Orr getting near to him.

**Just watched it on SLTV. Orr gets no where near him. If he was even close, he wouldn't have given up on the half way line.**