He looked injured IMO, kept getting beat by footwork. Do you know if the rest of the stats are online anywhere?

McLlorum always misses tackles but that is due to the nature of his aggressive defensive style. He flys in and sometimes bounces off in the collision, most other players slow down before contact which makes it easier to grasp the attacking player.

Would anyone want to change the way Micky tackles aggressively to eradicate the odd miss tackle? Not me, he sets the tone for our forward pack.

As soon as I saw who started this thread I knew it would be a waste of 10mins of my holiday

As for my take on the original question, both players suite their team and there are only 2 ways to decide who's better

Medals at re end of the year
Whoever mcbanana chooses for England

Sadly, neither are very accurate

How about comparing the attributes of each player? That would seem like the most logical way of doing it.

If that's what you want, then tell us the attributes you want to compare.

Anything relevant really. There could be a whole host of different things you could look at, including:

Creativity
Distribution
Errors
Tackles
Missed Tackles
Kicking Game
Penalties Conceded

Those things are far more relevant than medals won when comparing the ability if two different players. Medals are won by a team, not by one player.

You find those stats, let us know the outcome and who is best and then we can close the thread.

Stats don't always tell the full story unfortunately.
With regards to the thread, close it when you like, I genuinely couldn't care less.

I checked - McIlorum wins.