Quote The Ginger Pearl="The Ginger Pearl"McIlorum is never a hooker for me. Absolute terrible in attack but his defence is world class. He would be awesome in the second row but his distribution and decision making is just not good enough for him to be the only recognised hooker in a champion side. Its a massive weakness for us at the minute. Imagine how good we'd be with Roby or Monaghan.'"
To say he is terrible in attack is a complete exaggeration. As soon as he has an off night the knives are out for him I seems.
What this season has shown me is you really do need two hookers to rotate. Recently when TL has shared the hooking not only do the team look better but so does McIlorum. He comes on and can be a real live wire around the ruck which he can't do if he has to play 80 mins. I would even go as far as saying he has been the better of the two in at least one of the home games recently when it was TL's turn to have a quiet night but he was only able to do that because he wasn't expected to play the full 80.
If MM & TL are our hookers next season that is the least of our problems IMO.
