The lads with no real skill or nous who would have been more use forking hay than trying to strike a ball accurately under pressure but bring other manly qualities to an inter county team.
They normally fall under one of three types of hurlers - the sticky man marking back would is happy not to hurl any ball as long as his man doesn’t, the athlete who runs around like a headless chicken making and breaking tackles hooking and blocking and his happy out in the dirty work or the big bull who is up in the forwards to burst up the play and stop a half back from dominating.
Which one would you want on your team?
Feel free to mention any other mullockers who are worthy of a mention here
The seethe is still strong… Walked all over you cunts in 18. A 20 year old destroyed your supposed hardy bucks… And he hit 5 points just for the fun of it.
This thread was made for Nicky Lambert but his defection to football meant he didn’t have much longevity.
I never saw Eoin McGrath as a mullocker, but then I didn’t follow him that closely. Fairly sure I still thought he was U21 when he was 26 or something.
Laffan was a quintessential 90s full forward - big lad with a good paw and was able to turn and make a yard or two to get a shot or pass off but not overly mobile.
Redser had serious skill just bad application no way is he a mullocker. Fergal Lynch, seamus pended or Dan McCormack worth a mention. Timmy Mac wins it for me
A mullocker to me is almost always a half-forward doing donkey work - I’d never really class a corner-back there to cleave chunks off a corner-forward, or a centre-back there to handpass the ball to a fella who can actually hit it as mullockers, they’re different things.
This will take some pondering. Mike O’Brien had a swing that needed planning permission, I must dig up a video of it to appreciate it again in its full ungainly beauty.
