It's a great story with McDonald. Fantastic that he's got back to playing.
But .... correct me if I'm wrong, wasn't it him who was skinned / left for dead several times. And Pennington once or twice too. Sympathy vote aside, neither were nowhere near top 3. Elder, fair enough.
No way should McD have started in such an important match, and sorry, it showed why. He was a reasonable CCC player before (I quite like him unlike some), but he was not some world beater that we couldn't afford to leave out. IF Burke really wasn't ready, then Taff, or McGloughlin or even Pennington in the centre. It was yet more niavity from McCann.