Put him behind competent forwards such as JWH, Moa, Kennedy, Liu, LOD etc he plays well.
Put him behind nuffs like Merrin and Woods and of course he's not up to par.
I love when people put this argument forward. Game one 2013 all the so called "experts" said that NSW dominated QLD in the forwards....and they did and then some.
NSW scored 2 tries, one from Jennings off a broken fiield run, and the other was an inside pass from Lewis to Hayne.
Please tell me what Mitchell did in game one? I will tell you - nothing.
I re watched game one a few days ago on IQ and just watched NSW attacking sets and Mitchell did one thing of note and that was give a nice short ball to Luke Lewis who made a half break...if you could call it that. Apart from that, it was all Maloney. Mitchell's kicking game was standard, nothing special, couldnt even get a repeat set.