The magnificent Mullane

How do I love thee, John Mullane? Let me count the ways.

NOT to begin on a nerdish note or anything, and whether one can actually love a player for his scoring feats rather than simply admire him is too existential a question to detain us here, but in his 43 championship outings for Waterford over the course of 10 and a bit seasons, Mullane has hit 14-115. Good going.

1 LOOK at his scoring average and it’s even better going. Mullane has hit an average of 3.65 points per game in the championship — an average of 3.65 points per game across the course of those 10 and a bit seasons, with all the potential for injury (and he came close to losing an eye in 2003), loss of form and lack of appetite that such long service contains, not to mention the scope for the vagaries of civilian life spilling over onto the field of play.