They all got to start somewhere , Mitchell will be fine
I'm also pretty sure he'll be a good 'un but the fact is we shouldn't have been surprised that our changed list didn't stand up in a GF. You could argue that without those changes we wouldn't have made the GF at all, and that may well be true.
I'd hope Horse will be looking at 2012 & 2014 and thinking "What did I get right ?" and "What did I miss ?". I'd rather drop a couple and finish 4th if it means we have the guys needed to play tough in the finals.