Re: Post Game Pandemonium: AFL Rd 3: Carlton vs Fremantle
Reply #131 –
I'll instead revert to King Carey's comments made during a Friday night telecast who said Murph is as courageous as as anyone.
This is clearly the truth, the problem I think is one of language, in that some people define courage very narrowly like they define tough.
Craig Bradley was tough, but even by sMurph's standards was a soft as butter in the physical contest, but Bradley would run until he threw up and then he'd run some more, much like Robert Harvey. That is both courageous and tough, it's just not bare knuckle tough!
Most of these "tough guys" in the basic sense, would fold like a house of cards under the Robert Harvey, Craig Bradley type toughness. They'd be terrified at the thought of having to push themselves like that just once a season in a time trial let alone a game!
Some people think beating their kid toughens them up, others think it's a pissweak act!
sMurph has spent more than a decade at Carlton being poleaxed by bigger heavier opponents, blokes like Hodge, and received little or no protection from team-mates like the pissweak Tuohy or Henderson. Yet sMurph fronts up, week after week, doing the tough stuff he needs to do to get back on the park.
It's pretty thin logic calling any of them soft!