Re: Post Game Passion; AFL Rd 20: Carlton vs St Kilda
Reply #150 –
Personally, I think the above statement exposes a prejudice, I'll explain why.
In most games sMurph has played he has been far from our worst, even in several of those partial games when he has come on he had as much influence if not more influence than some that played 4-qtrs. Yet many "fans" seem happy not to give him credit when credit is due.
I thought that there was a danger that perhaps I was being too apologist for sMurph, so I completed a small exercise.
I filtered out his partial game rankings and come up with a ranking for his 2021 season relative to other team mates only based on full games. Based on that measure he ranked 12th on our list of 2021 players. That put him ahead of SoJ, Martin, Fogarty, Gibbons, SPS, Fisher, De Koning, Stocker, Jones, Dow and even Betts as well as a heap of others.
Now I realise different ranking systems will produce different results, but I do not expect any of them to result in him being top of the pile or bottom of the list.
Perhaps I'm not the one being biased after all!