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Playing Murphy in spite of his inability to perform just so he can get to 300 is definitely putting the individual before the club given we're sitting 1 win outside the 8 with 3 to play.

Great to see SoJ recognised in the AFLCA votes.

Yes. And Walsh sitting third in the leaderboard.

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!

Ranking points you say?

It's interesting to see that Cripps keeps polling in the AFLCA, yet the broadcasters and the fans keep telling everyone how poor he's been, the CheatsFC TV commentary crew almost did an impromptu segment on it!

Just on our tackling in the Saints game, was it just me or did a lot of our very good tackles go unrewarded? There seemed to be quite a few instances where the perfect tackle was laid and the Saints player given an eternity to get rid of it, then didn't, and we still didn't get a kick.

And the arms around the waist free kick in a marking contest....be nice if that rule applied to all areas of the ground. It seems to be only against defenders.

It's interesting to see that Cripps keeps polling in the AFLCA, yet the broadcasters and the fans keep telling everyone how poor he's been, the CheatsFC TV commentary crew almost did an impromptu segment on it!

Great to see SoJ recognised in the AFLCA votes.

To be honest, I think a key aspect of Friday's win was Josh Honey's performance - we have been searching for the next small pressure forward, and from what I saw, he has all the makings.  For someone in just his third game (well, second if you only count game time), his first half was exceptional. 

And, he is the only Carlton player who has never played in a loss!

To be honest, I think a key aspect of Friday's win was Josh Honey's performance - we have been searching for the next small pressure forward, and from what I saw, he has all the makings.  For someone in just his third game (well, second if you only count game time), his first half was exceptional. 

And, he is the only Carlton player who has never played in a loss!

Indeed. Outstanding performance 👏
Leadership on show.