Bryce Gibbs & Marc Murphy

[Professer E]

In the midfield you have blokes playing a number of roles.  There are first handlers... the blokes who win the ball at the coal face and get it out under intense pressure (a la Cripps, Mitchell x2, Priddis, Selwood, Kennedy, Martin etc) , first and second receivers, blockers and outside distributors.

Gibbs is one of the best first receivers in the game, but when he is forced to win the initial pill from the contest stoppage he is hopeless.  Cripps lets the others play their part, without Cripps the possession chain breaks down.