Bryce Gibbs & Marc Murphy

[ElwoodBlues1]

When a full squad is up and running everyone has a job.
Cripps has one, Gibbs and Murphy have one, Curnow usually takes a tagging role on one of the opposition midfielders.
A player like Cripps draws a lot of attention from the opposition.
If he goes down that attention switches to the next most dangerous tier....Gibbs and Murphy.
If Curnow goes down a dangerous opposition midfielder also enters the equation.
Gibbs and Murphy now not only have to do their own jobs but they need to pick up the slack left by the absences....and they have to do it under increased opposition scrutiny.

One soldier out, another in....but our problem is the replacements are still in cadets.

You also have to look at the effect of the players Gibbs and Murphy play on and what damage they do...often their opponents are allowed to run around rack up 30 possies themselves
No use Murphy and Gibbs getting 30 possies if Pendlebury, Treloar, Sidebottom as an example get the same for the opposition etc and by virtue of being better users of the ball impact the game more...
You often look at the stats and see Murphy, Gibbs with high numbers but then look at the opposing teams mids who have about 5 players with similar numbers....Scott Selwood had more ball than Gibbs yet people say Gibbs went well and gave him votes even though Scott Selwood was his direct opponent for most of the night..