Post Game Parley-2019 AFL Rd 2: Carlton vs Port Adelaide:

[Thryleon]

I appreciate that.

But fans crucified Poulson who was basically twice as effective with only 1/10th of the experience!

It's hard to rationalise such a diverse stance, it seems a bit having some cake and eating it!

Polson should have been playing in his place in round 1.  Now he is in he stays in.  Fasolo is surving on the basis that there isnt much else to put in the team for that role, but that wont last too much longer (I still think Jack Silvagni is ahead of him at this stage but he is capable of similar performances using recent history).

On a positive note, I noticed this when looking at the Sen site:

BEST
Port Adelaide: Rockliff, Lycett, Motlop, Ebert, Boak, Byrne-Jones, Rozee
Carlton: Cripps, Weitering, McKay, Dow, Petrevski-Seton, Murphy

When you look at that, the top seven (best for Port Adelaide) were mostly older players, they had five out of seven in that bracket. We had one out of six.

If Murphy was one of the best on field, I am gobsmacked.

He was a bit of a turnover merchant and wasn't exactly winning it at the coal face.  In fact, if he was cleaner with the ball, we might have won and was possibly the difference between winning and losing.

It was the worst 26 posession I have seen from a supposed top liner.