05-01-2017, 07:15 AM
(05-01-2017, 05:47 AM)LP link Wrote:It's been widely discussed in the football media months ago, before the season even started.
The Daisy haters started kicking him before the JLT series even got underway, and then when he failed to dominate in the JLT they went up a level! There is so much rhetoric about him, I suspect if he won a Brownlow they'd claim it was rigged!
But lets face it, we still have lots of posters bagging Murphy despite his stellar start to the season, so I suppose bagging players has become the new black!
On the radio at the weekend Harf made a good point, he couldn't understand Carlton fans bagging Murphy for two clangers out of 30+ disposals. He posed the question, why are they bagging Murphy when Docherty and Simpson are playing at lower efficiency? It's a tell!
Booing Daisy is every bit as undesirable as the booing Ablett Jnr received at the weekend. These blokes aren't knobs who gobbed off and dribbled crap like Goodes, or snippers like Ziebell. They are just hard working footballers who generally go about their business quietly and without fanfare.
What part of the crowd are you sitting in?
I've never heard the crowd boo either daisy or certainly not Murphy. I point out our captain won't tackle and actively runs away from defensive situations which makes it very hard to defend him.
Daisy gets very few possessions and scrubs quite a few simple kicks which is why he got dropped to the VFL. There is no conspiracy. He's not played as well as his younger and less experienced teammates.
He cops criticism because he's paid 7 times more than the guy who is out perfoming him which seems fair enough. I don't see him putting his hand up to take a pay cut to fit more/better players into our salary cap which is what hawks and cats players did for years.
Defend him if you like but be realistic about others right to criticise the bloke.