It would seem so. There are complainers saying Maj hasn't locked in a spot, but very often, his non-selection has been a mystery. He'd play well enough to be amongst the better North players one week, then back at Werribee the next. Compare that with Petrie (who I was a big defender of) who played one decent game last season - and every other game he played contributed to the wiping of his reputation as a player. Yet, week in week out he made the team. The utter rubbish about him drawing the best defender was just an insult.
Daw has had a very strange treatment at North - almost indicating a schism in the management at the club, where one power group had enough sway to re-contract him, but another has the ability to exclude him from the team.
How many times to you hear that players need continuity to find confidence and form. Yet, despite some solid efforts and glimpses of brilliance, he has been denied continuity. Sure, injury has had an impact on his availability, but for mine, North is a better looking side with him on the ground. When he is not there, Ben Brown is copping the best defender, and probably the next best as well. Unlike Drew, Maj is capable of taking marks, and might even kick a few goals while still freeing Brown of at least one defender.
Love having the Hybrid as ruck, but seriously, Maj is also capable of winning some of the rucks, so he is versatile enough to spare Pruess of a full game in the ruck. And a resting Pruess in the pocket creates a true target that oppositions would fear.
I know there's always more to the story than the public gets to hear, and there might truly be some injury worries, but the club is making selections that don't make sense just now, and this is especially true of the way they've managed Maj over the last couple of years.