I think that's selling the players short, shuey and sheed both absolutely played brilliant games. No we don't have the best midfield but to say ours is 15th is just laughable. Worst case I think would be about 6th, our midfield is easily better than Bris, Carl, Ess, Freo, Gc, Hawks, North, Port, Stk, Wb, and based on exposed performance is probably better than Crows, Cats, and maybe even Sydney's now.One of the reasons we won was because one of their role players - Levi Greenwood - was simply unable to curb Shuey in the second half, and our role player - Hutchings - limited Sidebottom to his worst game for the year.
Our midfield being ranked 15th is actually about right, because our whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Tactical innovation got us the flag, not individual brilliance from our midfield brigade.
Yeo, Shuey and Gaff are 3 genuinely elite mids, Redden has returned back to A grade level and Sheed is about to reach his peak and just showed he can also play like an A grader.