Malthouse's comments on Selwood (Murphy backhander)

[1981]

Thought it was very revealing Mick, totally unprompted, mentioned in the post game last night that he would have Selwood in his side any day of the week. Said Selwood just wills his side across the line

I see this as a backhander to Marc Murphy who last night was pretty average, was beaten by his opponent Guthrie, and, most critically in the dying minutes fumbled the ball at the most crucial clearance. Ok it wasn't a great handball by Brick, it was a bit high, but It went straight through Marc's hands, then his second effort was poor.

The end result was Geel went forward and Selwood kicked the winning goal.

The clearance was critical. Had Marc taken possession and taken the ball into our forward line we likely would have won the game.. But he didn't.

Hard to criticize Marc given he is a very good footballer, but the cold hard reality is he is not elite, whereas Selwood is, and those dying minutes showed the difference between the two and why Mick would have Selwood in his side any day of the week

 

[Big_Luch]

long bow...he said he doesn't like mentioning his players......but he doesnt mind doing it for the opposition

 

[BM123]

Guthrie isn't your normal tagger. He actually has some toe and is a decent player in his own right.

Murphy had 10 touches in the third quarter to get us over the line and Gibbs went 29 and 4 to Selwood's 18 touches and lone goal.

It was Mclean's mistake as well.

 

[zeeCFC]

That's your own biases and insecurities regarding Murph coming out...not Mick's

 

[Wickzki]

Mick can't compliment a champion player on another team without it inferring an insult on one of his own?

 

[pepalenko]

I also dont think it was a back hander. Murph has been a v goid captain this year.

 

[BALKAN]

Mick has done nothing but praise Murph for the past 2 years.
As someone said, what you're inferring from Mick's comments probably says more about how YOU feel about Murphy than what Mick does.

 

[Azul]

2+2=5

 

[ODNBlue]

And with that, another promising thread dies in the arse.

 

[AB_Blue]

Yep

 

[Aphrodite]

Yeah nah!

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