A bit odd you can rule a line through Dawes and make a big call on Brown who missed the entire season and half the year prior, yet make a neutral call on Reid who was AA last year and has barely missed a game in two years...on the grounds that you havent seen him much?
How does that work?
Your question doesn't really make sense mate. Are you asking why I remember certain playuers and not others? Or how my own perception of football works?
I guess I don't know, its just what I remember and what I don't. What stands out and what doesn't. What I notice and what I don't. You know, the whole function of human memory and perception isn't really a speciality of mine so I can't really explain it to you.
Its not as if I've come out and ridiculed Reid, I've just admitted that I don't think I've seen enough of him to comment.
I guess with Dawes, it becomes apparent faster that he some serious deficiencies and might be benefiting from his team mates more than you'd expect an elite forward to have to do.
And with Brown I suppose it was just readily apparent that the guy is a genuine gun defender. It perhaps didn't take me long to make my mind up on it. Kind of like the first time I saw Jack Trengove play - I just knew he'd be a gun immediately. Some players just have "it".
And with Reid, I guess I've seen him a bit, but not enough tom make a judgement. I don't feel I need to hold some opinion on every player in the league. Some I do. Some I don't. I'm no expert. But I make judgement calls on players I think I've got an insight into.
Have you ever read the Malcolm Gladwell book "Blink" ? It gives a good summation of how people make snap judgements, and how they're usually right, but can't explain them later.
Maybe read that if you want to know how I arrived at my conclusions, its a pretty interesting book
