Okay, lets look at the teams that played last weekend.
B: Banfield (237) Glass (82) Nicoski (18)
HB:Chick (196) Hunter (74) Jones (19)
C:Fletcher (109) Cousins (195) Embley (102)
HF:Staker (32) Hansen (17) Edwards (1)
F:Matera (169) Lynch (44) Seaby (22)
R:Cox (89) Judd (78) Kerr (92)
Int: Braun (148) Lecras (2) Selwood (12) Butler (22)
1760 total games.
B: Webster (16) Parker (195) Thornton (26)
HB:Mundy (6) Polak (55) Grover (83)
C: Black (134) Carr (116) Schofield (197)
HF:Johnson (6) Pavlich (117) Murphy (7)
F: Medhurst (76) Longmuir (110) Farmer (191)
R: Sandilands (47) Bell (221) Hasleby (119)
Int: Dodd (8) McManus (173) Cook (158) Crowley (2)
2063 total games.
Hugely surprising

So other than the fact that Connolly had an extra 300 odd games of experience to work with when dishing up that embarassing capitulation to Brisbane, did you have a point?