Take your pick many of us have been saying it for months.
In your reply to lamb22, you can't be that naive that you think the coach or MC doesn't make selection errors?
I have watched ressies all year, cumbers has kicked 30+ goals you don't think he deserved his chance earlier? Some hogwash about needed to be more defensive lol, he was chasing, and tackling, taking big marks, running to the right spots and kicking goals etc.
Castagna had some woeful games and thus he was picked on past reputation. Even when he was dropped Cumberland and Stack were playing better than Castagna but George got the nod and we all saw what happened after that, Aarts I can somewhat understand he was putting up big numbers in the ressies but so was collier dawkins and he ain't getting a look in.
I am not naive enough to think that the MC never makes mistakes, but I am also not arrogant enough to think because i disagree with them they must be wrong. (as an aside Lambsy is still bitter we got Hardwick and Port got Hinkley)
You've been saying it for months? 4 months ago Cumberland played rd 1 in the VFL. in his 1st 3 games he kicked 4 goals. Should he have started the year in the AFL?
3 months ago Cumberland returned after missing a month of football. should he have come straight into the ones then?
he then kicked 3 goals each game for the next 3 weeks.
2 months ago he made his 'debut' against the Swans, not making it onto the field after playing a half in the VFL
we then had the bye, so after playing 2 quarters of football in the previous 2 weeks Cumberland went back to the VFL, replaced as sub by Kane Lambert, while Clarke made his debut, which most were happy with.
a poor game in the VFL followed, then 3 games where he kicked multiple goals. he was then promoted.
It is worth noting we lost 2 games out of 9 before Cumberland's 2nd debut- to the Swans by 6, and to the Cats by 3, and were scoring freely. That suggests the MC were getting a lot right.