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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 2544621, member: 1899"] Good first up post, Craig welcome aboard! I do have to pick apart your comment on Taylor. You're by no means alone, it's something I've seen parroted a lot on here and it's really beginning to rustle my jimmies. Let me just say this, when did it become so offensive to juniors to serve their apprenticeship in the lower grades? I think it really reflects the impatience of contemporary society when people are so forth-right about a player deserving a selection on the back of a handful of good performances in the NYC - you'd barely hear of such entitlement a decade or more ago. Now that I sound like the world's oldest 23 year old, allow me to put it like this. One of the best halves in the modern game is Daly Cherry Evans (DCE for short). Now, tell me something, at what age did DCE debut? Tell me what age Cronk was given the starting halves role at Melbourne? What age was JT when he made a name for himself? etc. Players should only be handed their debuts in first grade when they're ready. Throwing them into the deep end only creates more problems. [/QUOTE]

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