I reckon Ballas opponent would have got much more of the ball than Sutcliffes opponents against Hawthorn.
Wallsys only a month or so back from his very extended sojourns around France, and maybe saving up to go back again, and knows that to get paid as a columnist the has to write some sledgehammer criticism, so he probably missed that Ballantyne was an all-australian last year. He and Barlow are in that age bracket where they have to play leadership roles with McPharlin and Pavlich likely to go, along with the likely exit of Sandilands, Johnson and Mundy in a couple of years time.
Like Larkin, Chris Scott said something similarly mildy lateral on ABC Radio's Saturday Agenda where they had quite a long discussion about the Fremantle vs Hawthorn prelim final (along with McKenna, McLure and Whately).
www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-26/saturday-...807252?section=sport
His comment was that it was the top 15 players that win you games rather than the bottom 6 players who lose you games.
