Quote: Mugwump "And there was I thinking experience is a product of the [inumber of games played[/i. Clearly we can now dispense with this pretence, pick all our rookies for the next Grand Final and watch them turn into fully-fledged first teamers in the space of eighty minutes (or less).'"
It's not so much the number of games played as the context. Every play off and grand final game played is worth 10 of a normal, low intensity SL game.
The likes of Foster and Makinson are established in the first team, they've been around the block enough times to be relied upon, given that the alternatives are no better and even more prone to errors. I'd go with youth in the backs next season, unless we can sign someone genuinely worth taking one of their places.