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I think the reasonable argument in favour of experience is not 'pick all the players with the most games played', it is that experience is a valuable trait in the context of a team that lacks it, when they also have talented and inexperienced players.

So the case in point would not be 'let's drop Rankine for Murphy because Murphy is more experienced', it would be having Murphy in the team over a debutant in his role that may or may not be better (i.e. not someone who is a generational talent we are leaving in the SANFL or something). So basically the perennial complaint on this board that we include experienced players of modest quality in the side instead of throwing a block of games at every young player on the list to see if they might be better.