You're suggesting Lyon, Watmough, Foran, Williams and the Stewarts provide no competition for Dally M points? You're an idiot.
They don't supply enough opposition as individuals every game. Watmough waits for a leap year and the rest take turns.
Glen Stewart is Manly's best player imo as is Smith for Melbourne imo. I digress. As a group your Manly men offer a lot
of competition for DCE but either through injury or poor form the others are never hot on his heels.
Melbourne haven't lost a game and have two eye catching players. Great for the media but not so good for Cronk or Slater
when one must have two points and the other three when they both deserve three and imo in most games Cronk, Slater and Smith deserve 3 each.
On the other hand, DCE could be the best player in the comp and he might be the reason his team doesn't get flogged,
only just beaten. In that case he will never get the points he deserves.