Mark Parsons played a clearly unfit player for 100+ mins, knew why Paul Riley was fired & said nothing publicly, at best was ignorant of the myriad of shit going on at Portland. So ACFC thought, let's get a bunch of young, inexperienced players & put them in the hands of this man
also on a like stupid, petty note: winning shit at portland during the years that he did with the team he had & the fan base, organization, structure? make me GM, i could've done that. and as a bonus wouldn't break the player of a generation.