ryan2000 wrote:
Brettie wrote:
Geez Ryan, I reckon he's been one of our lone shining lights these past 3 horrific weeks. To charge in like he did head-on with the fat-arsed Richo barrelling down on him a couple of weeks back, then spinning out of harm's way with the ball in his hands & then coolly passing it off was pretty impressive stuff that even had Richmond supporters sitting up and taking notice.
Up until then I was very ho-hum about him, but these past 3 weeks have really opened my eyes to this bloke.....I think we might actually have a player here who can play!!!
I obviously haven't been paying him much respect then. I just wrote him of as another 'Wiggens' type player.
I'll have to start paying more attention now. But i gotta say, i've been at every game for the past 3 weeks and 90% of that time i usually just watch Kouta !
Ryan!? Remember the who-ha when we managed to snag Kade in (as AGRO put it) THAT draft, after he was touted as an early-ish pick?
The Carlton heirarchy thought that he would go much sooner.
His development has been outstanding for us this year (although it is still very early on - he hasn't played many games at all). His skills are undoubted - as is his pace - and I think that the MC have been waiting for him to develop a bit more bulk onto the skinny frame that he arrived at OO with.
He is one of the REAL bright lights for Carltons future, imo.
And it is good to see that he has a bit of grunt in him - doesn't seem to shirk a contest.