He found more than a yard, great acceleration but what I liked was the poise to take a bounce because he knew he had the bloke chasing beaten!! Maybe just a little glimpse of something special.

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This bloke could be anything....I can see a Dominator type but with more class....

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You know special Yarran is... when you see the jump he got on his defender... because he reacted and read the situation so much earlier.
It wasnt really the pace that burnt the defender it was the anticipation . Yarran was off to it before the defender realised what was going on.

After that Yarran was on cruise control... with a deadly finish...

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I can't wait til he kicks 3-4 in a game. I really think he's capable of doing that soon. Maybe this week .

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I think this week is the perfect time for a Yazzz showcase

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Yep...Yazzamatazz will show neon leon who the best indigenous player is.

Surely has to win this week's M&D POTW! Would love to hear Yazza's thoughts on how he's progressing.. make it happen pls Mike & Dan

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Yazz spoke with Rex Hunt on 3aw after the win. Caught the ass end of the interview but said Eddie and Garlett are his best mates at the club and that Judd has been fantastic for him and taken him under his wing.

Cheers bax... love the bit in yellow above!

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Heard the interview with Rex.

I liked when he said that he is pretty fast, "you saw a bit of that today". I thought good onya kid, show some front. Need some confident players.

He's fast enough to run away from a defender and take a bounce.
Also, his confidence and balance on his left foot are incredible. He jusy looks like a left footer when he does it.
I've been waiting to see him do something special and now the wait is over. Just hope he gets a fair crack at it. I love Garlett as well. How are we going to fit them both in???? Yarran will have to go to the midfield or the HBF maybe.

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..easy to fit both yarran and garlett in the same team, just rotate them thru FP/HFF via the bench..

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Never got on the Rich vs Yazzadabbadoo debate ... Rich is undoubtably talented but he just looks too weird to be wearing the navy blue ... eyes too close together,manchild appearance, small hands,huge head etc etc

As for Yazz has he turned 18 yet .... just give him a little more time ... what we saw on the weekend will shut a few people up. In the end would we have gotten any further this year with Rich in the side .. possibly ... would we be challenging for the flag ... no.

Will Yazz add that x factor in the forward line in 1-2 years time ... yes .... will it add weight to getting the 17th ... yes.

NUFF SAID

Bevan is quick. Yarran is quicker. That was an electric goal. I suspect we'll only see glimpses over the next year and a bit. But all going well, there's a lot to be excited about. Looking forward to seeing him show what he can do on the lead as well.

A taste of things to come methinks. Electrifying.

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..Yaz did a couple of really nice [special] things on the weekend, no doubt.. ..he did a couple of other good things which is to be expected of pretty much everyone.. ..he gave a glimpse of talent and sublime skill when he's switched on.. .... ..Rich as 'odd' as he may look at times had 31 touches, and was BoG in terrible conditions.. ..he was also BoG last week vs cats with 32 touches..

..i think it comes down to what you think is more important to a team, silk and flash across HFF or tough contested clearance work in the guts.. ..would you prefer say burgoyne/stevie J, leon or would you prefer say black, voss, sewell..?.. ..personally i think getting the midfield right/complete is more important than adding class across the HFF.. ..i know we need another avenue to goal, but Rich kicks long penetrating bombs from outside 50 [a couple/few from inside center square], and his long zone/flood breaking passes to brownshaw have been unbelievable this year..

..and talk about Rich havin' limited upside in my opinion is absurd, and smacks of a need to convince oneself that passing on him was the right move.. ..it's like ppl sayin j Selwood has/had limited upside.. ..he's better now than last year, and better last year than his first year.. ..the Gibblet [who i rate highly], who has sooo much upside is still in Selwood's shadow.. ..limited upside is a crock in my opinion.. .to think a kid won't improve fitness/endurance, won't learn better tactics around stoppages, won't improve their skills or get tougher, footy smarter etc etc is v.bogus..

..again, reiterating that i don't think Yaz is a hack or anything like that at all, i reckon he's gonna be a good to v.good player [yet to be convinced he will be great, but too early to tell for most kids].. ..what i do think is that our current list was not at a point when we could pass on a player like Rich, for a player like Yaz.. ..for me it's more a list management concern.. ..it's not that i don't support Yaz, i was rapt with his couple flashes of brilliance just like any blueblood, and yes he should be good for us.. ..i just think our recruiters might have thought/believed our list was a year or two ahead of where it truely is..

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I don't care if Rich is a dual Brownlow winner. If we get good value from Yarran in terms of his commitment and performance, I'm happy. From what limited amount we've seen so far, we've got a very skilled and complete footballer at a very young age.

I hope he gets a taste of finals footy this year becasue that just might inspire him to a big pre-season.

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..i see yer point, no need for us to pull out our hair and gnash our teeth, what's done is done and we move on.. ....but let's not downplay what Rich offers though to console ourselves either.. ..to go as far as to say you don't care if a player [any player] that we passed on goes on to become a dual brownlow medal winner, and then say you'd be happy if we get good value out of our pick and it's all good i'm not so cool with.. ..if Rich does become a dual brownlow medal winner [doubtful, since it's so hard to become one let alone a dual winner], and Yaz is just 'good value' then i think it's safe to say we missed the boat..

..but yes, Yaz has shown a few glimpses of what he may go on to offer us, and i wish him good luck cos we all want him to succeed, and succeed well.. ..and especially for him [bottom-aged] he has time on his side to come good.. ..it's just our list could use him coming good sooner, rather than later.. ..and next year we still need a young kid [a 'Rich' type] to give us what our a-grade midfield lacks..

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I think quite the contrary. Sure, our midfield probably isn't as good as advertised, but blame Stevens, Scotland and Hadley, we may have to move on without them and that does mean our midfield stocks take quite a bit of a blow. Saying that we still have Judd, Murphy, Carrots, Gibbs, Grigg and Simpson. It's another area of the ground we really have neglected and taken for granted and an area that has almost been swept under the rug. An unorganized part of the ground, which until settled there won't be any kind of real surge...

In our back line, Thornton has been the centerpiece for quite a while, but the recruiters struck gold with Jamison and didn't disgrace by using a top 20 pick on a defender in Bower. Add in Austin and the last three or four drafts have really benefitted our backline.

In the Ruck is where we really have sacrificed our picks. Kreuzer (First round Priority Pick), Hampson (Second Round Priority Pick) and Warnock (for two draft picks). Sam Jacobs was a bonus.

Now it gets ugly...
Hartlett (Pick 25 2004)
Raso (Last pick 2004)
Kennedy (Pick 4 2005)
Eddie Betts (Pre Season 2005)
Edwards (Pick 36 2005)

So, for the previous 4 drafts these are the players we have drafted who are the forwards we had relied on to help us kick winning scores. To make things worse, without going into details, we traded the most important one away. Without Betts, what have we got to show for our efforts to revolutionize our forward line. I don't think there is a club who had neglected the forward set up as badly as us, Richmond included. You could say The Shag is the broom that sweeps the forward line issues under the carpet. Well not anymore, our recruiters bit the bullet, passed on Rich and picked the best young forward of last year. Quite frankly there were too many reasons not to pick up Chris Yarran, this also includes Yarran being a creative forward with the necessary skills and ability to complement his creativeness to extraordinary effect.

In my perspective I can live with seeing Rich destroying midfields and defenses with his IQ, penetrating left boot, toughness and vision, but I don't think I would handle it as well if Yazz was on another team tearing a team up with his ambidextrous silky skills, blistering speed, instinctive awareness and goal kicking threat. That is exactly what we need.

Here's an additional argument... Some years ago Collingwood had the option of trading away their highly skilled creative X-Factor for a hard working talented midfielder with a penetrating accurate kick. Even though they desperately needed a midfielder, they chose to keep their X Factor. I'm sure you know, Didak and Nick Stevens were the two players involved.

Samblueboy.. .... ..agreed, our forward line needed help.. ..but the ball needs to get there first..

..also, even if Stevo and Snotland were having good years they're both 25+ and not gonna be building up with our young midfield engine-room under Juddles.. ..plus Stevo's game-style flaws and bad neck injury meant he never should have been relied upon to help carry the mids, hell he never was a real mid but more a wingman [or was at port, and i still think it's his natural position].. ..we haven't used Snotland in the guts for ages, and Hadley has yet to prove his body is up to AFL week in, week out.. ..our midfield's a-grade talent is Judd and Murphos, with the Gibblet close to becoming a-grade [if he ever spends consecutive games playing mostly midfield].. ..b-graders to push through there i would say are Carrots and Simmo, Stevo too when playing,, Grigga sneaking into b-grade too.. ..but we don't use Simmo too much through the midfield admittedly, Betts only gets used sparingly in there too..

..i reckon another a-grade mid is required to give us real midfield dominance, which is essential nowadays to really compete with the premiership contenders.. ..teams have shown that you can win a flag with a killer engine room [weagles and catters].. ..also the main reason for the brions hat-trick.. ..sure they had good KPF's, but those games were won and lost in the guts.. ..they weren't the fab-four fer nothin', and there's been some good midfields around the traps over the years.. ..our mid-field lacks that in and under bullocking type player, and in fact we're forced to use Juddles as our contested clearance king.. ..also, none of our mids are blessed with a truely penetrating boot.. ..another tool required vs the zone/flood tactics.. ..it's like we left the midfield jigsaw puzzle before we finished putting all the pieces into place..

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