03-24-2018, 05:28 AM
(03-24-2018, 04:32 AM)deags link Wrote:I keep hearing all of this hype regarding Byrne...If you saw him play before his knee injury, you would understand the hype and then some. The pace, in particular, the decent disposal, the marking: it was all there.
I'm yet to see him do anything remotely close to deserving the hype. Just can't understand where it comes from.
Since he returned he hasn't shown the same pace and his skills have been down. His decision making has not been optima either.
:-[ What he really needs at this point is a couple of weeks in the VFL to gain his confidence again. At the moment I don't think anyone trusts his skills like they did. He needs to be prepared to handball, rather than break tackles and he needs to hit the tackler at pace, or with a 'don't argue', so the tackles don't stick. It isn't a lot, but he needs to work on the details of his game.I don't mind taking guys on if he is going to break the tackle. At the moment he is not. He should have a few good sessions with Andrew McKay, who used to do the same thing. He needs to make sure his hands are free is he is tackled, and he needs to equipment to break the tackles, neither of which is impossible. As he gains more confidence in his knee, I hope to see him not slow down before the tackle, but to really run guys down.
Working on his decision making would also help.
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