Rd 3: Carlton vs Gold Coast: Post Game Pain

[Raydan]

You're writing off one of the few players that has improved over the last 9 months, after just 17 games, and saying he can improve no more? He's getting his hands on the ball at least 20 times a game and he can use it. Agree with the rest of what you wrote but this is just crazy stuff.

Haven't written him off, but I don't think he will get much better than what we see now. I hope I'm wrong, but all these comparisons to Mitchell are off the mark, as I said in my posts before mids hunt the ball, Nick seems to get around the ball. It's weird but even in Cripps' first season you could see the vision and the hands. I remember saying that his brain works faster than his skills allow, because he almost had it.

With Graham I think everything is there already, he'll improve with the team but he's a role player not a star.