What Has Turned Around Bryce Gibbs ??

[Blue Moon]

Clearly some people are feeling the need to re-assess their views on Bryce Gibbs. However to really understand people should start from the premise they were wrong in their initial assessment rather than the premise they were right and Gibbs has changed. My view is that Gibbs has always been good. He has had some bad games like most players but overall I have always felt that by the end of his career he would be considered one of the great Carlton players and I have been watching Carlton for over fifty years now.
I think he has shown great loyalty to Carlton. A lot more loyalty than some people who post on this site have shown to him. It always bewilders me why so many so-called Carlton fans have been so ready to canvas his transfer to another club.
It has always struck me in the way he plays that he is trying to implement the Coach's instruction and the fact that he is so disciplined in his approach to the game that he has curbed his natural instinct to chase the ball and followed team instructions. We have played him at centre half back, tagging people like Adam Goodes and playing a loose man in defence, yet he won his B&F playing as a mid-fielder and he will go close to a second one this year doing the same. Maybe the problem has been that we have played him out of position all these years and maybe this year we finally have a group of players who can play as a team and follow team instruction and therefore Gibbs doesn't have to be pulled out of the mid-field to plug the gaps.
It might be a bit like Walker who looks like a natural full forward but has only played there for one full season throughout his career.