JLT game 3

[PaulP]

I suspect his reluctance is partly due to the fact that he commonly has the ball in the 'thick of it' and because he doesn't want to turn the ball over. His foot-passing skills are not much better than Curnow's so the more hand-balling the better - Curnow could do likewise - as long as the ball is hand-passed to Murphy, Simpson and decent exponents of the foot pass.

Yes, I would agree with all that. He is the best contested ball player in the comp - that's beyond dispute. But I really want him to be good at other things too. I want him to win the Brownlow. I want him to win the Leigh Matthews Trophy. He has the right attitude, and i have no doubt is working hard on his deficiencies.