- Banned
- #1
Edit: firstly, that green smiley face is not meant to be in the title. I do not know how that got there, but that little poltergeist has snuck into my title without my knowledge. Ignore him. He is not relevant and only detracts from the serious nature of what I have to say below.
I've been giving this long and careful thought, folks of the MFC, and I don't say what I am about to say lightly. In fact, it is with a grave countenance and a gaze of declination that I must reveal this.
In recent times I have had the opportunity to view Nic Naitanui attempt to play at our great game. I have watched him in the final, in lead up matches, I even watched him slam dunk over a commentator at half time in some Perth basketball match. The feeling, nay, conviction!, I came away with was that he was by far the most graceful, the most able, the most talented, the most comfortable, the most skillful, when he was slam dunking over the commentator in the basketball match.
This man is not a footballer. He can jump high (hence the slam dunk), he can run fast, but beyond that on the football field he is like a blind giraffe trying to catch a Kelpie at it's feet.
Unlike Izzy Folau and Karmichael Hunt, Naitanui did not dominate a similar football code first. He did not prove an innate ability to exceed, to excel. All he proved thus far was that he could jump, and run. Well, there's a sport already for people who can do that, it's called runny jumpy. Or he could do the long jump.
However, what he cannot do, is play football. He simply cannot.
Jack Watts, however, can. He may blind turn no one, but he knows where the ball is, how to get to it, and he knows how to kick, very well. Sometime in 2012 it will click for Jack, and after that point it shall be forever realised that from 2012 onwards, Watts >>> Naitanui.
I've been giving this long and careful thought, folks of the MFC, and I don't say what I am about to say lightly. In fact, it is with a grave countenance and a gaze of declination that I must reveal this.
In recent times I have had the opportunity to view Nic Naitanui attempt to play at our great game. I have watched him in the final, in lead up matches, I even watched him slam dunk over a commentator at half time in some Perth basketball match. The feeling, nay, conviction!, I came away with was that he was by far the most graceful, the most able, the most talented, the most comfortable, the most skillful, when he was slam dunking over the commentator in the basketball match.
This man is not a footballer. He can jump high (hence the slam dunk), he can run fast, but beyond that on the football field he is like a blind giraffe trying to catch a Kelpie at it's feet.
Unlike Izzy Folau and Karmichael Hunt, Naitanui did not dominate a similar football code first. He did not prove an innate ability to exceed, to excel. All he proved thus far was that he could jump, and run. Well, there's a sport already for people who can do that, it's called runny jumpy. Or he could do the long jump.
However, what he cannot do, is play football. He simply cannot.
Jack Watts, however, can. He may blind turn no one, but he knows where the ball is, how to get to it, and he knows how to kick, very well. Sometime in 2012 it will click for Jack, and after that point it shall be forever realised that from 2012 onwards, Watts >>> Naitanui.
