The things that Currie has in his favour are firstly his size. Even as still a pretty young bloke, he's got some decent bulk about him. No Andrew Erikson here.
And secondly, he doesn't seem afraid of physical contact. Again, no Andrew Erikson here.
He also looks pretty mobile - no Dean Cox but certainly no Ricky Mott either. And his skills look decent too.
He's still got some way to go yet though. While he seems to want to use his height and bulk to advantage, I watched him in one piece of play in the game against the U18 game a few weeks ago. He was one-on-one up forward against a guy shorter, smaller and younger than him. He had back position and the kick coming in should have been to his advantage as it had some good depth on it. He watched the ball all the way, held his opponent out with his hip and as the ball arrived tried to nudge the player in front with his hip. The instincts were all right, but he forgot to actually mark the ball.
I watched him do something very similar against Belconnen a fortnight ago.
The reports we have from One4 from last week's game were that he and White were outclassed last week in the ruck by the Tigers. He certainly didn't dominate in the middle the week before against Belconnen.
I am pretty confident we have a ruckman of the future and I don't think he's years away. But realistically I think it's expecting too much for him to come in this season and have any kind of impact.