News Leading from the back...

[ThePuppetMaster]

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/leading-from-the-back-20110611-1fyl1.html

Nice article on Jared Rivers, his struggles with injury and confidence, as well as his leadership ability.

He has played some great footy this year, especially against Essendon where I though he was a clear BOG.

SITTING in the cafe at Melbourne's headquarters on Thursday, Jared Rivers got a good look at the vision he'd seen only fleetingly. As a wall-mounted screen showed Dean Bailey slamming an exultant fist into the perspex roof above the MCG bench six days earlier, Rivers's smile turned into a hearty laugh.

The laws of football's fishbowl dictate that even Bailey's reaction to beating Essendon had to be questioned, as if holding the Demons' coach up to the light for much of the previous month wasn't adequate dissection. For Rivers, Bailey's emotional release was a joy to behold. It was also the culmination of a personal Rivers' watershed.

The 26-year-old is not given to self-doubt in a purely football sense; so long as his body has been strong, he's backed himself against the game's biggest and best forwards. Some of the associated expectations of the professional team-sport athlete haven't come so naturally.......

 

[Tulip]

Nie article.

Riv will get better qand better this year IMO