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Message: [QUOTE="nopatience101, post: 2482408, member: 1755"] The problem with scouts these days is that they want the athlete first and the footballer second. The approach is misguided, it is a lot easier to turn a footballer into an athlete than to turn an athlete into a footballer. Similarly, you can have all the skills in the world but if your short between the ears it counts for very little, skills can be taught, practised and perfected, vision, while maybe not impossible, is a hell of a lot harder to learn. Alf is the classic example, his skills weren't polished but his footy brain was. This is what Hunt imo possesses and has demonstrated in his very limited opportunities in the halves, there is a thought process, when he passes the ball back on the inside 10m out from the try line it's not a settler play, its because he reads the defensive line short up the middle, same with his kicks, they don't always come off but there is purpose to them other than a hail mary on the last. I'm not suggesting hes the next alfie or even the solution to our halves problem, the fact is we won't know what he is until he is given a fair opportunity. There is just these little glimpses in his games that suggest he is a footballer first. Wallace is a good organiser and given structure he can stick to it, but he doesn't read the game well and will often get caught out when sticking to a structure and the defense doesn't act the way he expected, a half has to be two steps ahead and reacting to whats in front of them, not what the defense was doing in an opposed session at training during the week. [/QUOTE]

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