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Message: [QUOTE="Kooly87, post: 3227436, member: 9326"] This is what I can't fathom about the Walsh advocates, it's like they've just built him up to be this kid in his 20's who's already earned his stripes in the lower grades and is ready to light up the NRL. In reality though he's a school kid and comparing him to Laurie is just not based in any reality that you could actually justify. Laurie is 21, has already finished a season of Flegg in 2018 where he was the player of the year. He's played U18's Origin. He's already played part of a season of NSW Cup and been promoted to the NRL squad at Penrith and now the Tigers where he's already played half a dozen or so NRL games at this level. Making a call on the ability of a player who has done all that is probably just barely reasonable, but even I'd accept that it's not reasonable by much so early on. Walsh has just turned 18 and hasn't even played Queensland Cup yet. He's Daine Laurie three years ago and still essentially totally untested at senior level and playing outside his age group. He's a promising schoolboy prospect and that's about it right now until the evidence says otherwise. He might be amazing, I sincerely hope he is because we desperately need it. But to be making a call like that when you haven't seen him play and don't even have any senior football success that you didn't see that you could rely on, the comparison is just not based in reality and purely on hope and hype. [/QUOTE]

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