I think with his return from injury I've generally assessed Gary's performance with considerations of "getting game time into him/signs for the future/how is he moving/how has he recovered after it/is shy of contact"; the game against Hawthorn was probably the first time I didn't need to add those considerations to my assessment of his game, and found myself purely judging him as an AFL level player.
He was very good, his defensive work really was excellent- I noticed he the most 1%ers for us with 8, overall he was beaten in that category only by Gibson who had 12. It seemed to me that the speed and pressure of the game simplified things for him a little bit and he could just play on instinct.
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