it is so clear watching him that the stats don't tell the story of his game. There were a number of times last night when he ran 50 or 70 metres at pace and closed down an option without necessarily laying a tackle or making a smother, so he doesn't even get a 1%er stat. And he seemed to have licence to move up the ground—he was sometime all the way up at HBF, and then would run past the pack to set up in a forward pocket. He just looked 'on', running on top of the grass, and looking like he was having a great time.
And for the record, I was not on the dump Gaz bandwagon last year. Love him.
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