Don't know if it's been mentioned and don't have the time to read the hundreds of posts but Justin poore really stood up last night. I thought he had a very good game. Also ... Just how good is Matt Ryan going to be as a footballer ?
Beyond his first 5-6 weeks of 2010, Poore has only really had a handful of bad games in my opinion. He has copped alot of criticism about been a terrible signing due to the value of his contract and his injury last year certainly didn't help to dispel that popular line of thought. He and Fui are the closest things to enforcers in our pack, which is a pretty tough gig at Parra and I would not be against the club retaining him for somewhere around $200k.
The emergence of Matt Ryan is a pretty big deal, assuming he can keep producing what he has shown us. While he certainly isn't a devastating ball runner ala T-Rex, a tall, rangy back rower with a mean fend, footwork and more than handy ball playing skills (how good was that haynesque cut-out pass?) at the price he would be costing us is a great player to have in your best seventeen.
