In 2009 Lowrie had a sensational year at Parra. Since he moved to Melbourne, he's done a typical Melbourne forwards job. Plod forward, hold down in the ruck, let Bosh, D-Wade and LBJ score the buckets off the back of them. I thought however he was exceptional in the grand final. If I was Elijah Taylor I'd be fairly disappointed that he was coming, I thought Elijah defended very well this year. Taylor also has fairly good ball skills and balance, when he wasn't required to make 50 tackles a game because they were completing a decent percentage of their sets he showed a lot of skill in the NYC team. In many ways, I think Lowrie and Taylor are fairly similar.
I hope Lowrie goes back to what he did in 2009, because he was absolutely exceptional that year. That was the biggest gee up of all time. Absolute dud at Newcastle, fans horribly disappointed with him at Parra, and then like the rest of the team exploded and started playing ball like a second reincarnation of John Stockton.
