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I had 10 minutes to spare this evening waiting for a bus so I popped into Borders and picked up a copy of The Draft, which I think was just published yesterday. It follows the prospects of 5 likely draftees in their year before last year's draft - one of them being Vezspremi. I've only just dipped into bits of it but I suspect it's required reading for anyone on here fascinated by what kind of player he might become. Which I suspect might be pretty much every RWO member...
A snippet or two:
The book is written by The Age's Emma Quayle. I wonder if Caro had pre-read a copy (I am pretty sure she would have had access to one) and that was what lead her to commenting on Vez's goal celebrations on Saturday night. After all, they weren't really that OTT for an 18 year old still in his first few games of senior footy.
Overall the picture that seems to be painted of him is someone who knew he had some talent but was still insecure about how much and whether he'd get to live his dream. Which is weird because first time I saw him play, out on Bus Stop Oval back in March, he struck me as someone who knew exactly how good he was. (Which I don't think is a bad thing at all.)
A snippet or two:
Pat was 17 and badly wanted to play AFL football. He'd wanted it ever since he was eight, when he went to the MCG for the first time...Nathan Buckley kicked a goal from the 50-metre line that day...The crowd roared and Pat glanced around, imagining how amazing it would feel if all those people were cheering for him.
(Peter Kennedy) thought the criticism was a little too much but passed it on nonetheless. There's a time and a place, he told Pat. "It's good to celebrate when there's 5 points the difference 30 minutes into the last quarter, but when you're 15 goals up and you kick a goal, you don't need to do a war dance or shoot arrows in the sky"...Pat could hardly believe it at first. But..."I can see what they mean. Sort of. But it's not every day you get to kick a goal for Australia".
The book is written by The Age's Emma Quayle. I wonder if Caro had pre-read a copy (I am pretty sure she would have had access to one) and that was what lead her to commenting on Vez's goal celebrations on Saturday night. After all, they weren't really that OTT for an 18 year old still in his first few games of senior footy.
Overall the picture that seems to be painted of him is someone who knew he had some talent but was still insecure about how much and whether he'd get to live his dream. Which is weird because first time I saw him play, out on Bus Stop Oval back in March, he struck me as someone who knew exactly how good he was. (Which I don't think is a bad thing at all.)
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