Re: What Has Turned Around Bryce Gibbs ??
Reply #82 –
It has always struck me in the way he plays that he is trying to implement the Coach's instruction and the fact that he is so disciplined in his approach to the game that he has curbed his natural instinct to chase the ball and followed team instructions. We have played him at centre half back, tagging people like Adam Goodes and playing a loose man in defence, yet he won his B&F playing as a mid-fielder and he will go close to a second one this year doing the same.
This, i reckon this is spot on. I remember once hearing that he was so dominant in his junior days, that his coaches had to strictly tell him to share the ball around with his team mates. He was good enough to dominate on his own, but he was forced to change the way he played. Now that he is playing at the top level, he needs to be allowed to dominate again, not selfishly, but when he can or when necessary.