Why we need to be patient with DGB
Why the rhetoric around us wasting a pick 6 in the draft is simply emBARRASsing
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Despite some supporters getting restless, ANDREW WEISS remains bullish about the potential of Denver Grainger-Barras. He speaks to his former Swan Districts coach, the club, and cites an interview with the man himself to make the case for our 2020 draft hopeful.
At the end of his first season at the Hawthorn Football Club, the HI team had the pleasure of sitting down with Denver Grainger-Barras (herein referred to as DGB) to chat about all things 2021 and how it had unfolded.
One of the questions put to DGB was whether or not he felt any added expectations having been drafted so highly to a club that hadn’t had a top-10 selection since Mitch Thorp at pick six, some 14 years prior.
“I came to the conclusion that I hold myself to a very very high standard and I have a really high expectation of myself and I think that sort of drowns outside expectation,” he said.
“I want to be the best footy player that I can be personally because I know it would be the best thing for the footy team, so the expectation that I have has always drowned out the outside noise and that’s why I have coped with it very well.”
Wise words at the end of a debut season that included five senior appearances at the back end of the campaign.
But I wonder how he’s feeling right now? I wonder how easy it is to “drown out the outside noise?”
Because outside, it’s very noisy.