Forum Phoenix
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Ha. Pot stirrer. He didn't "burst" Style. It was a well timed run but at a completely unremarkable speed. It was his calm and presence of mind to look up and pick out Smylie that impressed me in that goal.We did see him burst down the sideline at Macarthur and again when he caused the own goal against Sydney,leaving defenders in his wake...
Second goal. Sydney just let him run down the wing again and there was not an any kind of, wow look at that kid go, kind of speed.
Not taking anything away from those two great contributions, I'm hoping the kid can outrun a cheetah now, but I don't see how anyone could honestly have watched our game and gotten the impression that Bouman is a speed demon. If he's the fastest in our squad, now he's on the wing, he needs to be regularly making those runs and Nigro needs to be releasing him a hell of a lot more. And or playing him as second striker and looking to get in behind. Matty has had some killer balls that he doesn't have the pace to capitalise on.