Anyway on to Bryan, he was delisted last year by Collingwood after a very average career. The thing I remember about him (didn't play for my team) is that he was more of a small ruckman, which is normally the tallest player in the team who contests the ruck contest, where the ball is either bounced up or thrown in, and his job is to tap the ball down to a speedy, midfielder. The ruckman is also normally the player who's the worst kick on the team.
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He may have played other positions, I don't really remember, I think he was a tall defender (again, not the best kicks).

Anyway the thing about the three other ex-AFL punters is that they were all goalscoring forwards. Lead out, take a mark, walk back and kick the ball through the goals. Big strong guys with tremendous kicking abilities.

Chris Bryan, in my humble opinion, is nowhere close to those three in natural kicking ability. He may adapt better to the different ball, but even on the video he looks slow, and I doubt he could kick it as far as the others.

I don't have high hopes for him, I would have preferred Rocca's younger brother Anthony who recently retired, but we shall see.

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