Ryan Normington – Murray Bushrangers
186cm, 76kgJunior position: Midfield
Projected AFL position: Outside mid

Midfield Outside midStrengths
Kicking
Decision making

Weaknesses
A bit outside
Quickness

Question marks
Is there much room for improvement with him? Will he develop a more contested side to his game?

Comments
Normington is a left footer with very good kicking skills who plays as a tall midfielder. He is one who was very high on the radar as a 16 year old but has gradually slipped in draft calculations over the past couple of years.

His disposal by foot is a key feature of his game and like most guys who are good kicks he is pretty good at decision making too. The main advantage with his kicking is that it is rather damaging and he is the sort of guy that accumulates stats, so that makes for a good combination. Normington is not someone who strikes you as very quick, but he has a fair bit of class and can put his foot down to get out of traffic.

He doesn’t typically go in to get his own ball and is more of a receiver. He will need to work on this aspect of his game because at this stage he is a little one dimensional in that regard.

Around the ball he has a good work rate and runs hard when he’s in the play, as indicated by a high number of handball receives at TAC Cup level, but his work rate when out of the play could use a bit of improvement.

Apart from his kicking there isn’t a huge amount that stands out in his game. He spent a month on the sidelines leading up to the finals, played Round 18 but not the Qualifying Final and just didn’t look right in the GF after being alright in the Prelim.

Late chance/undrafted.

Stats
2007 TAC Cup Season
12 games played
5.10
160 kicks (112 of them effective)
70 handballs (49 effective)
77 handball receives
17 tackles
8 contested marks
52 uncontested marks