“He’s powerful. He wants to pressure. I can see an opportunity for him to take his game to another level, and I think it just suits what his make-up is. He is a power athlete. Get out there, run hard, go and have a spell, whereas you can’t do that as defender. You get stuck out there a little bit.
“His game time will be a bit lower so he can go out and do all the powerful things.”
When full-forward Lynch plays – and he is tracking to a return in the early rounds,
if not round one, after missing eight months last year – Balta will play higher.
“Noah can get up the ground and, with his speed, get in behind (the defence). I see some huge upside in him. And he’ll miss a goal from the top of the goal square, which will be frustrating, but that’s OK, we live with that, because of what he can do. I’m excited by what I’m seeing so far.”
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