He came 3rd while running against the 1st , 2nd year players and the talls, just beat Taz and Miller home by a couple of metres.
Yeah but the reported time is 'under 7 minutes'
Safe to assume thats in the 6.50's,
Which is left hand end of bell curve for a mid in the modern game,
Youde want some serious other tools to overcome that glaring weakness;
Blistering pace, big overhead game, mega tough, etc.
Young Narkle has some polish, but im not sure theres enough to overcome a 6.50's 2000m?
6.30 is pretty much the cut off for modern mids, without some other outstanding attribute to compensate.
Elijah Hollands, for example, a part-time mid doing his first preseason, got back from the off season fat, and ran 5.50. Hes essentially lapped a seasoned, svelte Narkle, after 6 weeks washing pork belly down with milk stouts