Burns deserved this award but credit should also go to Ernie as prior to him coming to us Nathan was pretty average.
Burns was one of the best prospects in the league while at Adelaide.
FTFY
No, he was one of the best players. Him and Djite carved teams up.
He also scored Adelaide's first hat-trick before scoring our first.
He played for Adelaide from 2006 to 2008 and since then he has been average. Have a look and see what he did between 08 and 14. I'm not disputing his ability, I merely pointed out that Ernie helped him a lot. Just to add that in two seasons at Adelaide he only scored 9 goals.
Oh, no doubt he had a few bad years - but that was mostly due to the team environments that he was in and injury issues it seems. Just making the point that he was already a very good player, especially in the A-League ; Ernie has done well to mould him into more of a striker than a traditional winger though.
That is exactly my point.
He was very average in the 4/5 years before he came to us. Are you having a bad day or just looking to be obstreperous.
Obstreperous - one of the world's greatest words IMHO


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