After serious surgery, the young Blues star is running hot at the right time for Carlton.
Sam Walsh’s fondness for running developed while living in Darwin just before he became a teenager.
“I always enjoyed going for a run because I always thought it helped my footy. In junior footy I always thought the more contests I can get to the more I can impact the game,” Sam Walsh says. “We went at a fair click. It’s cool to look back on.” He trained hard, and played hard too, with the rewards arriving as regularly as Darwin’s wet season. It was
“I always want to train how I play, which I can still do, but instead of doing 150 ground balls I’m doing 30 [ground balls] and doing Pilates,” Walsh says.Andrew Russell has prepared some of the best athletes the game has seen, including Shane Crawford and Cyril Rioli at Hawthorn and Charlie Curnow at the Blues.
“What I can bring to the team is being able to win the ball on the inside but also spread hard and connect through the lines,” Walsh said.the two goals he kicked in the Blues’ win over Melbourne in the semi-finalHe ran like he’d stolen something to put himself in a position to receive the ball in space and finished to kick two goals, a feat he has managed four other times. In those four games, he has polled 11 Brownlow votes. After the semi-final, he received 10 coaches’ votes.
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