Harley Reid is taking all before him in his launching AFL season. In a simple 9 video games of footy, the 19-year-old has actually catapulted West Coast back into relevance after what has actually been the darkest duration in the club’s current history. ENJOY THE VIDEO ABOVE: Harley Reid discusses ‘intimidating’ truth of his brand-new life. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Last year’s No. 1 draft choice is equaling the blistering very first years of young super stars Nick Daicos and Sam Walsh over the last few years, with numerous thinking he has actually currently passed them. It’s produced an out of proportion hysteria around one gamer, the similarity which the competitors has actually never ever seen– definitely not this early in a profession. With such supremacy comes extreme analysis and attention, as the Victorian is discovering– the difficult method– in his embraced home of Perth. “It’s clearly hard. It gets to you at phases,” Reid stated of the attention he now gets in daily life, speaking with Channel 7’s Talking Footy. “For me, it was type of simply taking it each stride as I go. Harley Reid is starring on the field while browsing his very first year out of home. Credit: Getty “It’s clearly hard, it’s intimidating at such a young age like me. “Just little things I can’t actually do without somebody there or somebody watching. I simply attempt to let my footy do the talking.” Reid had actually currently been on the back page of regional paper The West Australian 25 times, consisting of for 17 days in a row, before he had actually even played a video game. He has actually lived there nearly completely since. Head here to see complete replays of Talking Footy The teen states coach Adam Simpson is assisting him take it in his stride. “There’s a couple of they’ve done me filthy, however I like the ‘Boss Baby’ (when Reid was illustrated as the character on The West’s back page recently), that was a quite cool one,” Reid stated. “Me and ‘Simmo’ in fact … he gets a couple of amusing ones in there too, so we see who’s got the worst one however I believe he’s winning that.” The explosive midfielder produced the pièce de résistance of his brief profession on Sunday night versus Melbourne, leaving recognized super star Christian Petracca in his wake as he took 3 bounces lacking the centre bounce blockage to kick among the objectives of the year. Teenage weapon Harley Reid is continuing to wow Eagles fans with his virtuoso display screens. Credit: AAP After the match, he was mobbed by young kids in the triumphant Eagles spaces. “(I’ve got a) terrific assistance network over here. It’s great to see those kids being available in,” Reid informed Talking Footy. “I believe ‘Gov’s’ child, Huddo, had a little celebration for his birthday today really. It was a quite cool minute for them to come over, provide me a high-five and get a flick. It was quite wholesome.” Not even midway through his very first year, speculation over his future is currently running swarming as Victorian clubs keep a really close eye on the Tongala-born wunderkind. Their eyes would have illuminated when he today confessed to commemorating his “worst” birthday over in Western Australia, along with missing his sibling’s But on Wednesday night Reid rapidly looked for to clarify his remarks from earlier in the week. “I do not actually feel that I’ve been homesick at all,” Reid stated. “You’re so hectic over here and the club’s been big (in) that remark. “I believe for me it’s been great to escape; you enter into a brand-new home, you discover brand-new things. I have not done life without my household, so it’s excellent for a modification. “I would not state I’ve felt homesick at all, I simply seemed like it was a good time of year to return and see my friends and family. “I do not truly understand Perth at all so I do not truly understand where to go, however the club’s been big, Simmo’s provided me little outlets to go and I attempt escape when I can, however you get quite hectic sometimes and you do not actually understand what to do with yourself.” Register to our everyday newsletter to get all the greatest sports stories provided into your inbox
Harley Reid confesses public examination is ‘clearly hard’ in blistering launching AFL year
