Robin Nahas feature article
Source: RealFooty
Written by: Brent Diamond
RICHMOND forward Robin Nahas took it in his stride during a visit to Craigieburn Primary School when a year-five student shouted to him: "You look like one of us!"
Tiger teammates — including Graham Polak, Luke McGuane, Jake King and Dean Polo — broke into broad grins. Said Nahas: "Yeah, I've heard it all before."
"A few of my mates give me a lot of stick for being so small," Nahas said. "Obviously the bigger bodies make a major impact, but I have to be smart enough and quick enough to not let it worry me."
At 176 centimetres and 67 kilograms — he put on four kilos during the pre-season — Nahas, 21, is one of the smallest players in the AFL, but a trend in the modern game to take a chance on smaller, faster players led to him being selected in last year's AFL rookie draft.
In his third season at Port Melbourne in the VFL last year, Nahas was inspired to play an attacking forward role by the likes of Cyril Rioli at Hawthorn and speedy duo Lindsay Thomas and Matt Campbell at North Melbourne. Then there's Carlton's Eddie Betts, Geelong's Mathew Stokes, Essendon's Alwyn Davey and Leroy Jetta and Melbourne's Aaron Davey — it seems as if almost every team has a "little fella" these days.
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