Ethan Strange exemplifies an impressive recruitment strategy, potentially inspiring a future movie release.
Ethan Strange is the poster boy for a recruitment strategy that we might just be watching a movie about one day.
Quite possibly, it could be released just after October 5.
Inside the Canberra Raiders boardroom of their head office at Braddon, an 18-year-old Strange, his father John and mother Adele, sat opposite the late and great recruitment officer Peter Mulholland and head coach Ricky Stuart.
It was 2022.
Mulholland and his recruitment understudy Joel Carbone had spent more than a year watching film of Strange dominate matches, almost in the same fashion that we witnessed in golden-point extra-time on Friday night against the Panthers.
The speed off the mark, the power through his hips,...