At the start of last season, I like everyone else iddn't think too much of ryan and wanted him dropped for his poor defence at times, his lack of speed and sometimes creativity in attack among a few things.
But as the season went on he became a valuable member of the team.
I think i began to respect him in the parramatta game, tuiaki had just been taken off, beau injured his knee whilst scoring a try and when he came off we were in all sort of trouble.
lui on the wing with morris as his centre, lawrence and ayshford on the other wing/centre pairing i believe.
those combinations were obviously sheens' fault, why lawrence just couldn't have pushed to the wing and have morris inside him with lui staying in the halves and ayshford on the wing but i digress.
when i saw beau ryan coming back onto the field I actually said thank god for that. His courage to come back out injured helped to steady the ship, we didn't win but he did enough tio gain a litttle bit of respect from a few fans i think.