we all would but lets not get ahead of ourselves - first stop lets hope he becomes an afl standard player in a few years.
So it's alright to hope he's as good as Gale but not to hope he's better?
hope is fine - the way you worded the first quote "I'd like to think he would be better" just came across as a bit premature and unrealistic given what hes shown to date.
Actually reminded me of a poster on BF who said the same thing about Daniel jackson(when he debuted)in response to me when I said given his size, speed, strength and mongrel he could hopefully turn into a James Clement type medium defender and a poster scoffed saying I'd like to think he would be better than james Clement. lol
sorry probably being a bit picky with your play on words