indiana wrote:

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paulisi wrote:

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That was a very good win for Ryan. Having seen him a couple of times, he should be chasing Jay Clarke up the rankings. Just needs to stay fit and healthy and get some confidence.

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That looks to have become a bit of an ask for the foreseeable. 

I have thought in the past that Jay and Ryan were the then juniors to watch as they moved into seniors. For now though Jay is an absolutely different league to Ryan as well as the others of roughly the same age.

Ryan needs to stay fit and healthy and start really getting significant results before they again really enter the same conversation.

Jay is setting high benchmarks.

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'Tis trus, 'tis true...

Jay and Ryan are my two 'fiver' bet 1998-ers, from when they were both 16. And I'm happy with both. But the two are certainly not in the same space at the moment.

Leaving injuries aside, my feeling is that Jay has a wonderfully solid, stable coaching set-up/team. I know he was in Sweden a while but there seems to be a good continuity about his coaching development. Ryan, on the other hand, seems to have had problems finding a similar stability in his base since moving to the UK. He's tried several different set-ups, I believe, and not quite found one, it seems to me, that has completely clicked. It makes it difficult....