Averaging 2 or 3 goals a game in 10 or less games is nothing special, and definitely not enough evidence to prove reid is a better forward than darling, majority of them could even be against lowly opposition. When he can do it for an entire season, then you have a leg to stand on.
25 goals in 7 games at 3.5 a game that would equate to 78 for the season
Like I said I wasn't making a statement about Darling. I just wanted to correct you on your Reid statement.
And apart from one season Darling has done nothing of note. Also I said at full fitness Reid is a far greater player. Not far greater forward as You took the comment to mean, he would be at least the equal of Darling as a forward and has in the past been an All Australian CHB.
Yeah fully fit and in form I would think Reid would kick 50 in a year
Yeah you can have your opinion mate, but until it happens it's all speculation, and an 8 game sample against crap and average opposition hardly represents how he would go over a full season.
Yeah so he only played forward against s**t teams? Yet all the teams were mid table or better
So tell me the last time Darling was All Australian? Oh wait he has never made it. Reid would be as good as a forward but his versatility is what makes him a far better footballer. LeCras was elite a few years back but he is no better than Elliott now and Jamie will keep improving. I am not interested in your pathetic excuse it is clear we don't agree and are not going to
3 goals against brisbane - 12th
So on the basis that ben reid was all australian as a backman, once, he is a better forward than jack darling who just turned 23? Reid MIGHT be as good a forward if he can ever play more than 8 games in a season as a forward, and kick goals against better opposition than he has in the past, until then it's just wishful thinking. Lecras is still elite now, a lot of people have him in their all australian teams so far. All you have shown is you don't know anything about mark lecras, and you are insulting jack darling's skill as a forward by comparing reid's decent 8 games against average/s**t opposition.
Hahahahahaha biggest load is s**t, you dismiss Reid saying he only plays well against s**t sides and was only once an All Australian then say I insulted Jack Darling. You are a special one. As I said I am over your pathetic excuses we are clearly not going to agree so let's just agree to go our separate ways. Goodbye and good luck for the year.
I love it you were just moaning about Brown and McKenzie being out but in you need to try and discredit Ben Reid you just labeled Eric McKenzie, Mitch Brown and Darren Glass average/s**t quality key defenders. Do you realise that ladder position does not dictate the quality of your key defenders
Not a load of s**t at all, it's the truth. I didn't say reid only plays well against s**t sides, i said he has averaged 3 goals a game against average/s**t sides, completely different things. Reid may turn out to be a superstar forward but like i said before, 8 games against mainly s**t sides is nowhere near a big enough sample size, and until he can replicate it for a whole season, it's just wishful thinking.
Well I am more than happy with him only being able to manage having a day out on s**t or average defenders like McKenzie or Mitch Brown
Completely beside the point, and wrong. We were a crap side in 2013, being a crap team the ball enters the defensive 50 more making it easier for opposition to score, common sense really, and just a way for you to ignore the point, majority of his goals kicked were against crappy teams.
He kicked 4 goals against the 13th placed team, amazing. I guess harry taylor is s**t because kennedy kicked 6 on him earlier this year, by your logic?
Hahahaha a quality key defender is a quality key defender regardless on how the midfield/forward line goes. You just keep ruining your own arguments
Well that is another issue, there are a number of problems with him and one of them is the club is to conservative with himSo any chance Reid is gonna be fit for a full season for a change next year, every year I add him in supercoach and every year gotta give him the heave ho
Definitely, but when the ball comes in the defensive 50 more often, the opposition has more chance to score goals, not to mention the fact that all players have bad games, and not like 4 goals against a s**t team is anything to brag about anyway? I like how you've turned this whole discussion from ben reid's ability as a forward, and the fact he's hardly played as one, and played twice against top 8 teams while doing so, into a way to talk down about west coast's defenders.
No I never said anything like that but seeings as they are about 10th on the ladder it would make him Lonergan and Rivers s**t from way of thinking.
I just want to see his talentyou definitely have a great talent there, was tossing up between Brown and Reid the first time I picked him, nobody likes to see injuries, so I wish Ben well, on the plus side you could have gotten Sam instead and had 3 goal kickers kicking 1 goal 6
