AFL Player #13: Nik Cox 🦄 - Skipper called him 'the Unicorn' in an interview (confirmed!)

[Beerfish]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2024
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 6, Rick Ross

 

[Lore]

Cox absent from the 2k time trial due to foot soreness under the first toe, scan showed inflammation of the sesamoid bones. Put on a bit of weight over the off-season, so they're off-loading him and he'll be back running this week. Being cautious. He's done a full off-season program just getting back into the boots and into a bit of footy has caused it to flare up.

Performance update | Pre-season

Head of high performance Sean Murphy provides a performance update now that the full Bombers squad is in for pre-season.

www.essendonfc.com.au

 

[owen87]

Cox absent from the 2k time trial due to foot soreness under the first toe, scan showed inflammation of the sesamoid bones. Put on a bit of weight over the off-season, so they're off-loading him and he'll be back running this week. Being cautious. He's done a full off-season program just getting back into the boots and into a bit of footy has caused it to flare up.

Performance update | Pre-season

Head of high performance Sean Murphy provides a performance update now that the full Bombers squad is in for pre-season.

www.essendonfc.com.au

I thought unicorns had hooves?

 

[Lore]

I thought unicorns had hooves?

Do hooves not have sesamoid bones?

 

[owen87]

Do hooves not have sesamoid bones?

Oddly enough google tells me they actually do

 

[Beerfish]

Cox absent from the 2k time trial due to foot soreness under the first toe, scan showed inflammation of the sesamoid bones. Put on a bit of weight over the off-season, so they're off-loading him and he'll be back running this week. Being cautious. He's done a full off-season program just getting back into the boots and into a bit of footy has caused it to flare up.

Performance update | Pre-season

Head of high performance Sean Murphy provides a performance update now that the full Bombers squad is in for pre-season.

www.essendonfc.com.au

 

[Keystone agony]

Id be happy to not see him till the new year

A natural aerboic athlete and a strong training block post new year will be fine for him heading into the season

 

[TheUnicorn]

Get well soon my sweet prince.

 

[Vindicater]

Going to be good seeing him and Jones destroy backlines over the next 10 years

 

[fishardansin]

Not really given I quoted a comment about new age computer modelling.

Computer modelling has its place. When you're talking about a controllable amount of variables and a system that does not know it is being studied. Climate modelling is good, economic modelling is not good because the system you're modelling knows that it is being studied and changes its behaviour based upon the modelling you're doing.

 

[ant555]

Not really a discussion for here but in the end modelling is always limited to the data available or used. Even climate modelling is based on data collected mostly in the last 100 to 150 years and the planet has been around for 1000's of years.

 

[owen87]

planet has been around for 1000's of years.

Only according to the bible…

A few billion according to science

 

[Lore]

Only according to the bible…

A few billion according to science

And the more reliable data is from ice cores with layers of atmospheric bubbles that go back hundreds of thousands of years lol. Definitely a story for another thread though.

With the amount of time we spend trying not to talk about mathematical modelling on here it might well be time for its own thread in the hangar.

 

[owen87]

And the more reliable data is from ice cores with layers of atmospheric bubbles that go back hundreds of thousands of years lol. Definitely a story for another thread though.

With the amount of time we spend trying not to talk about mathematical modelling on here it might well be time for its own thread in the hangar.

It’s only fun to talk about when it’s in threads it’s not supposed to be in though. You know how it works.

 

[ant555]

Only according to the bible…

A few billion according to science

There are 1000's in billions . I could not tell you what is in the bible. Is there a picture of Nick Cox , greatest AFL player of all time ?

 

[owen87]

Is there a picture of Nick Cox , greatest AFL player of all time ?

No, they simply refer to him by his other name; Jesus.

 

[Godzke]

EFC Media Team: Have you spent any time researching your social media profile?
Nik Cox: Yeah ... they're talking about f*cking climate change. How in the actual f*ck does that relate to me?
EFC: Really? show me ... ugh ... yeah avoid Big Footy

 

[fishardansin]

No, they simply refer to him by his other name; Jesus.

First he's a unicorn, now he's Jesus. Can we please give him a label that relates to something that actually existed?

 

[Maxabillions]

First he's a unicorn, now he's Jesus. Can we please give him a label that relates to something that actually existed?

Tom Brady?
Muhammad Ali?
Kelly Slater?
James Hird?

Take your pick

 

[eth-dog]

First he's a unicorn, now he's Jesus. Can we please give him a label that relates to something that actually existed?

Yeah, like Nessy

 

[owen87]

First he's a unicorn, now he's Jesus. Can we please give him a label that relates to something that actually existed?

Yeah, like Nessy

I can get on board with Nessy.

 

[eth-dog]

I can get on board with Nessy.

This is why you're my favourite.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

96-97kgs now. Still skinny as. 13kgs in one season is massive. He's going to be huge.

 

[ant555]

96-97kgs now. Still skinny as. 13kgs in one season is massive. He's going to be huge.

Hope he does not end up huge. His mobility is one of his best weapons. Certainly very rare for a player to gain 13kg in a season.

 

[Mercurial89]

Hope he does not end up huge. His mobility is one of his best weapons. Certainly very rare for a player to gain 13kg in a season.

It's rare because that increase at their age in one go often leads to issues with the large amount of running they do.
He would want to be very careful with his workloads.

 

[ghostdog]

It's rare because that increase at their age in one go often leads to issues with the large amount of running they do.
He would want to be very careful with his workloads.

Caveat: I know nothing about this kind of thing.

He said he has put on the weight without really trying, so I'm wondering how much of this would simply have been natural growth. If the running has always been there, and the weight gain has been natural, wouldn't the conditioning be somehow naturally proportionate to that?