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Player Watch #30: Reece Conca

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Grimes is AA quality now that he's had a good run with injuries. Conca could be a near-AA quality inside mid for the next few years in the best team in the league, and respected by all in a perennial top 2 team.

Surely that's worth a pay cut to him?
 
Hundred_Thousand_Tigers said:
Grimes is AA quality now that he's had a good run with injuries. Conca could be a near-AA quality inside mid for the next few years in the best team in the league, and respected by all in a perennial top 2 team.

Surely that's worth a pay cut to him?
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He's a serious injury away from retirement. If he gets offered more security then we are prepared to offer you couldnt blame him.
 

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tropicaltiger said:
Once the eagles finish their finals campaign, they will be coming hard for Conca too.
Our 18 - 26 ranked guys will be in demand, the ones not signed up will be offered the red carpet treatment by rival Clubs.
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Miles Lloyd Conca all stayed to taste the esprit de corps Balmey and Cotch created. They did not want to leave for moolah or a guranteed spot in the 16-25bubble spot of mere-mortal teams.
 
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Hundred_Thousand_Tigers said:
Grimes is AA quality now
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now?

I know that was rhetoric ^

but for mine, Grimes is as good as Rance. He can handle Cyril Rioli or Buddy Franklin. No other defender has such flexibility. He is a defender, but so much more than a defender. He is DylanGrimes vigneron extraordinaire
 
David_Full said:
If Conca goes, he is not a massive loss he is a decent defensive midfielder he reminds me bit like Devon Smith but no where near as good.
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the ballast lifts the players. The scaffolding that is the team-playing harmony lifts merely average players to top 100 AFL players. I think this harmony is no more than a fluke. It depended on Griffiths removal, and Lids leaving. And at his best, Lids was top30 AFL. So how can you remove a piece who is ranked so high as an individual, yet improve?

the team alchemy is accident. WHAT is not accident, is the coaches and back-office staff (see Balmey and Benny) ability to maintain the momentum. Beveridge struck out when I was sucked into thinking he was a genius. No, but if there is any club genius, it is the team back office marrying all to this accident and carrying the momentum through.

Before you stand up and claim credit for the club and say it was coaching genius and the players. The counter-factual is Footscray, there are 18 individual clubs, and if Ablett was committed to GC, they would have been in finals multiple years versus a basket case. The counter-factual, one team in the 18 needs to win, but multiple teams are legitimate threats, and deserve flags, but only one finds the right form at the right time, and has luck not having injuries that would derail a finals campaign.

Conca and Bellis wont be a major loss if they go to St Kilda or Perth. The team can cover. In fact, too much depth can be a hindrance as well as a benefit.
 
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blackcat said:
the ballast lifts the players. The scaffolding that is the team-playing harmony lifts merely average players to top 100 AFL players. I think this harmony is no more than a fluke. It depended on Griffiths removal, and Lids leaving. And at his best, Lids was top30 AFL. So how can you remove a piece who is ranked so high as an individual, yet improve?

the team alchemy is accident. WHAT is not accident, is the coaches and back-office staff (see Balmey and Benny) ability to maintain the momentum. Beveridge struck out when I was sucked into thinking he was a genius. No, but if there is any club genius, it is the team back office marrying all to this accident and carrying the momentum through.

Before you stand up and claim credit for the club and say it was coaching genius and the players. The counter-factual is Footscray, there are 18 individual clubs, and if Ablett was committed to GC, they would have been in finals multiple years versus a basket case. The counter-factual, one team in the 18 needs to win, but multiple teams are legitimate threats, and deserve flags, but only one finds the right form at the right time, and has luck not having injuries that would derail a finals campaign.

Conca and Bellis wont be a major loss if they go to St Kilda or Perth. The team can cover. In fact, too much depth can be a hindrance as well as a benefit.
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Absolutely brilliant.
 
So Conca is leaving.

You have to love putting so much time and effort into an injury prone player then when they finally get on the park they decide to leave.

Disappointed that he isn't repaying the faith we put in him, but I've never really seen him as best 22 anyway.
 
_Cayz_ said:
So Conca is leaving.

You have to love putting so much time and effort into an injury prone player then when they finally get on the park they decide to leave.

Disappointed that he isn't repaying the faith we put in him, but I've never really seen him as best 22 anyway.
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How is he leaving, have I missed something or are winding us up. He may well leave if he is dropped this or next week, but until then no way is he leaving. (Did I just fall into the trap.)
 
Grrr said:
How is he leaving, have I missed something or are winding us up. He may well leave if he is dropped this or next week, but until then no way is he leaving. (Did I just fall into the trap.)
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He wants to go back home according to the rumour mill.
 

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