AFL Player 31: Zach Reid

[Lore]

 

[Bombers36]

I am starting to think its unlikely he will make it - he simply cant get on the park....
Just 8 games since the 2020 draft is not a good return for a top 20 draft pick. If you look back at that 2020 draft Reid has played the least amount of games of the top 20 draftees..
Our own Perkins (52 games) and Cox (27 games) have proven much more durable...then there's players like Holmes, Bowey, Gulden & McCreery who were taken much lower in the draft than Reid and have played far more games and had a much bigger impact at AFL level. I'm not saying the Reid pick is a bust - yet - but its certainly heading that way if he cant get his body right and get on the field consistently soon...
We really need to start thinkning about another key defender option and may have to trade for one soon...

 

[Lore]

Not sure about leg press, but I'm fairly sure you arch your back a little for a proper bench press. Lift comes through your chest, shoulders and arms. Not a lot of lower back there at all.

It’s the word “proper” that stands out to me

 

[DERO]

You'd be pretty unlucky to hurt your back doing a bench press. Much more likely to hurt your shoulders.

 

[jannissary]

i think baldwin needs more game time, he's looked good this year when he's played, and i think he'd slot in fine (if there's an injury) which we've already seen so far this year. hopefully this hamstring discomfort isn't serious and he can get some more game time.

 

[windyhill]

S.Gumbleton.

 

[naraku]

You seriously couldn't make this up.

 

[Mikevk123]

Dud

 

[The Airing of Grievances]

So situation still hasn’t really changed. Lots of jumping at shadows at this point. They are understandably cautious.

You’d have to make it very clear that this is for his own good because he won’t like itbut I’d almost shut him down for the whole year and just work on his body. Lots of core, bit of pilates.

Any gains he gets out of playing this year will probably get cancelled out by the fact that he’ll be 10 kilos heavier in 18 months and a radically different athlete.

I think that would be the sensible strategy. There's next to no chance he can contribute anything meaningful to the team's performance in 2023, and the likelihood of him gaining some development in the 3 or 4 games he might(at best) play is surely outweighed by the risks of yet further long term hamstring problems if he persists .

 

[faible]

I think that would be the sensible strategy. There's next to no chance he can contribute anything meaningful to the team's performance in 2023, and the likelihood of him gaining some development in the 3 or 4 games he might(at best) play is surely outweighed by the risks of yet further long term hamstring problems if he persists .

Just give him a 12 week block of Nordics then preseason IMO.

 

[andleanback]

Zach Reid still a tbc in the injury report. Doesn’t bode well

 

[Hamez]

Surgery on his hamstring and probably won’t play again this season.

 

[DapperDon]

Going in for hamstring surgery.

Did we have to wait for the current injury to heal before surgery or did we wait a month just because?

 

[Dudoro]

There it is knew something was coming with no details for a while. Anyone who says no to Ben McKay

32

Ben Mckay

Age

27

Ht

202cm

Wt

104kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

7.5

2star

K

3.7

1star

HB

3.8

3star

M

2.7

3star

T

1.7

4star

MG

77.2

1star

D

7.5

2star

K

4.5

2star

HB

3.0

2star

M

2.5

3star

T

1.5

2star

MG

88.5

2star

D

7.0

2star

K

3.4

2star

HB

3.6

3star

M

2.4

3star

T

2.0

4star

MG

67.8

1star

is kidding themselves

 

[andleanback]

Yep as soon as I saw the tbc knew some bad news was on its way. The positive is we’ve had positive results with langers and caldwell off hammy surgery.

 

[BomberTime]

Learn from the past.

This guy won’t make it, too fragile.

Trade him for whatever we can get and cut losses.

 

[andleanback]

Learn from the past.

This guy won’t make it, too fragile.

Trade him for whatever we can get and cut losses.

No point of trading right now. Literally nothing to be gained

 

[Dudoro]

Yep as soon as I saw the tbc knew some bad news was on its way. The positive is we’ve had positive results with langers and caldwell off hammy surgery.

Correct but they aren’t 6 foot 8

 

[andleanback]

Going in for hamstring surgery.

Did we have to wait for the current injury to heal before surgery or did we wait a month just because?

He reinjured it

 

[andleanback]

Correct but they aren’t 6 foot 8

It’s still the same rehab process and caldwell had a worse hamstring injury history

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

 

[TheGrizz]

There it is knew something was coming with no details for a while. Anyone who says no to Ben McKay is kidding themselves

Yup, cause a guy who has played 63 games in 7 years due to injury and form is the picture of reliability, obviously.

 

[faible]

Yup, cause a guy who has played 63 games in 7 years due to injury and form is the picture of reliability, obviously.

It’s dudoro though, like the off brand d grade imitation version of Dodoro.

 

[ant555]

No point of trading right now. Literally nothing to be gained

True. Right now they just have to work at getting him back for next year and see where it goes. I have some reservations but there is not point cutting our losses now. We need a forward maybe we send him to the other end to try his luck as I do not see him as the answer to our full back problem.

 

[andleanback]

True. Right now they just have to work at getting him back for next year and see where it goes. I have some reservations but there is not point cutting our losses now. We need a forward maybe we send him to the other end to try his luck as I do not see him as the answer to our full back problem.

He’s under contract for 2 more years. So let’s just get his body right for starters. Hopefully he can get through 2024 preseason/ season without any issues. Maybe an extended lay off will give him so more time for his body to settle down.

 

[Zach Package]

This whole ‘let’s take a long term, considered approach to player rehab’ thing has done wonders for a lot of other players on our list.

He’ll come back bigger and better.