Prediction Changes and Pre match discussion vs Hawthorn round 12

[the harry]

 

[FKASC]

What’s Reid’s tackling pressure like? Hopefully he is keen to play that role and not expecting to have 5-6 shots on goal like in the Beags

 

[Scruffy9985]

Not sure if this belong here, but here goes. The Eagles have released a video of Nic Reid getting the news he's playing his first game for the club, everyone around him starts clapping, cheering and a few back slaps. Liam Ryan is in the background and gives him nothing for a while not even a smile then a very token clap at the end. Liam I know has had some very recent tragedies, so I'm thinking his mental stat might be off. Should he be playing or am I just reading way to much into the video?

 

[Goldfish]

...The embers of desire had again been fanned within the man they call 'Dos'...

I wonder where the nickname came from? My mind went straight to the beer...

Might be his playing style, ie. Bulldozer? So could be pronounced Doze not Dos

 

[KO_KO]

I initially thought Ryan would be out, he looks sore. Plus the sitting down for the team song seems like he’s out?

 

[Wild Kelly]

What’s Reid’s tackling pressure like? Hopefully he is keen to play that role and not expecting to have 5-6 shots on goal like in the Beags

NRL, RA, soccer and basketball background.

 

[Wild Kelly]

I initially thought Ryan would be out, he looks sore. Plus the sitting down for the team song seems like he’s out?

He was just taking a chair.

 

[THE A5]

NRL, RA, soccer and basketball background.

I didn't realise he played in the National Rugby league.

 

[boondy]

I initially thought Ryan would be out, he looks sore. Plus the sitting down for the team song seems like he’s out?

He went to 2 funerals , still grieving .

 

[Wild Kelly]

I didn't realise he played in the National Rugby league.

Yep... done it all Vishy

 

[Altum Volantes]

Not sure if this belong here, but here goes. The Eagles have released a video of Nic Reid getting the news he's playing his first game for the club, everyone around him starts clapping, cheering and a few back slaps. Liam Ryan is in the background and gives him nothing for a while not even a smile then a very token clap at the end. Liam I know has had some very recent tragedies, so I'm thinking his mental stat might be off. Should he be playing or am I just reading way to much into the video?

Did you see how Hamish Brayshaw was looking at Andrew Gaff?

Was totally a ‘you killed my brother and I’m never going to play a senior game’ vibe...

Either that we are both jumping at shadows.

 

[hudson2006]

A good write up by Stocksy.

Nic Reid’s journey to the AFL has been the antithesis of the smooth ride from the TAC Cup or WAFL colts to elite football.

No luxury vehicle or sealed highway on his path to the top.

He started on that manicured route, missed a couple of turns, found himself in a beat-up four wheel drive in the middle of nowhere but has eventually made it to the desired destination.


He could have been excused for being disillusioned by those frustrating, unplanned detours. Abandoning his AFL dream was more logical than clinging to thinning hope.

Especially when it drifted from arms-length as a member of WA under-age squads to a barely visible image far on the dusty horizon of the gravel tracks he was navigating in early adulthood.

But on Sunday, when he fulfils his long-held AFL ambition, making his debut for the West Coast Eagles against Hawthorn, it will all seem worthwhile. The brown pebbles pounding the undercarriage on his drive to the top had kept him alert, rather than drifting completely off target.

And he will become a unique and compelling football story when, at age 24, he steps out as the 252nd player to represent the West Coast Eagles in its 34-year history.

Reid has always had talent, but he never quite fitted the neat template that the AFL industry expects of its aspiring youngsters. He wasn’t besotted with the game, had a couple of cracks with WAFL club Claremont, but in his late teens he wasn’t quite ready for that structured and routine way of life.

He preferred to play with his mates at amateur club North Beach.

He liked the freedom of just playing footy. The game came naturally to him and he mirrored it in the way he played. Instinctively.

It is possible for me to offer some insights into this young man because I was coaching the colts at North Beach when he opted out of the Claremont program. I wouldn’t say I, or Dave Barwick, with whom I shared the role, coached him as much as plonked him in the centre and asked the umpires to start the game.

He dominated, often kicked three or four goals out of the middle, and we just enjoyed the spectacle. We weren’t the only ones. A-Grade players would come to the ground early to watch him play.

That was 2012 and Reid was clearly a class above all others at that level. The senior coach at North Beach, Bill Duckworth recognised it too, and Reid’s stint in the colts was short-lived.

Duckworth, a two-time Essendon premiership player and 1984 Norm Smith medallist, injected him into the seniors and played a nurturing role with the talented youngster.

A year later, another AFL premiership star, David Hynes, a significant part of the 1994 West Coast Eagles premiership team, assumed the senior position at North Beach and he continued to mould an evolving young man who was among the most talented, if not the most talented, players in the competition.

In 2018, with former Subiaco utility player Shane Paap at the helm, Reid underlined his talent by kicking 48 goals in an injury-affected season. He was runner-up to Joel Ashman in the WA Amateur Football League A-Grade competition and was also runner-up in the North Beach award (tied with Dan Leishman) to Sam Lamont.

Reid had become a local football hero. Kids were going to Charles Riley Reserve to watch him play, wearing his No.19 on their backs. Among that throng of youngsters was Callum Jamieson, another product of the North Beach Junior Football Club, who is now on the Eagles list.

It was post that 2018 season that Reid found himself back on the path to elite football.

The West Coast Eagles had been granted a licence to play in the WAFL, allowing all of its players not selected in the AFL team to play together in the second tier competition. The alignment with East Perth had disintegrated and the Eagles wanted to go alone.

They were granted a licence and joined the competition, albeit handcuffed by severe recruiting restrictions.

It meant they needed to get creative with the list structure for their WAFL Eagles and all of Reid, Lamont and Ashman were so-called “top-up” players. Pigeon-holing them in that manner hardly did them justice, but it gave all of them an opportunity to play at the next level.

The embers of desire had again been fanned within the man they call 'Dos'. Hope that had been almost extinguished rose again. Reid probably didn’t know how much he wanted it until he began mixing with AFL talent, recognising he was not entirely out of place.

For Reid, it was a platform to show a captive audience what he could do. He impressed General Manager - Football Craig Vozzo, Eagles coach Adam Simpson and other coaching staff who were dedicated to the WAFL team.

After a 2019 campaign when he demonstrated a capacity to influence WAFL games, the Eagles were given permission for him to train over the summer. Although his appearances on the track were limited because of shoulder surgery, he put everything on the line, even taking a year’s leave of absence from teaching to give it all of his attention.

Where he was not ready for the structured life a WAFL player – let alone AFL football – in his late teens, the more mature version of Nic Reid craved it in his early 20s.

He is yet another example of a young man who would never have received this opportunity with a compressed senior list. Now he is ready to capitalise on his footy lifeline and take another quantum leap forward on his football – and life - experiences.

This has to be his magnum opus, the Stocksiest article that ever was.

 

[DanWCE]

This has to be his magnum opus, the Stocksiest article that ever was.

Are you putting him under notice?!

 

[bUCKET__]

Ah crap, I just realised that we won't get the full team announcement til the day before the game again. Thought that was done with this round.

 

[Avalor]

Not sure if this belong here, but here goes. The Eagles have released a video of Nic Reid getting the news he's playing his first game for the club, everyone around him starts clapping, cheering and a few back slaps. Liam Ryan is in the background and gives him nothing for a while not even a smile then a very token clap at the end. Liam I know has had some very recent tragedies, so I'm thinking his mental stat might be off. Should he be playing or am I just reading way to much into the video?

Yah, both Ryan and Jetta didn't look happy with Reid's debut. Very sour faces on the pair of them. Reading between the lines from people on here, they have a bit going on in their lives atm.

 

[CoastersFlag No.5]

Not sure if this belong here, but here goes. The Eagles have released a video of Nic Reid getting the news he's playing his first game for the club, everyone around him starts clapping, cheering and a few back slaps. Liam Ryan is in the background and gives him nothing for a while not even a smile then a very token clap at the end. Liam I know has had some very recent tragedies, so I'm thinking his mental stat might be off. Should he be playing or am I just reading way to much into the video?

Link?

 

[Chris_6678]

Where’s the video?

 

[Farang83150]

Not sure if this belong here, but here goes. The Eagles have released a video of Nic Reid getting the news he's playing his first game for the club, everyone around him starts clapping, cheering and a few back slaps. Liam Ryan is in the background and gives him nothing for a while not even a smile then a very token clap at the end. Liam I know has had some very recent tragedies, so I'm thinking his mental stat might be off. Should he be playing or am I just reading way to much into the video?

Liam doesn't do much celebrating, watch him after wins when they're mucking around before and after the song, generally stays back and doesn't seem to show much emotion.

 

[CoastersFlag No.5]

Link?

Found it. Couple of worried boys in the back.

 

[CoastersFlag No.5]

Where’s the video?

 

[THE A5]

Found it. Couple of worried boys in the back.
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Cameron cracks a smile but some daggers from Ryan.

 

[THE A5]

if looks could kill

 

[Mulldogg]

if looks could kill
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Just watched the video. Wow, what’s all that about? Bit of disharmony amongst the squad? Or as some others have said is that reading too much into it?

Doesn’t look good on first viewing.

 

[Ishmael_]

Stocksy's writing is a classic case of 'dad enrolling in a creative writing course over summer and no-one having the heart to tell him he can't write'.

I'm starting to find it kind of endearing.

 

[boondy]

Cameron cracks a smile but some daggers from Ryan.

Jetta isnt getting a game , thats gotta hurt not just Jetta but Liam obviously is close to Jetta . They did still clap . Gaff missing the Granny , hard to be happy for others for example . At least they arent fake . Some people cant hide their emotions , dont read into it too deep