No but picking him alongside him is still a possibility. I wont write Reid off and he is not writing himself either. Ben Reid has the perfect attitude for a Collingwood player.
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No but picking him alongside him is still a possibility. I wont write Reid off and he is not writing himself either. Ben Reid has the perfect attitude for a Collingwood player.
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Cox/Reid will only occur if Grundy is out.
Or Mihocek. Or Hoskin-Elliott.
I dont like Reids chances but I do like his attitude.
No doubting his attitude.
But his ground work isn’t a patch on Mihocek or WHE.
Either is Cox’s. But he attracts defenders like bees to a honey pot.
Which opens up more opportunities.
Personally I think sending Reid forward has done his career no good at all. If he was playing as a defender these past few years he'd probably still be getting a game and we wouldnt have needed to recruit Roughead.
Absolutely. That said, hes been mostly fit in 2018 and 2019.
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I think he's a shell of his former self. He was never bulky but he had an elastic strength that made him effective as a defender. To my admittedly inexpert eye thats gone, he barely competes physically and takes his marks and wins contests with his excellent hands and footy brain. He's still a very good kick too.
I'm not saying he squibs it, i mean exactly the opposite. I think his long term injuries mean he literally can't smash into packs anymore, and just by being out their he's taking punishment his body can't deal with. If he could compete body on body he'd be our best defender by a street. Now he's just a worrying medium forward who doesn't crash packs.
People consistently bringing up Reids move forward as if it was a mistake... like he is some godsend FB that would have solved all our KP problems.
Do you not remember his last few outings at CHB? He was poor. Our defence as a unit was borderline Dysfunctional also. Now i am not putting that dysfunctional all on Reid... but he was a key component of a barely competent defensive unit. The fact our defence had been rock solid without him surely counts against him in coaches eyes.
My last memories of Reid at CHB are one of a player whose body looked shot, he was a step behind his opponent consistently... he always went to ground in crucial contests. He Had lost his Intercept prowess, and his left footed 50m laser beams across the ground were non-existent.
He was completely done as a defender. Completely done. It was so frustrating watching him in his last time spent down there. There is not a chance on earth Reid would perform better then Roughead is now.
Do you not remember his last few outings at CHB? He was poor. Our defence as a unit was borderline Dysfunctional also. Now i am not putting that dysfunctional all on Reid... but he was a key component of a barely competent defensive unit. The fact our defence had been rock solid without him surely counts against him in coaches eyes.
My last memories of Reid at CHB are one of a player whose body looked shot, he was a step behind his opponent consistently... he always went to ground in crucial contests. He Had lost his Intercept prowess, and his left footed 50m laser beams across the ground were non-existent.
He was completely done as a defender. Completely done. It was so frustrating watching him in his last time spent down there. There is not a chance on earth Reid would perform better then Roughead is now.
Oh so it's nothing to do with the injuries then
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Fit for selection or not, I don't think Reidy's been physically capable of playing a defensive role to the level Roughy has this year.
At his peak, he was undoubtedly a better defender than a forward, with his leap, lovely field kicking and reading of the play. He was brilliant. But his body just doesn't quite let him play the way he used to.
That's the reason he never gets a game in the backline over Roughead in 2019.
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Just watched the last quarter again. Cox was definitely limping at the end. Good thing we have the week off, hopefully he'll be right for the Bulldogs.
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Started slowly, but worked into the game nicely.
Will need a few weeks, no doubt.
Will need a few weeks, no doubt.
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Can't believe the club doesn't have a chiropodist on the books, damaged big toe aside, his feet are a disgrace.
Forgotten how to mark it?
To be fair to him, the rest of the squad has forgotten how to tackle, mark, handball and execute kick-to-kick, so he’s kinda just doing what everybody else is doing.
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Really struggling atm, needs to get back some confidence cause he is so important to our forward structure
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Yeah, but if Reid is fit, he probably would.
Delivery didn’t help but gee he dropped some he should have held
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His problem is that he is weak.
One of our blokes needs to slap him hard before the game and I mean slap him.
One of our blokes needs to slap him hard before the game and I mean slap him.
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You’re implying he was a great mark to begin with. Has always been iffy from day 1. Runs under the ball and gets out positioned most times. When he doesn’t he drops sodas and the opposition sweeps up.
Only plays good against Richmond and no one else.
The last 2 weeks he just seems to be getting in the way. Quite a few times around goal he got in the way of smalls and his just to slow when you need to twist and turn in congestion.
Also Sidebottom trying to handball over the top to a runner only for Cox to reach up and cut it off.
Not sure it's all his fault as there does seem to be a lack of talk amongst the players most the time.
Also Sidebottom trying to handball over the top to a runner only for Cox to reach up and cut it off.
Not sure it's all his fault as there does seem to be a lack of talk amongst the players most the time.
