AFL Player #31: Zach Reid

[Lore]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2025
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 5, Happyskeret

 

[citizen-erased]

It will depend on what roles they want them to play. Looking at Cox last week I doubt he is going to be a lot bigger. He looks the same as last year. Thankfully he is mobile and has reasonable skills on btoh sides so he can play intercept flank or half forward.
May be an issue for Reid as he does not have the same speed and engine as Cox and is suited to play KP.
I would not say Daniher or Hipwood are huge. Tim English is another who has been a bit on the skinny side before building up a little the last 2 seasons. Stanley at Geelong is not a big unit for a player his size. I do agree though being skinny with narrow shoulders and not a lot of leg definition is an issue.

You've mentioned in the past (i think) he could play fwd

If cox and hayes come on as fb/chb options (or cox as 3rd and zerk back there), what sort of craft has he got? Assume the kicking and marking is decent.

 

[ant555]

You've mentioned in the past (i think) he could play fwd

If cox and hayes come on as fb/chb options (or cox as 3rd and zerk back there), what sort of craft has he got? Assume the kicking and marking is decent.

He played some forward at under 18. He leads and marks the ball and is mobile. At 200cm that is what he needs. The rest is simply fine tune.

 

[Call Me Cake]

So what's going on with this guy. Is he gonna train and push for a spot or what?

 

[Lore]

5-7 weeks away, and it's a back injury (not a foot or an ankle), according to the injury update graphic.

 

[eth-dog]

Reid was always back IIRC

 

[Lore]

Reid was always back IIRC

Yep. Unless you read The Age, then it's a foot or an ankle or a back depending on what they feel like writing in their articles.

 

[Lore]

I think this is the first time we've had an actual return timeframe for him as well

 

[eth-dog]

I think this is the first time we've had an actual return timeframe for him as well

Nah we had it last week too

 

[yodellinhank]

Reid's back how exciting. Oh, his back. How disappointing.

 

[Kong]

Reid's back how exciting. Oh, his back. How disappointing.

Can’t you reid?

 

[Call Me Cake]

I prefer 5-6

 

[Lore]

 

[Call Me Cake]

Sub.

 

[Lore]

 

[ant555]

He did look to be moving pretty well on Sunday.

 

[ghostdog]

I want to believe this video, but I also want to believe the moon landing video and the bigfoot video. Until BrunoV can confirm this video's authenticity, I'm calling bull****.

 

[FlyingV]

Of our last 5 top ten draft picks 4 have been recently/or are currently injured. Cox, Hobbs, Reid and Tsatas.
Pretty disappointing.

 

[fairbump_playon]

Of our last 5 top ten draft picks 4 have been recently/or are currently injured. Cox, Hobbs, Reid and Tsatas.
Pretty disappointing.

Hobbs wasn't a top ten draft pick

 

[BrunoV]

I want to believe this video, but I also want to believe the moon landing video and the bigfoot video. Until BrunoV can confirm this video's authenticity, I'm calling bull****.

Sorry, ghostdog, but that is clearly a crisis actor.

The real Zach Reid has been abducted by Mossad.

 

[FlyingV]

Hobbs wasn't a top ten draft pick

First round then

 

[ghostdog]

Hobbs wasn't a top ten draft pick

So what you're saying is, if Dodoro projected him as a top ten pick that doesn't make it so?
That's outrageous.

 

[Lore]

This looks like rehab group running laps together, so guessing he's on a modified program.

Interesting that the other clip above has him doing some sort of match sim, which you'd assume is contact training.

If he's in contact training then the injured area is probably stable, otherwise they wouldn't risk the match sim. But doing extra running says he's probably doing strength and conditioning work to build up loads before he's going to be fit enough to actually play at any level.

And it's running over ground, not in the alter-G. So that's a good sign too.


I wish we had a proper injury update instead of having to guess based on training watcher clips on twitter...

 

[fairbump_playon]

So what you're saying is, if Dodoro projected him as a top ten pick that doesn't make it so?
That's outrageous.

Jordan Houlahan, top ten pick

 

[Nicholas61]

Of our last 5 top ten draft picks 4 have been recently/or are currently injured. Cox, Hobbs, Reid and Tsatas.
Pretty disappointing.

Another piece of the puzzle why we have been languishing. Even going back a bit most of our best/top pick forward talents have struggled to get on the park for prolonged periods or had injuries that robbed them of their potential - Gumby, Joe, Orazio, Davey, Jetta.

 

[FlyingV]

Jordan Houlahan, top ten pick

Surely he didn’t say Jordan Houlahan was rated top ten by us ffs