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Cox recognising everyone wants the sporting goods endorsement contract, goes for the stretcher and moonboot endorsement contract.Signature moonboot time?
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Probably just hates playing football altogether.Sound's like he's trying to get out of another "heavy" pre-season!! Haha
Hasn't bulked up an ounce after missing most of last year! Obviously not a fan of the gym!!![]()
Stretchered off and then back training the next day? What a wussThere is a post on Blitz saying he's okay and training today. Not sure if it's true though.
Stretchered off and then back training the next day? What a wuss
He’s been watching too much of the World CupStretchered off and then back training the next day? What a wuss
Lock him in at CHF and keep him there. No need to do the Essendon thing and throw him around so he's never settled as a player and loses confidence. Needs his moxy back
But but but everyone wants their blicavs.
Guys a freak, doubtful anyone can replicate that
Blicavs also took a number of years to be able to do what he's doing now, and was ~ 22 when he debuted for Geelong.
Cox's athletic profile is very similar to Blicavs, so in another 5 years time maybe he will be that ultra-tall endurance beast utility player, for now though he needs to find a clear role and settle in, playing Wing as a new role for him, in a dysfunctional side is a hard task.
Blicavs at least came in to a very experienced and settled Geelong side.
The consideration no one has really made is that he doesn’t really end up a ‘tall’.
I actually thought they’d start him off a half back flank as a soft intro and just let him pick off high balls playing against smalls, and he still may end up there. He also may also end up a high motor lead up high forward similar to a Jamie Cripps type, but a 2 metre tall match up nightmare.
Wherever he goes he’ll either be taller or quicker than his opponent so it’s all about how that’s best utilised.
thats true, he might just be the utllity type who grew tall but dosent play tall - i mean English plays like the mid he used to be even though hes ruckman height now - and has become a weapon because of it
What? We drafted two tall kids who take longer to develop and both of whom have been injured. Perkins has shown plenty as well. Even players like JUH, Campbell, Thilthorpe, Henry and O'Driscoll have been good. Considering their lack of junior years, the 2020 draft is tracking fine.I cannot say I'm particularly high on Nik right now. I'm not sure what he is and I don't think the coaching staff knows that either. However, he is a big kid and they can take longer to develop.
But I also cannot get too frustrated by it because that draft class is probably the worst class in the AFL era and there is no clear 'miss' that we could have got instead of Cox. A shame that was the draft we had three top 10 picks in![]()