AFL Player #13: Nik Cox 🦄 - Re-signs to 2026 - 24/7

[Beerfish]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2024
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 6, Rick Ross

 

[Goat Hird]

Unicorn lol far from it, could make it as a forward but so soft and just crap all around.

 

[The Prosecutor]

I don't see him ever putting it together.

I'd be trying to get value from him on the trade table. Maybe target trying to snare a first rounder from a team that may fancy the prospect of developing him as a KPD like the Bulldogs. Something like Cox and our second/third for their first.

 

[Snake Charmer]

Happy to die on this hill… he’s no good

 

[cobra land]

Even Melbourne's Langdon who is the biggest downhill skier in the league was baiting him on his softness.

He drops his head and his body language is putrid !

Lastly you are a right footer, so stop showboating & use it on set shots because when you miss you open yourself up to this type of criticism.

 

[Megabattimus]

I'd play Roberts ahead of him tbh.

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[Blind Turn]

I don't see him ever putting it together.

I'd be trying to get value from him on the trade table. Maybe target trying to snare a first rounder from a team that may fancy the prospect of developing him as a KPD like the Bulldogs. Something like Cox and our second/third for their first.

Swans would like their chances of turning him into something.

 

[Jobe Watson]

Bit of a nothing player, isn't he.

 

[yodellinhank]

Swans would like their chances of turning him into something.

What would he be best turned into, do you reckon?

 

[Blind Turn]

Bit of a nothing player, isn't he.

Last week I was thinking how good it was to see him growing confidently into a wing role with he and Jones being a genuine point of difference in our team make-up. He has a shocker in the wet and now he’s a ‘nothing player’. I really hope he proves naysayers like yourself wrong by being a premiership player.

 

[Blind Turn]

What would he be best turned into, do you reckon?

A unicorn.

 

[The Prosecutor]

What would he be best turned into, do you reckon?

The fact that after four years in the system there's still no good answer to this question is the problem.

 

[dank420_]

Baby giraffe

 

[Snake Charmer]

I don't see him ever putting it together.

I'd be trying to get value from him on the trade table. Maybe target trying to snare a first rounder from a team that may fancy the prospect of developing him as a KPD like the Bulldogs. Something like Cox and our second/third for their first.

Very wishful thinking.

 

[Schnitzengruben]

Not a wet weather player unfortunately.

 

[yodellinhank]

Not a wet weather player unfortunately.

Maybe they're trying to turn him into one?

 

[naraku]

Package him up with some other players/picks for Harley.

 

[The Prosecutor]

Very wishful thinking.

Possibly, but its the type of deal it would take for us to break from the conservative nature of this league and move a player like Cox on.

Reality is he probably lays 170-odd largely mediocre games where he never really becomes much more than the player he was in year one.

 

[yodellinhank]

Package him up with some other players/picks for Harley.

Package, you say?

 

[Jobe Watson]

Last week I was thinking how good it was to see him growing confidently into a wing role with he and Jones being a genuine point of difference in our team make-up. He has a shocker in the wet and now he’s a ‘nothing player’. I really hope he proves naysayers like yourself wrong by being a premiership player.

What exactly is he good at?

He's tall, but doesn't use it. He's not quick. He's not strong. He's not skilful. He doesn't win ground level ball. He's possibly the worst handballer I've ever seen.

Without significant improvement in multiple areas, I don't see how he's a long-term AFL player.

 

[The Prosecutor]

What exactly is he good at?

He's tall, but doesn't use it. He's not quick. He's not strong. He's not skilful. He doesn't win ground level ball. He's possibly the worst handballer I've ever seen.

Without significant improvement in multiple areas, I don't see how he's a long-term AFL player.

Exactly. Seeing how Jones has naturally adopted the other wing these last three weeks has really highlighted how forced everything about Cox seems.

 

[Jobe Watson]

Don't get me wrong, I want him to become a good player... mostly because the idea that we wasted 3 top 10 picks in a single draft is almost too sickening to even think about. But I just don't see it.

We've played him in literally every area of the ground at this point and he hasn't impressed in any position.

 

[DERO]

There is a touch of the Kepler Bradley’s about him.

 

[mmmifff]

What exactly is he good at?

He's tall, but doesn't use it. He's not quick. He's not strong. He's not skilful. He doesn't win ground level ball. He's possibly the worst handballer I've ever seen.

Without significant improvement in multiple areas, I don't see how he's a long-term AFL player.

Totally agree. Just what does he deliver or do? He’s had years to get faster, get bigger, prove something special - but it is zero every week. Plus he has the Heppell illness of doing 13m kicks sideways to stationary targets and thinking the job is done.

 

[mmmifff]

Apparently lankos has agreed to an extension

 

[gillon]

He’s played 40 games and I think maybe twice I’ve come away thinking ‘Cox was pretty good’. Every other game he’s been either unnoticeable or a liability.