AFL Player #31: Zach Reid

[Lore]

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

 

[DERO]

Why? What’s wrong with 205cm
Sdk is 204..

Probably more down to injuries than his height I suspect.

 

[andleanback]

Probably more down to injuries than his height I suspect.

Being a defender is usually better for yeh body than being a forward or ruck

 

[DERO]

Being a defender is usually better for yeh body than being a forward or ruck

The slightly pessimistic view about his future might be more down to his previous injuries rather than his height/ position he plays etc. At least that is how I interpreted it anyway. FWIW I kind of agree but am ever hopeful.

 

[Vander18]

Why? What’s wrong with 205cm
Sdk is 204..

Just can’t see him moving well enough…could be wrong, hope I am.

I actually think ruck might be his best chance if he can ever add some size.

 

[Happyskeret]

Just can’t see him moving well enough…could be wrong, hope I am.

I actually think ruck might be his best chance if he can ever add some size.

I don’t think that will be their plan for him especially since they brought in Goldy and VV.

 

[Vander18]

I don’t think that will be their plan for him especially since they brought in Goldy and VV.

Neither do I.

 

[ant555]

I don’t think that will be their plan for him especially since they brought in Goldy and VV.

Neither do I.

Would not be totally ruling it out. They will give him a crack at defence but he may well end up as FP/second ruck. All our ruck stocks have various question marks on them .

 

[kleanr]

He's looking healthy at least. In that photo. From that angle. With that lighting. In the gws training kit.

pretty sure we got a huge end of year sale discount from The Orange Team

 

[Happyskeret]

Would not be totally ruling it out. They will give him a crack at defence but he may well end up as FP/second ruck. All our ruck stocks have various question marks on them .

At this point I just hope he has got his body right. I can see him doing some ruck duties but not as a full time ruck. They only way that will happen is if he fails as a back or a forward imo.

 

[ant555]

At this point I just hope he has got his body right. I can see him doing some ruck duties but not as a full time ruck. They only way that will happen is if he fails as a back or a forward imo.

Not that it is worth much but he did play one of his better under 18 games in the ruck .
Had 20 possessions and was good around the ground. Tap work was nothing more than average.
Do not think he will be a massive build but he will get to 100kg when he is 25/26 simply because of his height .

 

[Laverdeee]

lol he's played 8 games as Defender maybe give him another 8 before moving him to R/F

 

[andleanback]

I don’t think that will be their plan for him especially since they brought in Goldy and VV.

Goldy ain’t going to be on the list for long
Vv is a rookie

 

[dank420_]

Goldy ain’t going to be on the list for long
Vv is a rookie

Nick Bryan is....

 

[Lore]

It would take years for Reid to get ahead of Bryan as a ruck, probably Drapes retires before that becomes a thing.

He might be the anti-Daniher, defender who roams up the wings a bit.

 

[andleanback]

Nick Bryan is....

Bryan ain’t going to play as a majority forward though.

 

[Happyskeret]

Bryan ain’t going to play as a majority forward though.

So are you saying that Reid will be played as a majority forward?

 

[Happyskeret]

Regardless if VV is a rookie or that Goldy is near retirement I believe they have been brought into the club to ruck! That would put Reid 4th or 5th in the pecking order. Without knowing inside knowledge I just don’t believe it is in their thinking atm. If Reid makes it he is definitely going to ruck in certain situations I think that is a no brainer.

 

[yodellinhank]

lol he's played 8 games as Defender maybe give him another 8 before moving him to R/F

That could be years down the track

 

[Cup_o_Jobe]

Love the idea of just converting all of our ne'er-do-weller key backs into flankers. Maybe we trial a bit of Ange-ball. Have McKay and Baldwin stay back to zone defend and each of Reid, Cox, Ridley, McGrath and Redman roaming up and down the flanks and wing like a swarm of Andrew Embleys.

 

[BrunoV]

What to do with this guy? It’s hard to envisage him as 205cm key defender….

Forward? Ruck? He has shown glimpses of some poise and skill you don’t usually see in blokes this size….but how to best use it? I’m really not clear on the answer.

205cm Jake Lever is what we'd want to start with. Doesn't need to be able to defend or do anything physical to be that. Who knows where it goes from there.

He's not a ruck, no way, not with that build.

Forward adds a layer of physical stress he's not really suited to.

 

[Call Me Cake]

He will be a defender. A key position defender. And all of you will like it.

 

[Yoda_]

It would take years for Reid to get ahead of Bryan as a ruck, probably Drapes retires before that becomes a thing.

He might be the anti-Daniher, defender who roams up the wings a bit.

The Kepler Bradley reincarnation


Memory might be fading but didn’t Paddy Ryder exceptionally well at CHB early in his career?


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[Vander18]

205cm Jake Lever is what we'd want to start with. Doesn't need to be able to defend or do anything physical to be that. Who knows where it goes from there.

He's not a ruck, no way, not with that build.

Forward adds a layer of physical stress he's not really suited to.

I’ve always differed with you re Jake Lever. I rate him as a footballer. I just don’t know if Reid has the mobility to pull it off.

Think part of my pessimism comes from reflecting on the fact he’s now 205cm. Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m pretty sure we have never seen a key defender that size. McKay, SDK are close but they have far more classically athletic physiques and traits. I know he can play, I’ve seen glimpses……but that tall with a weird body shape….I can’t quite get past it at the moment.

A first time for everything, maybe he’s a freak….we’ll see.

 

[Happyskeret]

I’ve always differed with you re Jake Lever. I rate him as a footballer. I just don’t know if Reid has the mobility to pull it off.

Think part of my pessimism comes from reflecting on the fact he’s now 205cm. Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m pretty sure we have never seen a key defender that size. McKay, SDK are close but they have far more classically athletic physiques and traits. I know he can play, I’ve seen glimpses……but that tall with a weird body shape….I can’t quite get past it at the moment.

A first time for everything, maybe he’s a freak….we’ll see.

Darcy Moore is close to that height I think he is about 203 cm

 

[ant555]

Darcy Moore is close to that height I think he is about 203 cm

Moore is five times more athletic and quicker.
For me height is not an issue. It will be the lean frame and the lack of speed. He does not look like he will have a KP body for a while yet. If he can not play on the big slow blokes and lacks the speed off the mark to intercept then he is going to have an issue I think.