AFL Player #31: Zach Reid

[Lore]

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

 

[Kong]

I hate to be a downer but I reckon this is a massive, massive concern. Like concerned about his ability to build a career.

 

[crackers65]

He needs to come back through the two’s and earn senior games. Up until he got injured he was very ordinary. That sort of performance was not worthy of a senior
player.

 

[Nicholas61]

Wonder if going to "Healing Hans" would be an option and appropriate for what he has. I trust Scott with this stuff to search far and wide for the best course of action.

 

[dank420_]

He must play senior matches, it's too late to keep him in the 2's.

Plus he looks comfortable at the level now. No reason to play him in the 2s unless it's for fitness.

 

[eighties_bomber]

Gumbleton was more resilient than this bloke. Put him up for trade while he still might be worth something

 

[Beerfish]

Gumbleton was more resilient than this bloke. Put him up for trade while he still might be worth something

Have you ever posted anything positive about anything?

 

[citizen-erased]

I'm not buying into the doom and gloom. I feel like it's a good sign that it's a minor strain and not a tear/that bad. And the club did the right thing in taking him off and going the conservative approach.

He must play senior matches, it's too late to keep him in the 2's. He needs experience. With that, will come some setbacks. But the key is, like Scott mentioned, is to build a resistence to it over time. That resistence slowly builds as the significance of the injuries decrease. This is the most minor it's been since he's come to the club and that's a positive sign.

yep
kid has little to no real match conditioning. let him build it this year. if he misses through awareness, soreness, rest, etc. this isn't necessarily a bad thing.

 

[citizen-erased]

Have you ever posted anything positive about anything?

maybe the 80s?

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

He needs to come back through the two’s and earn senior games. Up until he got injured he was very ordinary. That sort of performance was not worthy of a senior
player.

 

[dank420_]

maybe the 80s?

Bigfooty was way better back then

 

[andleanback]

He needs to come back through the two’s and earn senior games. Up until he got injured he was very ordinary. That sort of performance was not worthy of a senior
player.

Nah he comes straight back in. Was really good in both preseason games

 

[naraku]

Fork in him?

 

[yodellinhank]

Fork in him?

Yep. He's forked.

 

[ant555]

In b4 somebody is glad they're taking a conservative approach

Well they could have left him on and let him pop the tendon off the bone .

 

[ant555]

Have you ever posted anything positive about anything?

That was a nice pump up for Gumby . I doubt anyone has posted that he was more resilient than anyone

 

[Mercurial89]

Just keep playing him once he's recovered.
Either it continues to go and we can officially rule him out and either trade him or delist him.
Or it comes good and he's serviceable.

We have 20 odd weeks to find out of he can do it.

 

[BomberFan355]

Fork in him?

Wouldn’t that have shown up on the MRI?

 

[carnthedons]

Wouldn’t that have shown up on the MRI?

Metal not recommended in MRI, read a story about a buttplug once

 

[Squeaky]

maybe the 80s?

He posted it via carrier pigeon!

 

[Foxx]

I’ve definitely suffered and still do from sciatica it’s like the depression form of hamstring and back awareness . No one sees it but it is there restricting you without abandon. It’s an unseen ailment.

Same here. It's cryptonite is core exercises bud.

 

[Foxx]

Some bodies are just not up to it. And his isn’t up to it.

Look forward to another 4-5 years on the list though…1 of which he’ll play 14-17 games and we all think he’s finally turned a corner…

I think the best we can hope for is a Cyril Rioli type outcome. He had dodgy hammies. But forged a good amount of games around the continual tears.

 

[Donakebab]

We went the long term approach with Caldwell and sent him away for surgery on his bung hamstring, that seems to have done the trick.

 

[Petrify]

4-6 weeks.

Injury news: Parish a test, scans confirm timelines for Reid, Guelfi

The latest injury update ahead of round two.

www.essendonfc.com.au

We went the long term approach with Caldwell and sent him away for surgery on his bung hamstring, that seems to have done the trick.

Reid already had surgery on his hamstring

 

[andleanback]

4-6 weeks a decent whack for a such a minor incident.

 

[Donakebab]

4-6 weeks.

Injury news: Parish a test, scans confirm timelines for Reid, Guelfi

The latest injury update ahead of round two.

www.essendonfc.com.au

Reid already had surgery on his hamstring

I clearly didn't keep track of anything last year.