AFL Player #31: Zach Reid

[Lore]

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

 

[ghostdog]

Should come back through VFL. I would be quite unhappy if he walked straight back into seniors only to perform meekly because he's not confident in his body. He needs to come back ready to play with Edge (TM), lest we be weaker for it.

 

[dank420_]

Also fun fact,

Zach Reid total games played at 22 years and 14 days: 9

Ben Mckay total games played at 22 years and 5 months: 5

****ing Brad Scott

 

[Call Me Cake]

Pretty sure McKay was playing regularly at VFL level because Thompson and Tarrant were holding him out of the AFL side, not an injury related thing.

I never said it was an injury related thing. I was comparing their AFL games experience at similar ages.

You made it sound like he was filling people with confidence in the VFL. He didn't play every game in the VFL and in his 5th year (2020) he missed half of the season due to no VFL competition.

And, when McKay played in Round 23 of 2018 and the first 3 rounds of 2019, Thompson (retirement year) and Tarrant both featured with Ben in 3 of them. Simply did not keep his spot and didn't impress enough to earn it back.

His regular inability to impress in almost 5 years created a lot of doubts among supporters, to the point that they were literally saying it was too late/he was cooked. Here are some examples of North supporters doubting his ability to make it due to lack of AFL experience/not showing much outside of it;

after 5th game he played about 10 straight

Irrelevant to the point made and Reid still has 6 months on him (practically a season) and 9 months on him in terms of age.

 

[ghostdog]

You made it sound like he was killing it in the VFL.

That wasn't the impression I got at all. He/She made it sound like Thompson and Tarrant were killing it.

 

[Call Me Cake]

That wasn't the impression I got at all. He/She made it sound like Thompson and Tarrant were killing it.

Perhaps I worded it wrong, maybe not "killing it" but more-so, "showing enough to warrant confidence".

He had his chances in the AFL team, and did not keep it. Tarrant/Thompson played with McKay in 3 rounds between Round 23, 2018 and Rounds 1-3 in 2019. When in the VFL, he was not filling anyone with confidence.

Any player that is uninjured yet fails to play a 5th AFL game until his 5th year at a club would draw more worries than assurances.

This of course lead to North supporters suggesting he was done, which given the circumstances makes sense, but that doesn't always have to be case. Of course, it wasn't, and that was the general point.

 

[Rick Ross]

Coach said Zac’s playing VFL this week. Should do a 2-3 week block… surely?

Hoping Hayes gets a go for a few weeks (in place of Lav) in the mean time. Zac then needing to earn his spot back. Healthy competition.

Don’t for a second think coach will drop Lav from a winning team. Possibly his Q4 effort saves him.

 

[jannissary]

full training today

 

[Call Me Cake]

 

[fairbump_playon]

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WHAT A MONSTER!!!!

Please football gods. Give us a few peak years of Reid, Mackay, Ridley, Redman, Martin, McGrath.

 

[Pweter]

WHAT A MONSTER!!!!

Please football gods. Give us a few peak years of Reid, Mackay, Ridley, Redman, Martin, McGrath.

The monster with the matchstick legs

 

[faible]

The monster with the matchstick legs

When he was on-field he didn't look too skinny through the legs IMO

 

[fairbump_playon]

The monster with the matchstick legs

Maybe those super-sized BBQ matches.

 

[boncer34]

When he was on-field he didn't look too skinny through the legs IMO

Shit name. Change it back plz and tku.

 

[ant555]

I refuse to get sucked in again.

 

[srobbo]

Gumby #2. Zero faith in his body, just waiting for the news that he’s done it again.

 

[Maxabillions]

I for one welcome our good-as-new key back overlord

 

[brain taylor]

I refuse to get sucked in again.

i get a bit of a thrill every time he's back on the track and the "will he or won't he" if it all and the endless possibility but i suspect the afl's special wagering partners or whatever are getting to me

 

[Vindicater]

I refuse to get sucked in again.

 

[ant555]

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

Reports on his VFL game today?

 

[boncer34]

Reports on his VFL game today?

Went beast mode.

 

[brutus76]

25 touches - 16 kicks 9 handballs 10 marks

HE PLAYS SENIORS

 

[noobermensch]

Definite signs of rust for our boy Zach, but zero injuries is the big thing.

 

[jannissary]

Definite signs of rust for our boy Zach, but zero injuries is the big thing.

great video.

that ground though, picturesque

 

[noobermensch]

great video.

that ground though, picturesque

I used to work down there at the dock yards for BAE Systems. That ground might look great but the wind that whistles across it from the bay never stops. Williamstown have the biggest home ground advantage in footy, playing there is a completely different game.