AFL Player #31: Zach Reid

[Lore]

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

 

[naraku]

Please. Tex hasn’t got a shred of the talent Zach possesses. The Key Position factor just adds to his value. I’d like to persist with both but if our hand is forced Tex goes well before Zach who gets at least 2 or 3 more to get himself right.

I didn't compare them talent wise, just how both seem to have wrecked bodies.

Tex , for mine, probably is our most talented small. I'm not sure if he makes it and if so that means a forward or back pocket.

But yes, I would be delisting Tex before Zach.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Reid is so far away from being delisted it’s not even funny. Scott clearly rates him. He’s just had some bad luck.

 

[Foxx]

15.2 beep test, wasn't it?

 

[Maxabillions]

Still TBC on the injury list. He’s clearly
been euthanised and they’re still working on the press release.

 

[faible]

200+cm KPD who moves really well, reads the play well, kicks well, and can even handle the ball at ground level well. Has no apparent attitude issues.

No chance he's let go just yet. We'd want to be really sure his body is cooked before we give up there. Plenty of KPD's take time, McGovern took 4 years on the Eagles list before even debuting.

 

[ant555]

200+cm KPD who moves really well, reads the play well, kicks well, and can even handle the ball at ground level well. Has no apparent attitude issues.

No chance he's let go just yet. We'd want to be really sure his body is cooked before we give up there. Plenty of KPD's take time, McGovern took 4 years on the Eagles list before even debuting.

Agree. Too early to cut him loose.

 

[bombreys]

200+cm KPD who moves really well, reads the play well, kicks well, and can even handle the ball at ground level well. Has no apparent attitude issues.

No chance he's let go just yet. We'd want to be really sure his body is cooked before we give up there. Plenty of KPD's take time, McGovern took 4 years on the Eagles list before even debuting.

Do we know his contract? If it ends this year, I hope they only give him one year. Between he, Baldwin, Weideman and Hayes, that’s four KPD’s that don’t play AFL clogging up the list.

 

[faible]

Do we know his contract? If it ends this year, I hope they only give him one year. Between he, Baldwin, Weideman and Hayes, that’s four KPD’s that don’t play AFL clogging up the list.

Contract Update: Zach Reid - AFLRATINGS

Zach Reid has signed a contract extension at Essendon.

aflratings.com.au

2025 says this

 

[bombreys]

Contract Update: Zach Reid - AFLRATINGS

Zach Reid has signed a contract extension at Essendon.

aflratings.com.au

2025 says this

Wow, 3 years - they obviously think a lot of him. As much as he needs game time, I hope they don’t try and rush him back for the end of the year. Just put him on ice, have him fit and fresh to start next pre-season

 

[Mercurial89]

Wow, 3 years - they obviously think a lot of him. As much as he needs game time, I hope they don’t try and rush him back for the end of the year. Just put him on ice, have him fit and fresh to start next pre-season

He tore his pec, in no world he plays this year.

 

[Runk]

Reid is so far away from being delisted it’s not even funny. Scott clearly rates him. He’s just had some bad luck.

There's 'some bad luck' and then there's 'Zac Reid clearly stole the Tiki from the Volcano/opened the tomb door/didn't put that fkng Chachapoyan Fertility Idol back on the altar' bad luck

 

[bombreys]

He tore his pec, in no world he plays this year.

He’d be due back last couple of rounds.

 

[Mercurial89]

He’d be due back last couple of rounds.

With a pec Injury that's being generous.

 

[Kong]

Wow, 3 years - they obviously think a lot of him. As much as he needs game time, I hope they don’t try and rush him back for the end of the year. Just put him on ice, have him fit and fresh to start next pre-season

Reckon you could find a post from last year almost verbatim.

 

[bombreys]

Reckon you could find a post from last year almost verbatim.

Probably from me too

 

[crackers65]

Wow, 3 years - they obviously think a lot of him. As much as he needs game time, I hope they don’t try and rush him back for the end of the year. Just put him on ice, have him fit and fresh to start next pre-season

AGAIN. Another year of hope. IF only. IF we can get him healthy. IF he has some luck.IF,IF,IF.

 

[Beerfish]

I'm not giving up yet. Next year is a big one though.

 

[fairbump_playon]

AGAIN. Another year of hope. IF only. IF we can get him healthy. IF he has some luck.IF,IF,IF.

Yeah but imagine if

 

[RaySamuel]

Has anyone laid eyes on this guy since the surgery? Was he back running and/or training by the end of the year? Ready for preseason day 1?

 

[TheBrightSide]

Has anyone laid eyes on this guy since the surgery? Was he back running and/or training by the end of the year? Ready for preseason day 1?

I’m not sure this guy even exists.
I’ve never seen him out on the field.

 

[ghostdog]

I'm not giving up yet. Next year is a big one though.

When he gets fit, every contest will be heart-in-mouth stuff because you get the feeling he could be one long term injury from the club calling time and moving on.

 

[ghostdog]

Has anyone laid eyes on this guy since the surgery? Was he back running and/or training by the end of the year? Ready for preseason day 1?

Does he still have a back?

 

[yodellinhank]

When he gets fit, every contest will be heart-in-mouth stuff because you get the feeling he could be one long term injury from the club calling time and moving on.

I don't think we'll have to worry about that.

 

[Call Me Cake]

I've been the biggest believer in him but we can all agree if he can't stay on the park for most of next year we move on and close the chapter.

 

[Rick Ross]

Pat Cummins is an example of what’s possible and why you persist with high end talent -

A series of stress fractures in his back resulted in a 1,946-day gap between his first Test and his second against India in Ranchi in 2017.

'The only thing holding me back was my body': Pat Cummins on his early injury-riddled career

Australian fast bowler Pat Cummins says he often looked at Test rivals like Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood and wished he could swap bodies with them during his lengthy early-career injury stints on the sidelines.

www.abc.net.au