sr36
TheBrownDog
It's what every team does. If there's a leading option, hit it, if not bomb it to the big man in the hot spot.
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Player Watch Mason Cox
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Just standing there killing space is what forces people into a bail out kick
If Liam McMahon and Will Kelly haven’t gone past him in 5 years time the future is bleak
sr36
TheBrownDog
Even if they go past him, he still will be a really valuable 2nd ruck, who presents a danger up forward - you're not going to see the end of the big fellar for a fair while - unless his body fails him.
Will be lucky to be on a list post 2022
sr36
TheBrownDog
Nah. He's AFL standard. You're going to be complaining about him for a few years to come. He'd be the first ruck at a few teams, second ruck at a heap of teams - not sure if he'd be the main kpf at any other club.
When we put him on the market last year he got zero interest from anywhere
sr36
TheBrownDog
He's on a stupid contract apparently.
Nobody wanted him as he is no good
Mate explain why 17 other clubs didn’t want him when we tried to trade himDid Mason fu** your mum or something?
sr36
TheBrownDog
Contract. How many wanted Treloar and Stepho?
Same reason 16 other clubs didnt want to put in decent plays for Trelaor Phillips or Stephenson either, and the clubs that did put in bids got bargains. Collingwood did all this at the last minute and from a position of great weakness at the negotiating table.
Cox had 1 year to run it’s not like he had been locked in on big money for a long term deal. No other club saw any value in him at all
You can’t compare him to Treloar. Ads was locked into a 5 year deal with him that put people off. Cox had one year to go obviously he is on overs but if any club could see upside into the future they would have at least shown some interest
They were all cleared off the books for salary cap reasons and we were ripped off on all counts because of that. Cox would have been lightly and briefly shopped around to see if there was genuine interest where we wouldnt get ripped off... ie a club willing to take on his full salary. (We would have also needed to get some cap relief so we could buy a player to replace him to due to the lack of kpps on the list, Given we didnt have cap to keep the players we already had, that wasnt going to be likely either.)
That doesnt mean he isnt tradeable in normal circumstances or that clubs wouldnt have an interest if given some time to contemplate taking him on and making room for him on the list. Nothing about that Collingwood offseason was "normal".
sr36
TheBrownDog
Time will tell, but I'm pretty confident that he'll be playing AFL for a few years to come.
jmac70
On the porch
Is the Fibonacci sequence proof of the existence of God?
What when he decided to retire?
When he wasn't offered a contract on the terms he wished for and then offered to play for either of the WA clubs.....and when they declined then he retired.
He only gets a game here due to poor list management. What club would even consider him? The fact he is on such a big contract is criminal
Twist it how ever you want. He retired as he didn’t want to play under Bucks
He averages a goal or more a game, he's a fabulous second ruckman and if CFC had a proper FF then Coxy would play as a forward pocket and relief ruckman which he is superb at. Its not HIS fault we haven't had a FF since Cloke.
He mightn't have enjoyed the culture of the club? He has intimated this of late....
And no other side offered a reigning All Australian player a chance to keep on playing.
Twisting?? I don't think so.
sr36
TheBrownDog
1. In a game where we hit up a heap of leads - you're claiming Mason clogged the space.
2. When he's "just standing there", he's 60 metres away from the kicker - with a couple of players staying back in the area becasue they have to body him. The leading lanes aren't 60 metres from the ball. Him leading into the space like you seem to want, would be what would kill the leading lanes for JDG and Elliott and stop us from having a long option if noone finds space on the lead.
