Training Nakia Cockatoo

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Partridge said:
Pretty sure stats are reality. I haven't seen Parsons do it true, but I haven't seen Cockatoo do it outside of one pre-season game either.



'x' is appropriate to Cockatoo exactly like high school algebra: unknown and as yet completely unproven.
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Stats tell a story. Like all stories, reality is in the mind of the beholder.....

Agreed on x....


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Nickoo said:
Maybe bad omen as that corresponding game, what two years ago.


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Or something coming full circle
 
Nickoo said:
V.true, except against Crows PF ‘17. He was lost.


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On the whole... he has shown something when he plays ... I think the last game he played I thought he he comes ..3 goals and looking ready to go bang... and yep he went bang..

He would be getting close to 80 games by now if he could have stayed fit..
 
BIGANT said:
They should never have played Cocky that game, other then the early goal he put through he certainly did get lost.

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Not nearly as lost as Menz.

I think it was Cameron who really carved us up that night and is he the same bloke playing for Bris now? If so well that sends shivers.


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TheWoodenSlug said:
Yeah, it's got that feel about it. I'm equal parts excited and worried.
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I'm excited... If he has gotten through a stack of training and a few weeks of games then it's kick shit or bust time.
If he gets hurt again then life goes on, sometimes it just isn't meant to be
 
From another article:

Geelong livewire Nakia Cockatoo could have as many as another four games in the VFL to get his body right before auditioning for a September call-up...

...The talented forward has been earmarked to play his first full game in Round 20 against Williamstown on August 18...

...Cockatoo could spend the next month in the state league before putting his hand up for a call-up for Geelong’s first AFL final.

“He’s done a hell of a lot of work on his body and training to feel comfortable today and he got through it,” Geelong VFL coach Shane O’Bree said

“At half-time, the relief on his face to get through was priceless. Sometimes you take that for granted when you don’t know exactly what they’ve been through.

“He was pretty emotional just being able to get through half a game, which has been a while for him.”

O’Bree said Cockatoo could be considered for an AFL finals call-up.

“We’d love to get him in the AFL team but we’ve been wanting to get him in the AFL team for five years,” he said.

“He’s still a project player for us, and his body is the No.1 priority and getting him through games of football as much as possible. If we have that luxury in the back end of the year, we’ll worry about that when it happens.”
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So maybe unlikely against Carlton especially as it means he becomes difficult for him in terms of eligibility for VFL finals & it may be more beneficial for him to play VFL through to their first week of finals compared with a forced week off over the bye week.

VFL finals eligibility:

(b) A Player who has played in an AFL Home and Away Match after 1 July in the relevant season will be ineligible to play in VFL Senior Grade Finals Series Matches unless that Player has played in a combined total of at least six (6) VFL Senior Grade Home and Away Matches in the same season.

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(g) Despite any other provision in Rule 20, in circumstances where:

(i) an AFL Club is participating in the AFL Finals Series, but is not playing on the weekend of the AFL bye weekend after the final round of the AFL home and away season; and

(ii) the AFL Club’s VFL team is playing on that weekend,

any AFL listed player who did not play in the AFL Club’s AFL team in the final round of the AFL home and away season will be eligible to play in the Club’s VFL team in the AFL bye round after the final round of the AFL home and away season.

To ensure he's eligibility for VFL finals (especially week 1 of them), I wouldn't play him against Carlton

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I'll preface my comments here by saying I like Nakia (and appreciate his talent).

However, the idea that a player who's averaged around 10 disposals, 3 tackles, and less than 1 goal per match over his extremely stunted career is going to be an enormous point of difference in a red hot AFL finals series is highly fanciful in my mind. And all this after the best part of two full years out of the game as well.

He might come into the senior team in time for finals. He might even be a superior option to others we have available to fill the last spots in the 22. But I don't see him being a huge factor at all in whether we flourish or fail in the AFL finals this season.

If he did become a crucial cog in September success for the senior side this year, it would be just about the most staggering reversal of both fitness and form lines by any player over the history of the AFL/VFL.
 
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