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Training Nakia Cockatoo
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- Aug 18, 2018
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Hoping this is just being super conservativeSurely this puts a line through any prospect of playing senior football in 2019 - sign him on a 1-year deal, get him right fit day 1 of pre-season, and tackle 2020 head on
- Dec 11, 2009
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They've been super conservative with him for so damn long, and even after extended time he can't play out a half of footy??
He's done here for 2019 I reckon. Guy is made of delicate china.
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General soreness is a furphy IMO
It will be weather related, freezing cold and wet and sloopy.. Neither are any good for someone who has had a history of soft tissue injuries.
No point risking him in that shit tomorrow..
If anything this further strengthens my thinking he is a serious chance to be thrown in for finals
It will be weather related, freezing cold and wet and sloopy.. Neither are any good for someone who has had a history of soft tissue injuries.
No point risking him in that shit tomorrow..
If anything this further strengthens my thinking he is a serious chance to be thrown in for finals
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Agree on everything but the last bit
I doubt he would have the match fitness for the finals
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There's that perspective too..... an astute one actually.
More I think about it the more logical it seems.
Hope it's nearer the truth of the matter.
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They've put a lot into him behind the scenes, and quite frankly he'd be worth the punt, because some of the regular guys just aren't bringing it
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Sore or not it's still conservatism. I just don't think there's enough time left in the season to get him to match fitness. If they wanted him in they'd be rolling the dice I think
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I genuinely don't think any good can come from tomorrow, ones or twos.
Will be shit, cold, wet, scrappy and rubbish in both games
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Yep..... The injury report after each game will truly dictate the winner
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I have as much chance of selection for the finals as Cockatoo. Believing he will be fit for finals selection is fanciful.
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Would probably expect being pretty sore after the first game in over a year. But in only one half of footy? Going to take him a while to be back to normal. I wouldn’t bother risking him this year.
Go watch the goal where he did the hammy that started all his injury worries. Best goal kicked by a Geelong player since Ablett in the early nineties. It was his third for the day. He hasn’t played a full consecutive game since that day. All his other games have been first games returning from injury or games where he breaks down before half time. Even ablett snr was usually shit in his first game back from an extended injury.
He is in the top 2 football talents I’ve seen at the club in 30 years. He may even be the best. We will probably never find out.
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I don’t care when Cockatoo returns , as long as he does get to return and have a chance to show us all just what talent he has. I just wish the kid “good luck”.
At Brisbane.
Well that is a bad start to the day.
For a 3rd rounder
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When it comes to the Cats, I consider myself an eternal optimist. But turning this around to think it's evidence he's being primed for the finals is at a level even I can't attain.
Exactly. He won't have anything even close to the match fitness needed for finals.
To quote Jim Cornette, "he'd be sucking wind so hard the first three rows would pass out from oxygen deprivation".
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Too sloopy for a cocky.
Im liking it
That gruesome rain and snow!
Bring out the banjoes
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Yeah this! Today has soft tissue written all over it. Would be stupid to put him out there.
I wonder in the future, like motor racing has tyre warmers if players will get hammy and calf warmers that get removed at the start of the game.
If they weren't really serious about considering him for finals they would actually play him IMO.
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He showed enough last week in a half easily take Atkins spot. He just doesn’t have the conditioning. So they can build that by crushing him on the track for two weeks, VFL next week, Carlton the week after, rest during the pre-final bye, which will remove the traditional tiredness after the first game back.
Let’s not forgot the Hawks bringing Cyril back after a regular season out rehabbing his hamstrings.
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Yeah they can do that. Or just forget about him till next year.
Either way it's a good idea not playing him today.
- Sep 3, 2011
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I agree. Second to a premiership in 2019 is my want to see Nakia play long-term, great football for the Cats. And it’s a very close second.
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