#13 Nik Cox - thru 2026 (Part 1)

barnz · May 30, 2021, 6:30am

ahh you too enjoy the odd perkocet?

ScottishBomber · May 30, 2021, 6:32am

Reckon Perkins could come home like a train

aboods · May 30, 2021, 6:38am

You think he’ll start slowing down a fair way from the end?

Heppelltitis · May 30, 2021, 7:14am

Blummers32:

Heppelltitis:

Blummers32:

I like this guy.
And he can be such a big weapon.

In three years time, we’re either going to want more possessions or value the ones he gets.

This guy needs to be assessed like Michael Long. Never really became a high volume player but everything he did was quality.

Nah mate. Currently, he needs to be assessed like any first year player. To which he rates very very well.

But going forwards, he absolutely will be a high volume player. Any player on the wing with his aerobic capacity should be. Give him a couple of years and he will be racking them up as per Gaff/Whitfield and the like.

See, that’s the problem though.
Gaff and Whitfield have been high volume possession players even through their junior football career and that has continued in AFL.

Cox hasn’t shown the ability to reach those levels of volume on a consistent basis.

If we’re expecting him to be Gaff or Whitfield like, then we’ll be disappointed when he doesn’t make it.
I think he’ll be more in the Brad Hill mould but more damaging.

Yeh, nah.

Gaff and Whitfield played there throughout juniors.
Cox is relatively new to the role.
Give him a couple of years, he will rack them up. Nothing surer.

Fairybread · May 30, 2021, 7:58am

Maybe the player and his family.

Clone_Hirdy · May 30, 2021, 8:26am

If he doesn’t get nominated, he can always trade his premiership medal for a rising star medal.

HirdMentality · May 30, 2021, 9:05am

Cox is a true 1st year player;

Jackson and Green are both in their second year as are Cody Weightman, Georgiades, and Warner. Jordon, Kossie and Scholl are in their 3rd years.

Gulden and Campbell are the only 2 players actually from the 2020 draft to be nominated for the RS

Rhino-D · May 30, 2021, 11:43am

none of it matters if Cox turns out to be the best of the lot.

which he probably will.

Laverde2Langford · May 30, 2021, 12:47pm

Perkins will be the best IMO

Wanderlust · May 30, 2021, 1:27pm

Or…Reid will be!

Wanderlust · May 30, 2021, 1:27pm

Clip for anyone that wants to see it. Interesting to see Barrett and Brownless supporting Lloyds opinion too.

Laverde2Langford · May 30, 2021, 1:30pm

I reckon he was 3rd best out of our 3 this week…

Jones or Perkins surely this week…

Wanderlust · May 30, 2021, 1:35pm

Hate to say it, but going by previous weeks, I think Jones (Port) may get it.

astro_bomber · May 30, 2021, 2:31pm

Just checked his rising star odds. It’s at $6.50. Glad I jumped on board at the start of the season like many on here with at 10 times those odds.

Magic_Touch · May 30, 2021, 2:35pm

Got him at $81 when he took that screamer in the intra club and kicked a goal.

reincarnated · May 30, 2021, 2:37pm

Cox only had a 9 possession game. Highly unlikely to get it. Also, he plays on the wing so it will be seen as a bad game to nominate him.

Perkins plays in the forward half, his 16 possession game can be considered good. Would have been good if he kicked that goal (which slammed into the post).

bomberboy05 · May 30, 2021, 9:51pm

Yeah Lloydy talked up cox and said he should get the nom this week but eagles game was probably his most quiet game of the year.

Archie was easily better than him this week.

I wouldn’t be surprised if an Essendon official got in Lloyd’s ear given we’ve been snubbed all year and always get snubbed for all aus coz of the lack of Essendon people in the AFL Media

bomberboy05 · May 30, 2021, 9:52pm

It’s just rubbish how he didn’t get a nom against Sydney, saints or north.

All the selectors look at is disposal count, not their effect on games.

andrewb · May 30, 2021, 10:50pm

Wing is the hardest position in modern footy, play him across half back and he’d be averaging 20 touches. You get games like Saturday when the ball is on the other side of the ground all night and you’re just running. Unfortunately ‘times you prevented the opposition getting into the corridor’ doesn’t show up on the stat sheet

Scorch · May 30, 2021, 11:15pm

I don’t think he’s used often enough as an outlet. Often seen torching his man on the spread and ignored. Stuff individual awards though. He doesn’t need additional expectations that these types of awards create.