That’s an interesting take. I’d argue it’s the opposite of an “instinctive” position in the modern game, with players having very strict expectations within the game plan, and not being allowed to play on instinct. The key is understanding and implementing the positional requirements for the game plan, and understanding how those change pending the different grounds and opponents. It is being able to understand what the coach is trying to achieve from your position, and doing what is required to achieve that. That is far more “intellectual” than “instinctive” in my opinion.
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He’s shown he’s pretty athletic to be fair, he can be a nightmare match up in a few positions.
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It was a joke about Biclavs
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Ah gotcha.
I did, did you? He played it ok for a kid starting off but there’s a hell of a long way to go
And he had some courageous moments sure, but to be brutally honest they outweighed by short changing moments too.
He’s a kid so hardly a knock, but I still don’t think he looked like a natural wingman at all. Which to be fair is pretty rare in itself as there aren’t that many gun natural wingmen
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people see his first year and just automatically assume everytime he rolls onto his left he will lace out a pass dean rioli style, or the sydney goal in rd 3 was it streaming through the midfield.
he had a good first year, relative to the circumstance, which was a team that had 0 expectation on them, they were told to go out and have fun and just be happy after an exodus of players.
he like a few got to just run around with freedom from expectation and pressure to produce good consistent football.
he was averaging 13-18 possies.
the point some of us made even then is, yes good for a first year, if that’s what he’s producing in 3-4 not so.
the problem he will face as a wingman is, be default he will be used as a marking option instead of a brad hill/issac smith type role.
if they can find a way to get him to produce all 3, great, but as others have also agreed with you, he is now down the pecking order due to injuries yes, but now he actually has to go out and prove that the potential and hype from yr 1 can be turned into a consistent offering by him at a higher consistency basis, and he may well have to do that fighting in the vfl to prove himself now.
it’s not un doable by the kid by any stretch, but some people act like he should just be a walk up start to the seniors day 1 of him being ready. they might be in for a rude awakening when he may well spend most if not all of this year in the vfl.
My view is we pushed the kid into a workload that his body wasn’t ready for. That wiped out the back end of year 1, all of year 2 and the first half of year 3. He played a few games in that time, but he was under duress.
Get his body right. Get him playing consistently without pain. Then we’ll see what he can do. Fully fit he might develop into a great wing / floating defender. Or something else. But injured he’s nothing.
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I’m sure he’s still a nice person.
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Nah. Injured football players don’t have personalities. They’re inanimate objects purely there for our internet debating enjoyment.
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They’re meat
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Well, obviously that is your opinion.
Personally, I’m not sure how you came up with it. He obviously needs to put on size and improve his endurance. But his movement into defence and drifting forward, and positioning on the wing was very very good, IMO. In a really tough position, I thought he showed tremendous signs.
I can’t really remember him shirking anything in year 1 either.
And of course, there is a long way to go and even without injuries no guarantees. That is par for the course for a young player, especially a tall one.
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Cox is fast over-taking Reid as the new Gumbleton.
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Concerning how much footy he has missed bacisly hasn’t played in almost 2 years
Another masterstroke piece of drafting by Dodo bird
Has a few more years to reach that level.
I have Cox a close second behind Jones as disappointing players. But I’m actually looking forward to getting him back fit and ready.
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Comes in and is awesome. Gets injured and disappears for 2 years, and yet it’s Dodoro’s fault.
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That’s what happen when you draft sticks they get injured easily was Cox even rated top 10
Cox was drafted with pick 8, so yeah he was rated a top 10 choice.
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what he rated top 10 by draft experts tho where did Cal have Cox in his phantom draft
We were hoping both would be guns by now, but the stereotype that talls take time is a stereotype for a reason.
Cox is just 21, Jones is just 22. Hopefully when they’re 24 they’re amongst the best in the league. Compare to Harry McKay at the same age. Tales need patience
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