It’s all about the wunderkind’s contract now. Better hope his manager isn’t Paul Connors. He was Judd’s manager. I believe his gf is from Melbourne, I think an AFLW player.
Looks like she plays for PA. The Eagles better try and get Yasmin Duursma West. Good luck.
[quote=“DD post=234955 userid=1749”]It’s all about the wunderkind’s contract now. Better hope his manager isn’t Paul Connors. He was Judd’s manager. I believe his gf is from Melbourne, I think an AFLW player.
Looks like she plays for PA. The Eagles better try and get Yasmin Duursma West. Good luck.
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Good to see you have some concern for the Eagles with their plans to extend his contract. Although about 80% of their eastern states players end up staying here for and beyond their careers. Let’s just hope he’s not part of the 20% hey???
For the record I hope he stays in WA. Would rather see him play for the Eagles than Geelong who he grew up barracking for.
[quote=“DD post=234955 userid=1749”]It’s all about the wunderkind’s contract now. Better hope his manager isn’t Paul Connors. He was Judd’s manager. I believe his gf is from Melbourne, I think an AFLW player.
Looks like she plays for PA. The Eagles better try and get Yasmin Duursma West. Good luck.
She plays for Carlton, traded from P.A
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I have to admit though, the press’s fixation with all things Harley has become a bit tiring. The Eagles do have a few other pretty good kids as well!!
Well this is just ridiculous and over the top. Grow up you West Australian newspaper kids.
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ok starting to get to a creepy kind of sick
Starting? The West think its actually funny and even commenting on facebook posts about Harley using their own profile.
Of course they get laced every time … i’m not sure what fkn idiot is signing off on this shit but its clearly a campaign to promote Harley every day and piss people off. It’s working.
[quote=“58shark post=234965 userid=844”]I have to admit though, the press’s fixation with all things Harley has become a bit tiring. The Eagles do have a few other pretty good kids as well!!
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Absolutely spot on. The Kid is super talented there is no doubt and if the Eagles can hang on to him, he will be a 10 year plus player for them and a potential Brownlow medallist.
However… he has played only 6 games for them and you can imagine that all the opposition coaches are now studying his style of play very closely and will be already devising strategies to try and reduce his impact on a game. The good thing is that he seems to revel in the physical stuff and he put Nat Fyfe on his backside on Saturday. I think it won’t be long before teams will start tagging him heavily and it will be interesting to see how he responds to this extra attention.
As for the West Australian FFS, no wonder the rest of the country laugh at us when they look at this crap, just embarrassing.
Spot on with all your comments mike. As for your last comment, I watch a fair few AFL footy shows on Kayo through the week and you’re dead right. They are taking the piss out of all of our 1 only state newspaper. They think we’re tools. The time for another big newspaper organisation is well and truly here - I avoid the west like the plague now.
This kid has had so much hype but after watching him tear a premiership midfield a new one, including a don’t argue to Oliver and Petracca in one play, I’m starting to think that he is just a phenomenal talent. He has single handedly revitalised a tired group of players and the team is becoming a lot harder to beat at home. His whole attitude of enjoying the game is so refreshing and has rubbed off on the older players like Darling and the talented newbies such as Ginbey. They will still have their ups and downs and they are nowhere near finals but there is a light at the end of the tunnel for them now. The great thing about Reid is that he seems to enjoy the physical stuff that the opposition throw at him.
I hope the Eagles can hang on to him because he is a crowd puller and even though I am not a West Coast fan I love watching him play
Great post Mike. It’ll be interesting to see what happens over the next couple of years. The eastern staters will throw everything at him. While he seems to love being here, grabs his jumper with joy when he kicks a goal and seems to be cherished by his team mates, going home may influence him. I see in one of the footy feeds that Simmo said that his recent trip home was because he wanted to see his family. That doesn’t bode well for the future.
It is rare that West Coast lose players back home as they look after them and if Reid needs to go home every 6 weeks and that is enough to keep him here they’ll do it. A few extra weeks off at years end etc.
If the rebuild happens sooner and he can smell a flag in 6-7 years he’ll also want to stay for that. History tells us that WCE are back up from the bottom and the door opens every 10 years or so and will be interesting if it repeats and he can see a flag which only add to the mix
I’d be very surprised if he’s still here in 3 years time and who could blame him. The thrill of moving back home and playing for a big Melbourne based club like Collingwood, Carlton or Essendon in front of family and friends and a packed MCG would be huge.
[quote=“BC post=235515 userid=892”]I’d be very surprised if he’s still here in 3 years time and who could blame him. The thrill of moving back home and playing for a big Melbourne based club like Collingwood, Carlton or Essendon in front of family and friends and a packed MCG would be huge.
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To me that would be a blight on the game if that happens BC and only further strengthen the argument that the AFL is merely an expanded VFL. Does that happen in the NBA and NFL? I doubt it.
Would an Australian soccer player say I want to go home and play in front of mummy and daddy in the A League and walk away from millions in the EPL? ?
Players return to their home states all the time DD. A classic was Nathan Buckley who did it and missed out on 3 flags at Brisbane but I bet if he had his time over again, he’d do exactly the same thing so I don’t see your point.
Beasley Hutton will correct me here but Buckley was originally a Top Ender who went down to Port Adelaide for juniors
[quote=“Southerner post=235529 userid=1210”]Beasley Hutton will correct me here but Buckley was originally a Top Ender who went down to Port Adelaide for juniors
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Yes Southy Buckley was originally from Darwin before heading to Port Adelaide in the SANFL and then on to the VFL.
I think he spent some small time in Canberra as a kid as well, have a recollection he played with James Hird there as a kid?
and I recall a lot of spew around him telling Brisbane he was going to Collingwood