Cameron or Cox?

shawthing · Joined: 04 Jul 2019 Location: Victoria Park

None of them.

What'sinaname · Joined: 29 May 2010 Location: Living rent free

woodys_world69 · Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Location: Brisbane

Whos the forwards coach? why do none of them bar checkers know how to use bodywork before the ball arrives?

Cox is a lamp post.

SteveH67 · Joined: 18 Jul 2004 Location: Canberra, Australia

If Cameron was going to be any good, the Swans would have kept him.

He wasnt getting a game in a team thats in a rebuild.

Magpietothemax · magpietothemax Joined: 28 Apr 2013

Geek · geek Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Location: Jacana

I say keep them both. It will be just like the Cloke/Dawes glory days of 2010/11. One can't mark and the other can't kick.

Mihocek is probably an upgrade on Leroy too, though nowhere near as brutal a presence.

Ah the good old days when our players had attitude. Even if it was mouthy cocksure stuff from the likes of Daisy Thomas. They were up for the fight. You want that to win flags. We now have Adams, Maynard and who? If Greenwood makes it back it will be on one leg. Grundy promised a lot on the attitude front at first but seems to have softened a fair bit. Then there's um... there's ahhhh.....

Geek · geek Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Location: Jacana

Pies2016 · Joined: 12 Sep 2014

With Reid, Miochek and possibly Ruscoe all out this week, we’re going to find out a bit about Cox.
If he’s not picked ( and that’s unlikely ) then he’s finished.
If he’s picked, then he gets a chance to show how much he wants it ( half as much as Miochek would be a good start )
Then we can all sit back and off a one game shoot out sampler against the other, we can then all post our justifications as to why either Cameron or Cox were better than the other.

I don’t particularly rate either of them but I do know it’s a lot easier to pass judgement on a 60 odd game tall than it is a 10 game tall.

RudeBoy · Joined: 28 Nov 2005

I concur with P2016.

Ronnie McKeowns boots · Ronnie Mckeowns boots Joined: 27 Jul 2020

So....is bringing Jessie White back an option? Is the mid-season draft still in place, and if so, how many dim sims has ole Jessie been chomping since last we met?

I think the idea has merit...

Lazza · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

How about Jason Wild? Wonder what he is up to these days? Maybe grown taller? If so let’s get him playing in the ruck🤪 We couldn’t do much worse🤓

Lazza · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Ronnie McKeowns boots · Ronnie Mckeowns boots Joined: 27 Jul 2020

Pies2016 · Joined: 12 Sep 2014

F W I W, I just checked the Darcy Cameron trade.
We gave them pick 56 and received pick 62 back. In other words, we moved back six spaces in the fourth round of the national draft.

That’s usually about right for a back up ruckman who knows he mightn’t get a game the entire time he spends at his second club. I’m guessing his arrival was also designed to give Cox something to think about.
My point is, heaping any amount of expectation on Cameron is close to unreasonable.
He originally came to the club as a much needed insurance policy if Grundy went down. I would be very surprised if the club ever thought they picked up a plug and play K P F for the next five years.

If Cox was playing even half decent football, we wouldn’t even be having this thread.
Unfortunately, the real issue is that Cox isn’t even playing half decent footy.

Lazza · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Never have I been more certain that Cox is done at Collingwood. He is a one trick pony who has been too easily worked under the ball at most marking contests so that he is off balance. He has been good taking marks when leading and is a generally a straight kick. I think we can get a replacement who can do this at least equal to him or better. Mason needs a change in environment and Collingwood need to move on with a different plan of attack, one that is far less predictable. This will be a win-win situation for both parties.