'He is special': The panel lauds Harley Reid's unbelievable impact on West Coast - Sunday Footy Show

The Sunday Footy Show reacts to West Coast's shock win over Fremantle, before Elliot Yeo joins the panel!
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[@JordanCantelo]

Yeo in the wilderness??? The bloke’s been injured and hasn't played....Big pre season, fit and hungry to be the player he was before his OP injury. Absolute star!!

[@girlsblouse7866]

''Transformed Elliot Yeo''. What a stupid, ill informed comment. You're an idiot, Barrett. And you're a spineless traitor Judd. Not a Captains ars*hole. Took the glory, then bolted.

[@Simmo_AU]

These guys haven't got a clue about anything that happens outside Vic

[@theDISENCHANTED]

Yep, you're hearing pure arrogance. Can't even be complimentary when forced into pointing out WCE's improvement.

[@richhobo8364]

It didn’t start at the Sydney game. It started round 1 against port. He WANTS to be here. Let’s give some respect to the team. Yes Harley is amazing! But the game style and the spirit from the team is amazing. Kane thank you for once saying something nice about us.

[@drdc22]

Cornes is trying so hard to force a narrative of dropped standards costing the eagles two years of misery. The injury list they had was catastrophic for two years - much of it was random things and impact injuries. Now he is trying to make it seem like Harley has saved the club and Simmo. Harley is undoubtedly the best young player in the league, and possibly aince Judd, but what we are seeing is a healthy list learning to play together again. The most important players for the eagles so far this year have been Yeo, Kelly, McGovern and Waterman - three of which have hardly played in recent years.

[@Simmo_AU]

Eloquently put and 100% correct. These people are pretty ignorant when it comes to anything outside Vic

[@thomasdoyle6812]

Eagles lost a game last year 205-34; that's unprofessional no question.

[@drdc22]

@@thomasdoyle6812 that's a wafl squad, low on confidence, against a premiership contender at their home ground. No doubt they also had a bad day, but if a bad day is unprofessional then all teams are guilty of it

[@Documentts]

Acting like wce haven’t already been thrashed this year. They are still likely to finish bottom 4

[@chinathesideyoudontsee8157]

@@Documentts All young teams are going to fluctuate, the challenge now is to try to lower that and be more consistent. A bottom 1-4 finish will just add to our list to add the depth we need for the next rise 😀 What all these people are missing is it is the new Fitness and development team that has helped turn things around not just Harly Reid !

[@ralphgomeze8873]

Did these so called experts still think West Coast should have split the pick and not take Harley Reid. I wouldn’t trade him for 3 first round picks. He is a SuperStar !!!

[@TommyRooshooter]

HOW MANY GAMES IT TOOK STARS TO KICK THREE GOALS AND WIN SEVEN CLEARANCES 6: Harley Reid (WCE) 30: Chris Judd (WCE) 49: Lachie Neale (Frem) 58: Dustin Martin (Rich) 69: Josh Kennedy (Syd) 72: Patrick Cripps (Carl) 82: Patrick Dangerfield (Adel) 95: Dane Swan (Coll) 99: Nat Fyfe (Frem) 100: Luke Hodge (Haw) 107: Scott Pendlebury (Coll) 109: Clayton Oliver (Melb) 111: Marcus Bontempelli (WB) 118: Jobe Watson (Ess) 118: Christian Petracca (Melb) 130: Gary Ablett jnr (Geel) 183: Joel Selwood (Geel) Reid is a once-in-a- generation player.

[@joelmatthews5697]

Don’t sleep on Rowell. His first 4/5 weeks were special.

[@musicme9986]

exactly was I was going to say when I saw the title

[@johnnyrockets10]

3 weeks i think then got injured right?

[@joelmatthews5697]

@@johnnyrockets10 injured week 5

[@owendavies7452]

Yeoy wouldn't say it, but what he meant is we had more injuries, mandatory concussion retirements and retirements of absolute stars of the Club and a whole lot of terrible luck. But we were always going to work through it, despite what we were copping around the country and we are now, starting to move forward again.

[@BigCatinBKK]

Kane Cornes spent months insisting that WC should trade pick 1.

[@fire_titan5735]

Yep.. he acts like we forget

[@deanbeissel2807]

We will never know what would have happened if we did….glad we didn’t though.

[@BigCatinBKK]

Reid would be starring for Melbourne or North, and Cornes would be bagging WC for trading pick 1.

[@girlsblouse7866]

Another idiot, just like Barrett.

[@daddykarbon]

He isn't going to stay in Perth though that's the point

[@worker-wf2em]

“This is how it unfolded against the Dockers. in a derby no less” Brilliant TJ. West Coast played the Dockers… in derby! 😮

[@skaixx1864]

the same blokes who reckoned reid singlehandedly turned around yeo's performance, despite him spending several months in qatar and having a killer off season. not the sharpest tool in the shed these blokes are

[@NuggetsDungeonTerrain]

I am pretty sure it was Adrian Barich that coined the phrase during the week... "The Monster and The Apprentice" to describe Yeo and Reid. Love that!

[@termintor1]

Hahahahah Damien… he transformed Yeo. This comment shows how little this man knows about footy. Yeo is fit and had a proper preseason. He hasnt been sitting around playing badly. Honestly, the guy is on par with mcclueless.

[@pavementpounder7502]

Props to the Footy Show for playing the old club song.

[@mattyey]

We want it back so bad 😂. Us eagles fans have been begging and pleading on our knees to the club to change it back… We are united to get the old one back… blackfella/whitefella it doesn’t matter, whatever culture/creed/background we are, we just can’t understand why they don’t listen to us lol “Pride in isolation”? “West coast magic is just beginning”? Seriously a theme song is a war cry, not a love ballad. Forget any press conferences, just change it back and then we can get on with our life without cringing 👍❤️

[@pavementpounder7502]

@mattyey yeah definitely, as a fellow Eagles fan. Surely they have to change it back if nearly everyone hates it.

[@mattyey]

@@pavementpounder7502 I think the media in West Coast considered our new song to be “polarising”…. But that is not the case at all… the word “polarising” implies 50% dig it/50% can’t stand it. It was universally hated then and still universally hated now I don’t want to bang on with negativity because we had such an incredible week and I’m a positive dude, but the Eagles can fix this issue in 2 seconds. Change it back

[@AlonsoRules]

After the discussion last week about North winning that pointless game against Gold Coast costing them the #1 pick, it's clear that history has been changed by that game. North are set for years of beltings while West Coast are reigniting the passion of WA. West Coast also has a lot of money in the bank and are probably long way under the cap, so they are going to be able to bring players over.

[@andrewf3346]

North really fumbled their future with that meaningless win against GC last year.

[@AlonsoRules]

@@andrewf3346 Not just their future but the future of the whole competition - West Coast will be a destination club once more while North will be irrelevant battlers. It will affect the trade period, future drafts and free agency.

[@74_pelicans]

JHF is 90% as good as HReid and they fumbled him

[@StuTheDon17]

​@@74_pelicans 65%

[@clancycharlton868]

Tim kelly and Jeremy Mcgovern are still getting payed upward of a million bucks

[@parhamrahimi7886]

Some fella wanted west coast to pass up on Reid

[@Simmo_AU]

Some failed wanna-be firey

[@MusiCatsKing]

The experienced players at Geelong have said the same thing. The young players who come in bring their fresh energy and it energizes the older players to lift and it keeps them going.

[@bloodshot3697]

What they didnt acknowledge was they have Allen, Ryan and Flynn to come into that side. They may not win, but they will trouble alot of sides with their energy.

[@anthonyd4771]

Who?

[@jennycasakadosh]

@@anthonyd4771 What do you mean who? Even Flynn had 250+ hit outs in 9 games last year backing up Briggs.

[@stevelozevski8151]

You bag clubs who tank then bag them if they don't. Wtf

[@justfun7985]

They've been inconsistent for so long. Cornes said WC should've traded the no. 1 pick, and are now saying Reid's the man for the Eagles. He just has to admit he got it wrong.

[@stevelozevski8151]

@@justfun7985 I don't mind when people get things wrong. It happens all the time. Promoting tanking is no good

[@Comatosedpeanut]

Best young gun since daicos and sheezel 😂

[@stevelozevski8151]

Yep, he's better than both

[@Comatosedpeanut]

@@stevelozevski8151no chance.

[@stevelozevski8151]

@@Comatosedpeanut heaps better. He's tough and can do it all. He's already a star and gonna get better. Scary stuff. Sheezel goes good and daicos is a pansy who can't do the hard stuff

[@Comatosedpeanut]

@@stevelozevski8151yet daicos still clears him for contested disposals and tackles for the season. Harley Reid weighs more then him too 🤷‍♂️

[@stevelozevski8151]

@@Comatosedpeanut daicos is a pansy who doesn't get his jumper dirty. Give Reid two more years like daicos then we'll communicate

[@skitzyrex]

Kanes a muppet. Actually Kane, it’s what you get when you have minimal injuries and people can actually have the time to get match fit. Yeo, McGovern and a big amount of players are now back fully fit and playing the footy they can play. Harley is an awesome player, but just one cog in the machine.

[@broken_chairs7118]

The discussion around fitness and standards is rubbish - you can't have fitness when you have the amount of injuries West Coast experienced in 2022-23, and are continually rushing players back underdone just to make up a team. Let's not forget they were forced to field WAFL top up players last year because they didn't have enough availability on their list. Reid is an absolute freak and the energy he is bringing to the team is massive - but Yeo is a 2x All Australian, 2x B&F, 1x Premiership player. His form hasn't come out of nowhere - he's simply having a proper run at it.

[@Documentts]

They say North should’ve tanked but it’s against the rules to tank isn’t in ?

[@Burningthunder90]

I think North tanked a fair bit last year so needed to show some fight. They rested wardlaw on the weekend

[@charlottec5816]

tbf no ome would of known

[@gabrielplattes6253]

Cope with the media? He cares not - he's dragging the team and the media along, loves it. If you could bottle optimism, & lead by the front... This kid is an absolute leader. The entire team is feeding off this energy. ✌😄

[@mattyey]

As an Eagles diehard I want to say to all my other fellow Eagle fans… as euphoric as we all feel right now, let’s stay humble until we get a few more wins 👍 Listen guys, i got the biggest wake up call of my life last year. The freak GWS win early last year… i got teary and emotional thinking “the rebuild is over, no more suffering!!”, later on in the season we paid a price for that early optimism 😂😂. We are absolutely chuffed as we should be… but let’s wait for a few more W’s before we can truly start talking “competitive every single week”. So i am optimistic but cautious of not going overboard 👍. Having said that, how good is Harley Reid? lol

[@bloodshot3697]

Harley Reid will be the next Captain of the West Coast Eagles after Allen turns 30. He will be a premiership player. Thats a big statement after 6 games but he is leading the club to get better and asking everyone to follow him for the ride.

[@01Grytz]

gotta keep him at eagles first

[@Burningthunder90]

North says mckercher and duursma much better

[@bloodshot3697]

@@Burningthunder90 Anyone who believes that has not watched the first 6 rounds or even West Coast on the weekend lol.

[@termintor1]

Yeah we all see the names playing well, but its the Coles, Houghs, Williams, Chessers, who made this win so good. THE ENTIRE TEAM stood up.

[@ianscott424]

This kid might just be the next Selwood - A kid that comes in to a club and defines the culture of that club for years to come. Would love him to move back to Vic and play for my club, but reality is that if he stays on this path til the end of the year, he'll have a long term contract on the table at massive coin and an offer to be the incumbent captain.

[@scotteye84]

TJ: 'Should you be giving credit to the WC board and administration?' KC: Excuse me while I repeat every criticism of the last 3 years

[@vibraphoneification]

you vics are so full of it

[@nickhansen3127]

I am not a Collingwood supporter but what about Nick Daicos who has been brilliant ever since he started.

[@bloodshot3697]

Didnt Kane Cornes say and write an article saying Harley Reid should do everything he can NOT to go to West Coast, he will ruin his career. WOW, he never mentioned this lol

[@Simmo_AU]

Weren't unfit, we had less than half the squad available at times - and even got to the stage where we had to top up with players from outside the list. Now, we have a relatively fit list, and look at the difference it makes. Kane wasn't right, don't massage the truth around his B.S.

[@planetg2125]

Nick Daicos says no

[@stevelozevski8151]

He can say whatever he wants but Reid is better

[@danielmatheson7305]

lol. Light and day Reid is ahead of Daicos. Contested possession, clearances, goals, goal assists, marking, impact per possession, bounces per game and disposal efficiency are all better than Daicos in his debut season

[@fire_titan5735]

Reid chops daicos

[@aroy8094]

​@@danielmatheson7305as a neutral here, just to add to that Reid's showing all this in what is still a pretty poor team in comparison to the pies in daicos debut season

[@Simmo_AU]

Daicos still sleeps in a bunk with his brother, and daddy loves to read them a bedtime story after Fatcat goes to sleep.

[@chinathesideyoudontsee8157]

What all these people are missing is it is the new Fitness and development team that has helped turn things around not just Harly Reid !

[@mattyey]

I am so childishly giddy thinking about the next time Sam McClure makes the next appearance on this show. I am just wondering “what wrong prediction will Sam say next?” 😂😂. I’m a Eagles fan and we are busting his balls so hard I went down the rabbit hole of previous McClure statements over the past few years on KZbin… and his inaccuracies were astonishing. Before AFL approved the Tasmania side he was implying that the idea was in shambles while he debated Caro, he was adamant that it looked like it wasn’t going to happen for Tassie. He said Yeo was going to Gold Coast. He locked in Curnow as the 2023 Brownlow favourite. He said West Coast are definitely not picking Harley Reid (not just opinion, but he claimed it was authentic), he said Dusty isn’t staying at Richmond lol. I am waiting in anticipation for his next stupid prediction.

[@PC-hj4wg]

He is not special, I am special

[@TheLaughingMagpie]

I think West Coast have made good progress, I think they just need to sort their performance department and recruit decent role players to complement Reid and Ginbey

[@aroy8094]

Few weeks ago Yeo should be looking at retirement, now Yeo is in the top 20 players in the comp. This show is the biggest joke

[@90srulz91]

Best young gun since Daicos?

[@Eaglesfan008]

Harley Reid is way better than Nick Daicos in his draft year

[@Eaglesfan008]

@@Comatosedpeanut 100% better

[@Comatosedpeanut]

@@Eaglesfan008 he’s nowhere near as good as daicos was in his first season.

[@Deeeno066]

@@Comatosedpeanutwrong.

[@Comatosedpeanut]

@@Eaglesfan008delusional. When Reid can rack up 40 at 83% efficiency and kick 3 in the same game, come talk to me

[@moregoldmoregold]

He no cats player. Man they are underrated at Geelong

[@Comatosedpeanut]

Yeah they’ve been crushing those bottom 7 sides.

[@terrythekittieful]

@@Comatosedpeanut Crushed one of last year's Grand Finalists last night while playing away and in atrocious conditions.

[@terrythekittieful]

Wouldn't mind Reid at the Cattery but not complaining with the way the Cats are tracking now.

[@AlonsoRules]

Geelong's next captain is ironically playing at North

[@mattyey]

@@terrythekittieful ​​⁠yeh Harley said last week at an Eagles press conference he was a Geelong nuffy, he supported the cats through childhood. Im Eagles fan, and the club is working overtime to try and make him feel at home. Ben Cousins before getting drafted hated the Eagles, he was a Cat nut lol. As a kid he went to every Eagles game barracking against them because of his old man (Geelong player) and after getting drafted he completely came around and adapted. So we got Cuz, Tim Kelly (previously played for Cats), Schoey was cats supporter before coming over. I think all the mentors he has at the moment are Melbourne or Geelong based. I would say the strengths of Eagles culturally is the ability to make our eastern players overcome the struggles of isolation through eastern mentors. The west is very different so this is something we try very hard on… because if we had the approach of throwing Harley in the deep end and saying “you’re on your own… get used to it”, that would be a disaster 😂.

[@Humanityiscomedy]

People forget Rowells first 4 games before he got injured, didn't he get 9 votes in his first 3 games and then injured in the 4th. These guys forget so quickly.

[@donny8619]

You gotta ask how he didn’t play like this against the pies.

[@zakktsakoumangos2101]

Matt Rowell, Sam walsh, Nick daicos…

[@charlesdegois636]

The Resurrection is on, always said we need the right players, and we have in Harley "Davidson" just like the famous bike. 😀

[@trent41980]

This kid makes JHF look like an absolute sook

[@PeterM1-qx1tz]

I think Cornesy is being a bit liberal with the truth.. it was only a month ago he was bagging Elliot Yeo for being unfit, not prepared to do the hard yards, he was an embarrassment to the younger players etc... Its a mark of Elliot that he never responded publicly and just let his footy do the talking. As for our man Harley, where are all those experts who said we should trade him?

[@lukemckean6155]

Victorian clubs already circling for when he wants to come home…

[@lj3998]

Well he’s getting a contract extension so that’ll be a while yet

[@stallon720]

His home is hours out of Melbourne. There is no club thats home for him, well until now with West Coast

[@jakoh8298]

Nick Daicos is the best first year player ever.

[@TommyRooshooter]

That won't be the case by the end of this year. Harley Reid is a once-in-a-generation player. You can see it after only 6 games.

[@OPTIMUS6LTR]

even when they're wrong they were right

[@AussieTVMusic]

Omg settle down you lot. He's played 6 games.

[@SpicyJ81]

How reactionary ahahaha 😂

[@timsutherland1048]

Com'on.......... Since Daicos ..............just now ..........maybe................

[@Yamatji1]

Change the coaches outlook on life / biggest fish bowl which is Wa these mob must love Wa 😂😂😂

[@dimitrietheone]

Enjoy him while you can, Because he will end back up at Carlton in a few years

[@BigCatinBKK]

Thanks for trading Josh Kennedy. He was really useful in the 2018 flag.

[@JonGarrood]

Turn it up it’s not all off the back of one 19 year old. The media has refused to acknowledge the work the eagles have done for the last 2 years. Yes it’s been tough but it always was going to be

[@BDub2024]

Are those guys idiots. The Eagles had 25 fit guys in the whole squad last year. Sometimes they had to rush guys back, which then led to recurring injuries. These commentators would know full well what eventuated last year and how they had to rest guys from mid season to enable them to recover. They also know that a few of them including Yeo and mcgovern went to a specialist in Qatar offseason and Yeo has modified his running style to reduce inuries. Nothing to do with fitness. Fundamentally dishonest.

[@peternut358]

Judge him after 50 games. There’s a guy at Collingwood who probably played the best 1st 50 games in AFL history.

[@nevvanclarke9225]

They were injured it's that simple

[@bloodshot3697]

Sam McClure has a contract for Harley to sign so that he cannot play for the Eagles in 2025 and for the rest of his Career. McClure's own career maybe in Jeopardy if Harley stays at West Coast

[@daviddevenny6005]

And nth melb,,how dumb not getting him,,and losing jaso h francis

[@Comatosedpeanut]

Not really norfs fault that Horne Francis is a pea heart mummy’s boy

[@MADFUTJROD]

Is Daicos a Potato farmer now?

[@deanbeissel2807]

These guys have very short memories….apparently last year daicos was bigger than Jesus!!

[@TommyRooshooter]

Nick Daicos - never done it Simon Black - never did it. Sam Mitchell - never did it. Lenny Hayes - never did it.

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

Should

[@tracykuvekalovic3213]

The Eagles players weren't unfit, they were injured. Kane's doubling-down on his nonsense opinion still.

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

He sold be a roo dam

[@kotchstevens2321]

this young man looks like his got talent to burn..

[@bigbillyz]

Reid will be gone in two years to Tasmania on big money

[@phillipmorphett8412]

Can't stand Chris Judd Harley Reid is going to be better just you wait an see

[@chriscoyne4827]

You joking yeah

[@StuTheDon17]

Judd is a good fella. But Reid could end up being better.

[@lukeslayer]

What's the winning tattslotto numbers next week mate? Cheers Nostradamus.

[@fire_titan5735]

Only reason ya wouldn't like Judd is because he wasn't on your team.. you sound like the biggest flog

[@girlsblouse7866]

Judd is a traitor. Great standards from a ''Captain''. Thanks for Kennedy, Carlton. Twice the Clubman Judd could ever hope to be.

[@jacksonwitten5604]

Do we forget that Sheezel exists? His first 5 games were shitloads better...

[@adamferguson8781]

Reid should be at Hawthorn ya cheats.

[@Burningthunder90]

Mckercher better

[@drdc22]

@@Burningthunder90 you keep posting this to crickets....

[@rightsaidfred803]

Still got Oscar, Liam and Culley to return