I have a question for Dogs fans....was Reynolds always like this in his junior days? When he first came into grade, I remember him being physical, very keen in defence and fairly clean. I don't recall him having the brain explosions he has had for just under a year now....and it is really affecting his form.
To be honest he did not seem this bad, or it was not noticeable.
He was always a competitor, he occasionally did dumb things but seemed no different to any other junior footy player.
In particular I've never seen him try to trip player until recently, but he does seem to have got into a bad habit in this area.
He has always been a weak defender and that is probably why Des moved him from the 9 to the halves. His defense is much worse when playing injured and is tendency to brain explosions also seems much worse when playing injured.
The real slide seemed to stem from his involvement in SOO last year, it has almost been an out of control downhill spiral since then.
When interviewed off the field he seems like a regular guy there is no indication that he is in the Greg Bird/Todd Carney class in terms off field behavior or the type of bloke he is deep down.
The real question is:- Can he turn it around?
I can understand why a lot of fans have lost respect for him and he has a lot of ground to make up.
Playing in this years SOO would be the worst thing that can happen to him, he is well out of his depth.
