Eli

[FQF]

Wearing CJ's number and sporting CJ's hairdo, kinda weird. Anyway, I can't see how dropping him would be a positive step in his development. He needs at least another game to settle.

[Armoooo]

Sinclair and Lonie are so far ahead of the likes of Eli and Mitch it's not even funny.

[Saint wagga]

Sinclair and Lonie are so far ahead of the likes of Eli and Mitch it's not even funny.

No, I don't think they are.

[plugger66]

Sinclair and Lonie are so far ahead of the likes of Eli and Mitch it's not even funny.

No, I don't think they are.

I hope they are otherwise all 4 probably wont make it.

[Saint wagga]

Sinclair and Lonie are so far ahead of the likes of Eli and Mitch it's not even funny.

No, I don't think they are.

I hope they are otherwise all 4 probably wont make it.

Richo seemed a pretty large rap on Eli last year, mentioned him constantly along with billings and dunstan as the 'next gen' of guns coming thru. Whipped straight off the rookie and contacted up; all signs he's rated pretty highly by the only people that matter. If i was a betting man, I'd say 2 will make it to 100 gamers, my money would be on Eli and Lonie

[plugger66]

Sinclair and Lonie are so far ahead of the likes of Eli and Mitch it's not even funny.

No, I don't think they are.

I hope they are otherwise all 4 probably wont make it.

Richo seemed a pretty large rap on Eli last year, mentioned him constantly along with billings and dunstan as the 'next gen' of guns coming thru. Whipped straight off the rookie and contacted up; all signs he's rated pretty highly by the only people that matter. If i was a betting man, I'd say 2 will make it to 100 gamers, my money would be on Eli and Lonie

As you can tell im going with Sinclair and Lonie as bot h of them have already shown they can run through the middle. The other 2 haven't shown that at all unfortunately. Eli has a while to go but Minchington is on his last legs.

[SMS]

He will make it.

Saints v gws round 2 2013
Watch it closely. Theres your answer.
Gun.

Just needs his confidence back. Crikey hes 19/20 loving interstate had his arm nearly amputated give him a break. Great skill there and footy brain. He'll be right.

[Saint wagga]

Sinclair and Lonie are so far ahead of the likes of Eli and Mitch it's not even funny.

No, I don't think they are.

I hope they are otherwise all 4 probably wont make it.

Richo seemed a pretty large rap on Eli last year, mentioned him constantly along with billings and dunstan as the 'next gen' of guns coming thru. Whipped straight off the rookie and contacted up; all signs he's rated pretty highly by the only people that matter. If i was a betting man, I'd say 2 will make it to 100 gamers, my money would be on Eli and Lonie

As you can tell im going with Sinclair and Lonie as bot h of them have already shown they can run through the middle. The other 2 haven't shown that at all unfortunately. Eli has a while to go but Minchington is on his last legs.

I'm not grouping Lonie and Sinclair together, I rate Lonie far better at this stage. Both have had time on ball, but i'd hardly say they have demonstrated they can 'run thru the middle'. SInclair floats in and out of games, he's classy yes and doing great for his experience, but his posi tally hasn't topped 15 (if thats wrong cuorrect me someone please).

I certainly feel both have been gven far more lee way in holding their spots over Minchi mostly, but even Eli this year. There's an element that these are Richo's boys, first year he had any say in draft/recruiting descions...if people say that an element of coaches favourites doesn't exsist, i disagree, it's part of human psychology 101, ask any parent with more than 1 kid if they like them 'the same' etc...but i digress.

[Armoooo]

Sinclair and Lonie are so far ahead of the likes of Eli and Mitch it's not even funny.

No, I don't think they are.

I hope they are otherwise all 4 probably wont make it.

Richo seemed a pretty large rap on Eli last year, mentioned him constantly along with billings and dunstan as the 'next gen' of guns coming thru. Whipped straight off the rookie and contacted up; all signs he's rated pretty highly by the only people that matter. If i was a betting man, I'd say 2 will make it to 100 gamers, my money would be on Eli and Lonie

Each to their own but I think you are really underrated Sinclair, he is such a clean handler of the ball, and has such a scoreboard impact. Billings, Sinclair and Lonie will all power their way to 100 games... Eli might get there but less convincingly and Minch won't be on the list by 2017... All imo ofcourse.

[Rosco]

I'm not grouping Lonie and Sinclair together, I rate Lonie far better at this stage. Both have had time on ball, but i'd hardly say they have demonstrated they can 'run thru the middle'. SInclair floats in and out of games, he's classy yes and doing great for his experience, but his posi tally hasn't topped 15 (if thats wrong cuorrect me someone please).

I certainly feel both have been gven far more lee way in holding their spots over Minchi mostly, but even Eli this year. There's an element that these are Richo's boys, first year he had any say in draft/recruiting descions...if people say that an element of coaches favourites doesn't exsist, i disagree, it's part of human psychology 101, ask any parent with more than 1 kid if they like them 'the same' etc...but i digress.

Sinclair had one game of 19 possessions, along with 2x 15 poss. 19 against Gold Coast Round 2.

[dragit]

While both have plenty of time up their sleeve, Sinclair is streets ahead of Eli at this stage, no doubt in the world. Twice as many goals per game for starters.

Templeton has looked lost at AFL level, while Sinclair is a bona fide starting 18 player.

Still time for him though, but it is a hard team to break into as a small forward at the moment, hopefully he gets another chance to redeem himself.

[Goose is king]

[quote="dragit"]While both have plenty of time up their sleeve, Sinclair is streets ahead of Eli at this stage, no doubt in the world. Twice as many goals per game for starters.

Templeton has looked lost at AFL level, while Sinclair is a bona fide starting 18 player.

Still time for him though, but it is a hard team to break into as a small forward at the moment, hopefully he gets another chance to redeem himself.[/quote]


This. A few full games would be nice

[bergholt]

I'm not grouping Lonie and Sinclair together, I rate Lonie far better at this stage. Both have had time on ball, but i'd hardly say they have demonstrated they can 'run thru the middle'. SInclair floats in and out of games, he's classy yes and doing great for his experience, but his posi tally hasn't topped 15 (if thats wrong cuorrect me someone please).

I certainly feel both have been gven far more lee way in holding their spots over Minchi mostly, but even Eli this year. There's an element that these are Richo's boys, first year he had any say in draft/recruiting descions...if people say that an element of coaches favourites doesn't exsist, i disagree, it's part of human psychology 101, ask any parent with more than 1 kid if they like them 'the same' etc...but i digress.

Sinclair had one game of 19 possessions, along with 2x 15 poss. 19 against Gold Coast Round 2.

But 12 of those 19 were handballs, also only 1 tackle.

Personally I think he's a lock to make it, but he has a lot of work to do to make the step up.

[Sawf]

People seem to have short memories...

After the first 3 games last year, Eli had 4 goals and some pretty handy assists from half-forward - he was the next big thing.

Fast-forward to now and people have jumped off that bandwagon and onto the next big thing(s) in Lonie and Sinclair.

As many have mentioned, Eli just needs to get some confidence back after an extremely bad broken arm. He's already shown us what he's capable of.

Second-year blues gets thrown around a fair bit in the AFL (take people's opinion of Dunstan this year for example), so please remember this, just in case the same thing happens to Lonie and Sinclair next year.

Oh, I also think that all 4 players I've mentioned will make it and play 100+ games for the mighty Saints...

Cheers

[Armoooo]

Is it possible that Eli was overrated as a single shining light in an otherwise very dark year.

A couple of early wins probably inflated peoples opinions of him as well imo.

[whiskers3614]

Don't want anybody who can only play small forward.
Hope these blokes aren't a repeat of Milera, Saad & Denis-Lane!
Fair dinkum what were they thinking?

[Trev from the Bush]

Don't want anybody who can only play small forward.
Hope these blokes aren't a repeat of Milera, Saad & Denis-Lane!
Fair dinkum what were they thinking?

"They" were probably thinking "they'd" need an eventual replacement for Stephen Milne. Not that easy a task, obviously.