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[WellardSaint]

cant see the article

heading is 'former Saint, Demon open to third club'

who dat

[skeptic]

Riley Bonner

Edit - I read it if it’s the same one
Nothing article. Just that he was shocked to be delisted after 19 games and that he still has lots to offer

[saintbob]

Billings???

[Otiman]

cant see the article

heading is 'former Saint, Demon open to third club'

who dat

Talking about 2 different players, Bonner and Tomlinson.

[saynta]

cant see the article

heading is 'former Saint, Demon open to third club'

who dat

Talking about 2 different players, Bonner and Tomlinson.

Yes.

[1971]

Watching Zero Hanger's review of the draft period, one fellow said we did ok because we now have 7&8 with the qualification that we need to use them wisely. To which another fellow added yes St Kilda has a habit of not doing that. Really annoys me that because all clubs bugger up draft picks not just us.

[Banger9798]

Reckon Phillipou, Milera and Wilson have been pretty good recently....all would go higher in a revised draft of their respective years.

[Killa]

And before that Clark and King both first round selections

There have been some misses as there are for all Clubs and in our case McCartin (due to injury) along with Billings, Dunstan, Acres and Coffield all of whom went to other Clubs with varying rates of success

We have Dow and Stocker, both first round selections from Carlton, and now Macrae from WB

So swings and roundabouts

We trust 7 and 8 replicate Wanganeen-Milera, Phillipou and Wilson

Then there are Sinclair, Marshall and Wilkie all off the Rookie List

[St Dave]

Watching Zero Hanger's review of the draft period, one fellow said we did ok because we now have 7&8 with the qualification that we need to use them wisely. To which another fellow added yes St Kilda has a habit of not doing that. Really annoys me that because all clubs bugger up draft picks not just us.

We had a pretty barren period for basically a decade up until recently. Thankfully recent picks seem to be much better.

[Otiman]

Reckon Phillipou, Milera and Wilson have been pretty good recently....all would go higher in a revised draft of their respective years.

A rerun of the draft would see them each top 3.

Garcia could also be a first rounder.

[repta]

I didn't know Bonner was delisted. 19 games then dumped.
Yes ordinary by foot. Bad decisions etc. He was given a lot of game time.
Thought would have been useful as a backup as we have made lots of changes already and don't have many draft selections ( is it 4)
Are we going to be that active in the delisted draft?

[Otiman]

I didn't know Bonner was delisted. 19 games then dumped.
Yes ordinary by foot. Bad decisions etc. He was given a lot of game time.
Thought would have been useful as a backup as we have made lots of changes already and don't have many draft selections ( is it 4)
Are we going to be that active in the delisted draft?

I think Bonner had enough upside that he was worth getting games into to see if he ended up gelling with the team.

He did not, but it was worth the gamble. Lost nothing from it other than some games into first year players.

[The_Dud]

Yeah it was odd how many games Bonner got before being delisted. His deficiencies were pretty apparent from very early on, yet he kept getting picked over younger blokes.

[WellardSaint]

After one game, Ross spoke about a Bonner turnover and said he told Bonner it was OK, 'we got u for your long kicking, so keep doing that'
At the time, Ross might've been aware of one game where he had 17 turnovers

[Trixilver]

I mean you have to encourage no matter what. That's how you find out about the deficiencies.

[SteeleSaints]

I didn't know Bonner was delisted. 19 games then dumped.
Yes ordinary by foot. Bad decisions etc. He was given a lot of game time.
Thought would have been useful as a backup as we have made lots of changes already and don't have many draft selections ( is it 4)
Are we going to be that active in the delisted draft?

I think Bonner had enough upside that he was worth getting games into to see if he ended up gelling with the team.

He did not, but it was worth the gamble. Lost nothing from it other than some games into first year players.

I couldn't disagree more - the decision to recruit him and then play him, when we have so many developing back flankers on our list was really poor forethought IMO. The guy showed he had the heart the size of a pea at Port yet we waste 19 games on him. Those games could have gone into the development of Hastie, Shoenmaker and McLennan who have a future in AFL unlike Bonner. Lyon is as much to blame as the list management team in this regard, Bonner was never a solid player at either club.

[Lennylegs]

After one game, Ross spoke about a Bonner turnover and said he told Bonner it was OK, 'we got u for your long kicking, so keep doing that'
At the time, Ross might've been aware of one game where he had 17 turnovers

Nah that was after the Collingwood game. The 17 turnover game was against Essendrug.

[Killa]

Well he played over 100 AFL games across 2 Clubs.

The majority of those at Port Adelaide who have had a consistent presence in September.

So how did he get to over 100 games?

Typical of mid-range players Clubs are looking to improve on - and, in our case freeing Sinclair up to play midfield.

It became obvious that Sinclair can do more damage from defence.