Cameron Ellis Yeoman or Aaron Young?

swoop42 · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 12:48 pm

Aaron Young.

188cm, 81kg

Turns 23 in December.

Had a season high 25 possessions against Hawthorn in round 4.

Had under 50% game time in 5 of his 11 games.

http://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/A/Aaron_Young.html

Cameron Ellis-Yolmen

189cm, 94kg

Turns 23 in January 2016.

Had a season high 24 possession against Collingwood in round 2.

Had under 50% game time in 3 of his 11 games.

http://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/C/Cam_Ellis-Yolmen.html

jdpie1970 · Joined: 26 Sep 2014

Ellis Yoeman is far superior to Young. Have a look at our game against Adelaide at the start of 15 and you will see what he brings to the table. He got injured mid year and didn't get back in as the other Adelaide mids were in the midst of a sustained period of form.
He is a very valuable commodity and if we could extract him from a Kennedy deal it would be gold.

swoop42 · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 1:21 pm

Not much love for Young over at bigfooty.

A contested ball winner but a poor user of the ball seems to be the line of thinking.

Think he might be a bit of a half back flanker also.

I know Bucks loves these hard nosed types and they have a place but do we really need more of this type?

watt price tully · Joined: 15 May 2007

watt price tully · Joined: 15 May 2007

I'd prefer Yeoman but I'd be choosing between a not really unknown to a not particularly well known. He did play a blinder agin "us" this year.

jackcass · Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Location: Bendigo

AN_Inkling · Joined: 06 Oct 2007

HAL · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 2:24 pm

That's just your personal opinion.

3rd degree · Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Location: John Wren's tote

Could we make one of these blokes into a good back pocket? We need someone to replace Toovey over time.

Rick · Joined: 11 May 2008

If it's going to be a 3 way trade with Collingwood, Melbourne and Port, I'd rather Andrew Moore or Cam O'shea. Aaron Young is a poor mans Toovey.

matrix10 · Joined: 17 May 2009

Ellis-Yeoman tore us a new one early this year-looked strong in the contest and some leg- didnt see enough more of him to comment further.
Young is a good, honest battler-think Reece Conca (good clubman- prone to brain farts).

I'm with Brenny- would rather Watts- at least there is plenty of upside and then it is a straight swap of unfulfilled talent.

richo · Joined: 06 Sep 2004

Kennedy and Seedsman are better than both of these spuds, makes no sense.

swoop42 · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 9:16 pm

AN_Inkling · Joined: 06 Oct 2007

Not seeing the Toovey comparison. Young's more of a runner and inside mid than a one on one specialist. Maybe if Toovey played as a mid? But Moore doesn't have the same skating on ice running style.

Anyway, not going to get worked up over these blokes until we are seriously linked to them. At the moment we have some fringe players on the way out and need to look at some in return, I'm sure we'd have more than one or two options depending on where other deals land.

swoop42 · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 10:21 pm

I'm not against the idea of Young as Hine though not infallible has a keen eye for diamonds in the rough so we'll back him in.

The only question would be is he the style of player we need?

As for Kennedy I like him, he's got courage and plays with energy around the contest but seemed to take to the field this season in the AFL with a lot of anxiety on his shoulders knowing he needed to impress.

Unfortunately this only served to hamper him and his performances weren't as good as what he had previously displayed.

He's better than that but as a player who is essentially still best suited as a small inside midfielder I can't see a spot for him opening up unless he improves his crumbing and kicking ability forward of centre.