Player Watch #32 - Corey Ellis

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I was at his first game ... remarkable how a guy who started the pre-season at Mildura Imperials could progress to Richmond under-19s , reserves and then seniors. I remember his first kick and how Peter Wilson ran about 55 metres to go and pat him on the back and offer some words of encouragement.
Also remember it for the great man Phil Egan booting seven goals. Reckon it was the year that Phil and the Ghost combined to be a very potent dual key-forward set-up out of the square for a four or five weeks, til injury hot.
But remember Knighta and thinking we've got a serious player here, something I have said only three times since after a debut game fro a Tiger.[/Q
Peter Wilson... geez I was disappointed when he went home
 

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There is no doubting his football ability. At 21 he is going from a boy to a man and his football will reflect it.

I hope like hell he kicks on because we really need to start looking for the next generation of not just players but stars.
 

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There is no doubting his football ability. At 21 he is going from a boy to a man and his football will reflect it.

I hope like hell he kicks on because we really need to start looking for the next generation of not just players but stars.
He's improving, slowly, but do you really think he can be a star? If that was on the cards I think he might shown a bit of extraordinary something by now. If we get another Grigg like player outa him that will do me.
 

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There is no doubting his football ability. At 21 he is going from a boy to a man and his football will reflect it.

I hope like hell he kicks on because we really need to start looking for the next generation of not just players but stars.
A star? Small steps first!
 

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we've been lucky in some sense that two of our guns in cotch and dusty showed a lot early. I don't think Corey is ever going to be that level but he can be a very good 4th or 5th stringer. Will have to compete for midfield time in a team thats batting deep there at the moment. He has a big challenge on his hands to break in there so he has to develop in another role so he can get senior game time. I'm just not sure what that position is - looked good forward v the hawks last year so maybe there. Dunno
 

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Peter Wilson, the man had a temper but a liking for his self importance.
Very passionate
Once saw him get hit in the head by a football kicked by a little kid while they were doing a warm up lap at Bayswater before a praccy game (same game Martyn knocked out Michael Mitchell).
Pur accident by the kid, didn't stop Wilson pithing it back at the kid at about 120km an hour. Poor form!
 

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Peter Wilson, the man had a temper but a liking for his self importance.
Very passionate
yes wilson was very smug..... tiges threw top $$$$ a him and organised a tigerpub for him to run, i reckon willo put too/spent much time at that pub on his feet 10 hours a day and was flat for his footy and it showed... when contract and business dealings expired, he was outta the joint like lightning.
 

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yes wilson was very smug..... tiges threw top $$$$ a him and organised a tigerpub for him to run, i reckon willo put too/spent much time at that pub on his feet 10 hours a day and was flat for his footy and it showed... when contract and business dealings expired, he was outta the joint like lightning.
If I recall didn't react too well when KB dropped him one week. Thought he was above it.
Though played some good footy for WC.
 

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yes wilson was very smug..... tiges threw top $$$$ a him and organised a tigerpub for him to run, i reckon willo put too/spent much time at that pub on his feet 10 hours a day and was flat for his footy and it showed... when contract and business dealings expired, he was outta the joint like lightning.
I guess to be fair, it wasn't a great time at Tigerland in the late 80's and the shiny new WCE in his home state was too hard to ignore. Won a flag so...

Tried his guts out until about midway through his final season in 89.
 

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So the RFC website puts up a highlight reel for Conca but not Ellis who had a better game.
To be fair I think they only did that because he was mentioned in DH’s presser.


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So the RFC website puts up a highlight reel for Conca but not Ellis who had a better game.
To be fair I think they only did that because he was mentioned in DH’s presser.


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No ..... RFC has joined Goldy's apparent crusade and conspiracy ;)
 

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we've been lucky in some sense that two of our guns in cotch and dusty showed a lot early. I don't think Corey is ever going to be that level but he can be a very good 4th or 5th stringer. Will have to compete for midfield time in a team thats batting deep there at the moment. He has a big challenge on his hands to break in there so he has to develop in another role so he can get senior game time. I'm just not sure what that position is - looked good forward v the hawks last year so maybe there. Dunno
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Comparisons to Matty Knights are a way off. Given Knighta had nearly 20 possessions on debut as a 17 year old, who started that year in the under-19s and then through the reserves and by game four had over 20 touches and two goals from seven shots on goal.
Knights won a best and fairest in year three, still the youngest ever winner of our great club's best and fairest, and in only his second full season (he played four games at the end of his first).
Season four Knights had 535 possessions and 16 goals. Impressive numbers.
Yep one of the best ever. Just had time and space like very few.
 

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Wish I recorded the game, I want to see that clearance he did in the final quarter where he made space out of nothing.
He needs to find that balance that Pendlebury and Bontempelli have. They appear to always have plenty of time, and they don’t really play with much intensity, but they get bucketloads of the pill and are extremely damaging with it.
Pendlebury has always been skinny, but he is also quite tall. Bontempelli has a bit of a Fyfe build.

We say it all the time but it comes down to confidence, not only within himself, but his team mates need to feel confident giving him the pill.
I watch him pretty closely and his positioning is excellent in general play, but he doesn’t demand the ball like Dusty does.
Obviously completely different players, but you’re always going to give Dusty or Cotch the ball before CEllis.
The more solid games he puts together I think we will see a consistent increase in his stats and his effectiveness because his team mates will want to get it to him, because more often then not, he will make something happen. He has always been like that and Hardwick has said it before as well.

Just really hoping he goes on with it now considering it appears his injury woes are behind him.


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grabbed the loose ball cleanly, looked one way, went the other... was surrounded by 3 or 4 bombers so he weaved and moved sideways to open up a little gap for himself then went straight through it... leaving the bomber boys flat footed and wide eyed. used his full measure and hit the top of the square.
 

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grabbed the loose ball cleanly, looked one way, went the other... was surrounded by 3 or 4 bombers so he weaved and moved sideways to open up a little gap for himself then went straight through it... leaving the bomber boys flat footed and wide eyed. used his full measure and hit the top of the square.
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Well TI, I guess if he did in fact actually 'grab the loose ball cleanly, looked one way, went the other... was surrounded by 3 or 4 bombers so he weaved and moved sideways to open up a little gap for himself then went straight through it', I guess four years in he finally has another highlight to add to that goal he kicked against Essendon in 2015 that some continue to rave about ;)
 
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