Essendon Vs Collingwood

[Hirdy_5]

Wondering what you guys thought, which team do you think will be more dominant in 5 years time, which team has more potential so basicly which team has the better younger players? Just to name a few Players for Essendon, Riemers, Lonergan, Ryder, Neagle, Myers, Houli, Jetta ect, So what do you guys think ?

 

[pieman123]

we have much more talented youngsters than essendons so id say us

 

[Windas_Magic]

Pointless thread, Essendon supporters would say us and Collingwood fans would say them. Also, a lot of our young players are un-proven and some are just beginning to get some games under their belt.

P.S i vote Essendon

 

[Barry Zuckercorn]

Essendon has consistently finished below Collingwood for the last few years (other than 05 I think) yet Collingwood has procured significantly better youngsters.

 

[Gods_Son23]

collingwood, every youngster they try seems to work these days.

 

[parrot]

Both teams younger player groups are ranked bottom 4 on the AFL talent ladder. The Pies younger players are of much the same ability, and there are no potential superstars among them. The Dons do at least have a few younger players who could be real quality in the future e.g. Gumbleton, Ryder, Meyer. So the Dons are in better shape, although still in bad shape compared to other AFL CLubs.

 

[hellfire]

Collingwood. But I do rate Essendon's youngsters.

Travis Cloke
Heath Shaw
Scott Pendlebury
Dale Thomas
Harry O'Brien
Nathan Brown
Marty Clarke
Sharrod Wellingham
Tyson Goldsack
Ben Reid
Cameron Wood
Brad Dick
Sean Rusling

I also think John Anthony and John McCarthy will be very good players, better than a lot of the above list.

 

[Dave The Man]

Both teams younger player groups are ranked bottom 4 on the AFL talent ladder. The Pies younger players are of much the same ability, and there are no potential superstars among them. The Dons do at least have a few younger players who could be real quality in the future e.g. Gumbleton, Ryder, Meyer. So the Dons are in better shape, although still in bad shape compared to other AFL CLubs.

So I guess Carlton youngsters will all be as good as Judd Than Parrot

 

[Adebayor]

So I guess Carlton youngsters will all be as good as Judd Than Parrot

Stop starting every word with a capital letter.

 

[OniAu]

Both teams younger player groups are ranked bottom 4 on the AFL talent ladder. The Pies younger players are of much the same ability, and there are no potential superstars among them. The Dons do at least have a few younger players who could be real quality in the future e.g. Gumbleton, Ryder, Meyer. So the Dons are in better shape, although still in bad shape compared to other AFL CLubs.

yeah dons are in better shape for sure, ryders set the world on fire in the backline, somethign N Brown hasnt managed to do in his first season, meyer i havent seen. gumbleton would match rusling for injury proneness

good call

pies make a prelim with

thomas obrien goldsack clarke cloke pendlebury rusling all close to 21 and under. better start to rebuild for sure

superstar status is thrown around too much , carltons list doesnt have any young players that will make the status of superstar. most are workmen like.

 

[parrot]

yeah dons are in better shape for sure, ryders set the world on fire in the backline, somethign N Brown hasnt managed to do in his first season, meyer i havent seen. gumbleton would match rusling for injury proneness..

Ryder and Gumbleton have light years more talent than Brown and Rusling. Gumbleton has struggled to get on the park because of injury. Brown is very slow and has poor agility, and keeps getting thrashed as a KP defender - perhaps he should be tried up forward. Rusling is just average. Can run fast in a straight line, but that's about it.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

Collingwood. While Essendon seem to have some talented youngsters their development has been servely hampered by injury, at the same stages of their careers the Pies kids have shown alot more.

 

[Heater39]

Ryder and Gumbleton have light years more talent than Brown and Rusling. Gumbleton has struggled to get on the park because of injury. Brown is very slow and has poor agility, and keeps getting thrashed as a KP defender - perhaps he should be tried up forward. Rusling is just average. Can run fast in a straight line, but that's about it.

Brown has only been thrashed by Fev and Franklin (not to the same extent as Ryder though) arguably the two best forwards in the comp. at least Brown has beaten some of his opponents this year and has the body to match up on some of the games bigger forwards. Ryder doesn't have the strength to match it with key forwards. as for Gumbleton being a star hes only played 2 games so it's a bit early to tell.