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How did this guy go on the weekend? Is he eligable for this years draft or is he a bottom aged player in the NAB Championships?
Steele Sidebottom
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Not sure how he went on the weekend, but Steele is eligible for this years draft as a bottom ager, his birthday is Jan 2.
I don't think they have changed the draft rules yet.
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Sidebottom as expected, delivered on the main stage yesterday.. certainty to get picked up this year and most people would say he is almost a lock in top 10 pick. Love the way he goes about his footy (from the limited amount i've seen of him i must add)
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Silky skills when he's got it, unmatched by anyone out there yesterday and he took an absolute screamer in the forward line, right in front of where i was sitting.
Only negative was he seemed to go missing for a big patch, i think it was the 3rd quarter when they pushed him deep into the forward line.
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I absolutely love him... I've been saying I want Collingwood to draft him for months.
Don't know that I'd say "definite" Top 10, but he's definite 1st round.
Reminds me a bit of Veszpremi from last year.
Don't know that I'd say "definite" Top 10, but he's definite 1st round.
Reminds me a bit of Veszpremi from last year.
must be a real hard arse
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I wrote this about Veszpremi last year Vin:
Having not seen Steele, I imagine he's hard at it, with decent, but not overly wonderful skills?
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Deserves to go number one because of his name.
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your missing out mate,his a freak and got the best skills goin around
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I think it's underrating both Veszpremi and Sidebottom to refer to their skills as "decent, but not overly wonderful".
Both have well above average footskills, IMO.
I didn't see Veszpremi last year, but i saw Sidebottom on sunday and his foot skills were a cut above. He can get the ball himself and he reads the play really well, but i wouldn't describe him as a tough, gritty midfielder, most the hard stuff was being done by Suban and Hooper.
I can't compare with the rest of the teams in the champs as i haven't seen them, but he was clearly the best ball user when he got his hands on it IMO
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When you say Sidebottom's skills are good, do you mean over short range (<40m), long (>50m) or both. Can he produce long, penetrating kicks? What's his pace/accleration like?
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He's not an inside midfielder like a Daniel Harris or a Sam Mitchell, but he has the kind of "get it and run" type of ability that someone like a Shaun Burgoyne possesses.
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Nah, Bartel's much more naturally inside... From Geelong, he'd be more like Ablett, although that's an excessively lofty comparison, and even at my most optimistic I'd say he'll never be that good.
He's a naturally outside runner and ball carrier, but around stoppages, he will go in and get the ball out. The thing he doesn't do is just go in, wear a tackle and then feed it off to somebody else. He is generally going in for the ball if he can come out with it as well.
He's a naturally outside runner and ball carrier, but around stoppages, he will go in and get the ball out. The thing he doesn't do is just go in, wear a tackle and then feed it off to somebody else. He is generally going in for the ball if he can come out with it as well.
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his got every skill possible covered mate . pin point passes 50m+ away, short passes is excellent barely misses a target no matter the distance, if u ask me its worth paying to see him play!
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Yeah, good call on ablett like in regards to his style of play, can go and get it but more like to be on the receiving end of the inside handball. If ablett is a bit lofty, maybe a comparison to travis johnstone is better, sublime skills and the in and under players look for him because they know he uses it well.
You're not going to build you midfield around him like bartel or black, he's your cream like an ablett or the extra something johnstone has given brisbane this year.
Sounds like someone perfect for us.
Judd, Murphy, Gibbs to form the core of the midfield with Stevens, Grigg, Walker, Browne, Sidebottom complementing. I like it
And it seems like he is going to be around the mark where we will have our pick this year.Though my preference is still a KPP with Hurley and Trengrove the leading candidates in that department.
Sounds like someone perfect for us.
Judd, Murphy, Gibbs to form the core of the midfield with Stevens, Grigg, Walker, Browne, Sidebottom complementing. I like it
Though my preference is still a KPP with Hurley and Trengrove the leading candidates in that department.
Thats a scary thought. A Carlton midfield made up of Kruezer in the ruck, Judd, Murphy and Sidebottom. You could have the same midfield for 6-7 years until judd slows down.
If you guys finish just out of the 8 he'd be a good pick at 6 or 7, but you may want KP. If mid ranked clubs went key position, he'd be an absolute steele out side of the top 10.
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love it!!
Just one look at the champs team lists, there's a whole raft of puns to be had.
It would be a bit Rich to say anyone was a certainty for top 3.
And a special one for you Bourky. It'd be a Heyneous crime if he went outside the top 20.
Yes, yes.
Steele might go to a side near bottom of the ladder.