B Ellis was taken pick 15 in the 2011 draft. To date, he has played 231 games which is the most of ANY player taken in the national draft that year, second only to Luke Bruest of any player recruited that year. Granted there were better players drafted that year (Greene, Neale, Breust) but not many.
Brandon Ellis will become a 300 game player and has proven to be a quality player and person
Interesting. He will probably be player 9-15 in talent / output on the field any week but super durable and so far seems to have not had any serious injuries. Must do a lot right professionally to have that consistency of output whilst never being a star. As a second round pick this would be outstanding - I guess in first round picks people are looking for match winning qualities over consistency and durability to rate it as a quality pick. It’s probably a well above average return though in the pick 6-18 range.
If you get a 300 game player at pick #15 you take that every day
Agree. He doesn’t have any tricks to give himself time and space either and isn’t an elite kick or decision maker even outside the floating ones. Just very solid overhead, runs and runs and runs. Does all the little things right and typically plays within his limitations. Would be in every teams best 22 and also not in any top 5 b and f.
He was outstanding at times early in his career. Made the AA squad and was 2nd in our B&F in 2014
Z, Jones ??Pick 15 averages 82 games for a career. Brandon Ellis is on 231.
Camporeale holds the record for the pick with 252 games.
Very likely next year he passes him to have the most games played for a Pick 15.
It's not really a great pick for stars that one - Camporeale, Andrew Jarman, Hudghton, Rawlings, Chaplin, Dunn, Varcoe, R Tarrant, Z Jones, L McCabe, Wiggins, Daniel Rioli and Ellis the standouts.
Out of them 13, he might be top 8-9? Camporeale, A Jarman, Daniel Rioli, Varcoe, Tarrant, Z Jones probably all ahead of him, then 50/50 line calls the rest I reckon
Yeah agree with you, was just throwing some names around, see who likes what
Not sure how long the draft has been going but he is definitely top 20% for that pick. Good way to put it into perspective. Not too many Boltons hanging around that pick.Pick 15 averages 82 games for a career. Brandon Ellis is on 231.
Camporeale holds the record for the pick with 252 games.
Very likely next year he passes him to have the most games played for a Pick 15.
It's not really a great pick for stars that one - Camporeale, Andrew Jarman, Hudghton, Rawlings, Chaplin, Dunn, Varcoe, R Tarrant, Z Jones, L McCabe, Wiggins, Daniel Rioli and Ellis the standouts.
Out of them 13, he might be top 7-8? Camporeale, A Jarman, Daniel Rioli, Varcoe, Tarrant probably all ahead of him, then 50/50 line calls the rest I reckon
The first drafts were 1981-1982, jumped to 1986 and every year since.
Loving your work on here Rice a Riso.The first drafts were 1981-1982, jumped to 1986 and every year since.
Also, his draft there were two picks before the draft - a Mini-Draft - O'Meara to Gold Coast and Brad Crouch to Adelaide. So he's really pick 17.
Then add in the fact GWS had 11 picks before us, if the Giants had just the one pick instead of 11 picks we would have had pick 7 which went Buntine, Wingard, Haynes, Longer, Tomlinson, Sumner, Toby Green, Adams, Devon Smith, B Ellis.
So who knows out of them if it was not a compromised draft, who we would have drafted? Toby
And the two drafts before the 2011 draft were even worse, 10-15 players both years were pretty much taken off the player list you could draft from. And then also giving both new teams the top picks in the first round, everyone else's first pick was diluted from $1,000 bottles of Moet to a bottle of vinegar!!
And that's why no one was going past the Hawks for a few years until their players aged and their era was over. Because the Giants and Suns took a few players away from teams who may have just needed that Cameron or a Prestia just a bit earlier than they got them
Thanks mate. Grew up loving to read.
Nah, I was too busy trying to pick up sheilasAny of you guys do the midnight paper pick up run? Miss doing that to be honest. We'd play pinnies across the road from Billboards then onto the club or go and pick up the papers
Still trying???Nah, I was too busy trying to pick up sheilas
