Just curious how people rank these three in terms of potential and why?
I personally have Wellingham on top, though pretty much neck and neck with Beams, with a decent drop to Sidebottom.
Reasons being Wellingham is by far the superior athlete of the three, and is pretty much good to very good in just about every skill, kicking, tackling, one touch, composure under pressure (think he's the closest in the team to Pendles in this area), pace, even toughness, though his third and fourth efforts could use some work. Even his overhead marking and leap, it hasn't been so much on display in recent games, but anyone that saw his first few games for the club, he was basically played on a forward pocket/wing and took some excellent contested marks, with a big spring, in fact it was the major thing that stood out to me even over his speed.
His concentration levels have improved leaps and bounds, he stays in games, the only two things he actually needs to work on are decision making and those third and fourth efforts, everything else is pretty good.
I know people have gone off Daniel Kerr due to current form and also a few other issues, but Daniel Kerr on form is IMO a phenomenal player. Wellingham to me seems like a Daniel Kerr lite, but hopefully without the off field and anger issues.
Beams was basically Joel Selwood against the Bombers. Under packs extracting and dishing off, delivering pin point into the forward 50, left and right foot. I think a lot of his game is pretty similar and he could end up being close to as good a player.
Sidebottom has an excellent footy brain, and is also quite composed and is a player that always seems to make the right decision with the footy. I just don't know whether he is going to be the player Collingwood fans expect him to be in this day and age. He almost certainly would have been a superstar of the comp back in the 70's and 80's, and perhaps even 90's. But today I don't know if he has the physical tools to be that good. He is a solid kick on both feet, but to me lacks both the depth and penetration that Beams and Wellingham are able to generate. I don't think I've ever seen him kick over 40 metres. People who say he will simply develop a big kick with added strength, that is rubbish. He's slow and doesn't have quite Pendlebury's supreme level of awareness to where he can simply lope through 3 players as though they aren't there take a few bounces and dish off, which is what makes Pendlebury such a good outside player despite having no real foot speed.
At the moment he reminds me of Tarkyn Lockyer, with a little bit of Shane O'Bree. O'Bree only in terms of reading the play and drop of the ball and not skill wise. Most will probably say he has much better foot skills than Lockyer, but I haven't seen it. He's accurate by foot, both feet in fact, but so is Lockyer. They both seem to have similar depth on their kicking, which is around 40-45 metres. I'm going with that purely from what I've seen of him for Collingwood, not anything else, like TAC Cup. Sidebottom does have superior awareness to both and is a better decision maker. Basically I see Sidebottom having a similar career, I expect him to be better than both Lockyer and O'Bree but not by a huge margin. Would be happy to be proven wrong. Would especially be happy to be proven wrong if he turns out to be James Hird or Jimmy Bartel like some were saying after his first few games for the club. I simply see him being a very good player for the club for a decade, but not a superstar or quite elite.
I personally have Wellingham on top, though pretty much neck and neck with Beams, with a decent drop to Sidebottom.
Reasons being Wellingham is by far the superior athlete of the three, and is pretty much good to very good in just about every skill, kicking, tackling, one touch, composure under pressure (think he's the closest in the team to Pendles in this area), pace, even toughness, though his third and fourth efforts could use some work. Even his overhead marking and leap, it hasn't been so much on display in recent games, but anyone that saw his first few games for the club, he was basically played on a forward pocket/wing and took some excellent contested marks, with a big spring, in fact it was the major thing that stood out to me even over his speed.
His concentration levels have improved leaps and bounds, he stays in games, the only two things he actually needs to work on are decision making and those third and fourth efforts, everything else is pretty good.
I know people have gone off Daniel Kerr due to current form and also a few other issues, but Daniel Kerr on form is IMO a phenomenal player. Wellingham to me seems like a Daniel Kerr lite, but hopefully without the off field and anger issues.
Beams was basically Joel Selwood against the Bombers. Under packs extracting and dishing off, delivering pin point into the forward 50, left and right foot. I think a lot of his game is pretty similar and he could end up being close to as good a player.
Sidebottom has an excellent footy brain, and is also quite composed and is a player that always seems to make the right decision with the footy. I just don't know whether he is going to be the player Collingwood fans expect him to be in this day and age. He almost certainly would have been a superstar of the comp back in the 70's and 80's, and perhaps even 90's. But today I don't know if he has the physical tools to be that good. He is a solid kick on both feet, but to me lacks both the depth and penetration that Beams and Wellingham are able to generate. I don't think I've ever seen him kick over 40 metres. People who say he will simply develop a big kick with added strength, that is rubbish. He's slow and doesn't have quite Pendlebury's supreme level of awareness to where he can simply lope through 3 players as though they aren't there take a few bounces and dish off, which is what makes Pendlebury such a good outside player despite having no real foot speed.
At the moment he reminds me of Tarkyn Lockyer, with a little bit of Shane O'Bree. O'Bree only in terms of reading the play and drop of the ball and not skill wise. Most will probably say he has much better foot skills than Lockyer, but I haven't seen it. He's accurate by foot, both feet in fact, but so is Lockyer. They both seem to have similar depth on their kicking, which is around 40-45 metres. I'm going with that purely from what I've seen of him for Collingwood, not anything else, like TAC Cup. Sidebottom does have superior awareness to both and is a better decision maker. Basically I see Sidebottom having a similar career, I expect him to be better than both Lockyer and O'Bree but not by a huge margin. Would be happy to be proven wrong. Would especially be happy to be proven wrong if he turns out to be James Hird or Jimmy Bartel like some were saying after his first few games for the club. I simply see him being a very good player for the club for a decade, but not a superstar or quite elite.
