Speculation Elijah Tsatas [OOC 2026]

[Mofra]

The high draft pick who is struggling at their current club has to be the biggest trade trap in the game.

Hit or miss - Jack Scrimshaw at the hawks suggests if you get it right it's a bargain.
I'd argue Essendon are well in front with Peter Wright too.

Then again, there is Toumpas /Trengove etc

 

[Chief Hopper]

For the Essendon fans, why hasn't he kicked on as yet?

He lacks size to be a inner ball winning midfielder.
He gets pushed around off the ball. Doesn't tackle effectively or enough.
Played on the wing, isn't fast enough, can't kick accurate. It isn't his preferred position though.

All of these things point towards how young the guy is, both physically and skill wise. We aren't in a rush to put him in the side. Let him develop in the 2s. If all we get is 2-3rd rounder for him, pointless to trade him out.

Simply we aren't North or WestCoast right now bleeding young players, season after season losing most games.

 

[Milanista28]

It was a genuine question. Jeez some people are touchy.

Cheers. Appreciate the response.

 

[Mofra]

He lacks size to be a inner ball winning midfielder.
He gets pushed around off the ball. Doesn't tackle effectively or enough.
Played on the wing, isn't fast enough, can't kick accurate. It isn't his preferred position though.

All of these things point towards how young the guy is, both physically and skill wise. We aren't in a rush to put him in the side. Let him develop in the 2s. If all we get is 2-3rd rounder for him, pointless to trade him out.

Simply we aren't North or WestCoast right now bleeding young players, season after season losing most games.

Potential late bloomer?
IIRC Parish took a few years to find his feet and now he's an absolute ball magnet

 

[Wild Bill]

He lacks size to be a inner ball winning midfielder.
He gets pushed around off the ball. Doesn't tackle effectively or enough.
Played on the wing, isn't fast enough, can't kick accurate. It isn't his preferred position though.

All of these things point towards how young the guy is, both physically and skill wise. We aren't in a rush to put him in the side. Let him develop in the 2s. If all we get is 2-3rd rounder for him, pointless to trade him out.

Simply we aren't North or WestCoast right now bleeding young players, season after season losing most games.

Can you name the young players WCE and North are bleeding? The only young player we lost was JHF.

 

[Rich01]

There still seems to be no basis to this story.
Media seem frothing to create content at the moment.

 

[Chief Hopper]

Can you name the young players WCE and North are bleeding? The only young player we lost was JHF.

I didn't use the word bleeding right. Mean blooding young players, getting game time exp in.
Didn't mean losing players.

 

[Wild Bill]

There still seems to be no basis to this story.
Media seem frothing to create content at the moment.

Young player - high draft pick - playing VFL = leaving.

Slow news day - they need to get the clicks up.

 

[blueboy25]

I think he will be alright in time. He's a shocking kick now but so was Jobe Watson. Jobe never became a surgeon with his footskills but he at least went from a liability ball in hand to reliable.

Does Tsatas have the hunger to do the same?

 

[Ambrosia]

It was a genuine question. Jeez some people are touchy.

Cheers. Appreciate the response.

I thought you were making a pun about his poor ball use

 

[Red Bull]

For the Essendon fans, why hasn't he kicked on as yet?

 

[Wild Bill]

I thought you were making a pun about his poor ball use

I think he was and I am tipping he will use it again in his bottom 50 at years end.....

 

[Ambrosia]

I think he was and I am tipping he will use it again in his bottom 50 at years end.....

Been a few years since I've read the bottom 50 but doesn't it generally avoid young players and those that played less than 10 games.

 

[Tjblues]

Going too early on this kid either way.

Signs aren’t great, but he deserves a clean run at it before people start stamping his papers.

He’s not worth what Essendon would want for him to leave so a trade would be nearly impossible to manufacture

 

[Wild Bill]

Been a few years since I've read the bottom 50 but doesn't it generally avoid young players and those that played less than 10 games.

20 games - but will make an exception if it is warranted.

 

[Bianconeri]

Potential late bloomer?
IIRC Parish took a few years to find his feet and now he's an absolute ball magnet

Parish was best 22 in his first season though.

 

[Ambrosia]

Parish was best 22 in his first season though.

Parish can kick to an AFL standard so could be played in roles outside of the midfield

 

[Yoda_]

Young player - high draft pick - playing VFL = leaving.

Slow news day - they need to get the clicks up.

The amateur website Zero Hangar made a suggestion that Tsatas should be on Richmond’s wish list.
Jay Clarke has got wind of it as his own followers lap it up and now we are here

Was genuinely a nothing article previously reprised by Cal Twomey with a throw away line in a Gettable podcast few weeks back



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[Mofra]

Parish was best 22 in his first season though.

Wasn't 2016 an 'outlier' of a year though? May not have played 20 games in a regular team/year under normal conditions.

IIRC Parish spent a few years playing 'ok' then exploded in 2021 (?). Sometimes players just 'click'. Just trying to work out if that will happen with Tsatas

 

[eth-dog]

Wasn't 2016 an 'outlier' of a year though? May not have played 20 games in a regular team/year under normal conditions.

IIRC Parish spent a few years playing 'ok' then exploded in 2021 (?). Sometimes players just 'click'. Just trying to work out if that will happen with Tsatas

Probably would have played over half the games.

 

[perplexed]

The high draft pick who is struggling at their current club has to be the biggest trade trap in the game.

Disagree. We have had heaps of these types flourish at North.

Paul Ahern
Aidan Bonar
Jared Polec
Jaidyn Stephenson
Nathan Hrovat
Jordan Gysberts

Need I go on?

 

[tombomb]

Disagree. We have had heaps of these types flourish at North.

Paul Ahern
Aidan Bonar
Jared Polec
Jaidyn Stephenson
Nathan Hrovat
Jordan Gysberts

Need I go on?

Dylan Stephens

 

[Opium]

If we can get a good first for either Parish or Tsatas I'd do it maybe even throw Hobbs in that as well.

Is that you dodo

 

[The Prosecutor]

Not sure what all the doom and gloom in here is about.

He's 19 with a frame he will grow into over the next couple years that will allow him to play his best position (on ball) rather than the wing where we have forced him to play in the seniors in order to get some AFL exposure.

His last 5 weeks at VFL level as an inside mid.

31 Disposals, 6 Clearances
32 Disposals, 7 Clearances
34 Disposals, 14 Clearances
31 Disposals, 10 Clearances
38 Disposals, 11 Clearances

 

[Wild Bill]

Not sure what all the doom and gloom in here is about.

He's 19 with a frame he will grow into over the next couple years that will allow him to play his best position (on ball) rather than the wing where we have forced him to play in the seniors in order to get some AFL exposure.

His last 5 weeks at VFL level as an inside mid.

31 Disposals, 6 Clearances
32 Disposals, 7 Clearances
34 Disposals, 14 Clearances
31 Disposals, 10 Clearances
38 Disposals, 11 Clearances

It’s his kicking where the doom and gloom is. Any player getting those numbers will play AFL - unless you can’t kick.