6. Elliot Yeo (2014 - )

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Personally think this guy has real potential to stamp his mark on this city. This could be the year!!
 

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Deserves another bump after playing in a premiership and going b2b at the JW medal.
As his sponsor, he has made me exceptionally proud.
 
Yeo has been criminally under represented round these parts. That ends now.

Let's take a look at the highlights from your back to back JW medallist:





The 2018 John Worsfold medallist was transitioned to the midfield by Adam Simpson and developed into one of the elite midfielders in the competition. Yeo’s versatility made him a dangerous prospect for opposition teams and his physicality was exactly what the Eagles needed in the engine room. Yeo was a tackling machine in 2018, but also used his ability to spread from contests to be a huge accumulator of metres gained, as well as link up with the Eagles’ forwards. Was stiff to miss All Australian selection and will look to solidify his status as one of the games’ prime movers in 2019.

Premiership play: That long bomb
The Grand Final was a slog for the club’s reigning best and fairest player. After a commanding performance against Collingwood in the qualifying final, Magpies senior coach Nathan Buckley sent his shutdown specialist Levi Greenwood to Yeo in a bid to quell his influence on the contest. Greenwood managed to keep Yeo in check for most of the day, but he could do nothing to stop him kicking one of the game’s most important majors in the third quarter. Yeo picked off an errant transition kick from Taylor Adams (albeit with the help of a Collingwood trainer, who blocked Jaidyn Stephenson’s path to the contest) and put the Eagles in the lead for the first time with a pure set shot from beyond the 50m arc.

Season averages:
Disposals: 24.6
Contested possessions: 12.4
Tackles: 6.7
Marks: 5.1
Clearances: 4.3
Inside 50s: 5.3

2018 AFL statistical rankings:
2nd: Total tackles, total metres gained
5th: Total kicks
4th: Inside 50s, tackles per game
 
There were concerns about Yeo's ability to be fit for round 1 which have since been allayed by successful hit outs in the intraclub and JLT 1.

You can read those concerns here:

https://thewest.com.au/sport/west-c...nst-brisbane-due-to-toe-injury-ng-b881111212z

As well as listen to Yeo speak in Cervantes ahead of the intraclub and after JLT 1 here:

https://www.westcoasteagles.com.au/video/2019-02-19/yeo-press-conference-190219

https://www.westcoasteagles.com.au/news/2019-03-04/yeo-buoyed-by-preseason-performance

In positive news, he has ticked all the boxes in the JLT hit out and will be looking to add more minutes in JLT 2 before pressing for Round 1 of the season proper.
 
Elliot Yeo blew the dust off in Round one with 25 touches and a goal. His 5 clearances showed a bit, but in greasy, slippery conditions he was not polished with the footy, running at 44% DE and guilty of 11 turnovers.
 
Elliot was closely checked in Round two, so most of his work was completed on the inside. Pleasingly he had an equal game high 5 tackles to go with a game high 15 contested posessions (of a total 23) plus a team high 7 clearances. Unfortunately 7 frees against is a bit of an ugly stat and one he'd be looking to improve upon.

He also nailed an absolute beauty of a goal from the boundary to get me out of my seat!

 
Yeoy was quieter in R3 with 21 touches, albeit at a much improved DE of 86%. He had 8 CP and 5 score involvements, along with 4 clearances.

In R4 he had 30 possessions, almost half of which (14) were contested. 4 clearances and 8 i50s round out the interesting stats. Unfortunately, like most on the night, the conditions affected his disposal as he had 8 turnovers, running at 63% DE.
 
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