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Hopefully a consistent year playing as a forward pocket tall decoy alongside Schulz and neade playing at their feet
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I love Stewy but Ken is aiming for pace and PS can lack a little in that area.
Depth for us now and a handy player to have, he can play forward and back, a good utility.
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When he's fit he always seems to win a spot. Ill back the guy. Nice kick in general play and for goal. Can win his own ball and use it. One of our best utilities when he's fit.
I disagree.
Yeah WTF?!
Its like some of you guys think the team will stay in a vacuum where every player keeps their form from the 2013 finals series.
The guy was carrying injuries all 2013, a year where nearly every player was able to get involved more due too better spreading and ball-movement. People have already forgot somehow that he was one of the VERY FEW quality players we had in 2012 (I wanted him in defense and up forward).
If all players from the finals stay fit and in form Stewart will still get back in, and watch the Melborne game before he hurts his knee, he is not slow
I always said that we look better when Stewy is in the side and i hope he gets back in. Time will tell i suppose, no team goes injury free and if he plays well enough for the magies, he will force his way in.
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Now everyone in this thread can love stewy that lil bit more
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The emphasis is on P Stew to earn his place in the side back. I don't think he will start in the 22, and he'll need to be knocking down the door come injury or lack of form to other players.
Out of those who played in the Geelong final, I can only see Colquhoun, Logan Moore and Young being displaced. P Stew doesn't play small, so he wouldn't replace Colquhoun or Logan (I think we will see Impey come in for Colquhoun and Logan will be in the 22), and he would be behind Moore and Young in terms of being a midfield rotation (I see both Moore and Young starting in the 22).
Paul Stewart is a long way from my best 18 after last season.
I also feel his versatility's being greatly overrated in this thread. Apart from the occasional 5 minute cameo Stewart isn't really good enough to play back six or though the midfield. As a forward he's had a few stellar games, mostly against Melbourne, but they're the exception not the norm.
No doubt he'll play a fair bit of AFL football next year but at 27 he cant afford to be pigeon holed as depth option. Big year 2014 for Paul Stewart.
I also feel his versatility's being greatly overrated in this thread. Apart from the occasional 5 minute cameo Stewart isn't really good enough to play back six or though the midfield. As a forward he's had a few stellar games, mostly against Melbourne, but they're the exception not the norm.
No doubt he'll play a fair bit of AFL football next year but at 27 he cant afford to be pigeon holed as depth option. Big year 2014 for Paul Stewart.
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I agree with your post for the most part, but the bolded bit shows a bit of a short memory. P Stew has played some very good consistent footy in defence in the past whenever he's been given an extended chance there (the first month and a half or so of 2012, for example). I think he's been a victim of his versatility TBH. If we never played him anywhere but defence, he probably would have maintained his form and never would have lost his spot. The match-winner he kicked against Norf might have done more harm to his career than good.
I think that Stewart definitely has been, and can continue to be an ultra-consistent HBF for us. I think its good that it is in question....great depth and competitiveness around the club.
I'm with you that in the past Paul Stewart has played some solid football off half back but that was in a time when we were a very ordinary team. When I look at our current squad he's a fair way back in the medium defender depth chart.
Not to say he can't play well on a back flank, just that his only real chance of playing regular football at Port Adelaide is as a forward.
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Well the even numbered year has started and Stewart has started in good form. Was our only decent forward on Sunday and one of our best players over 4 quarters.
Stewart got a few BOGs in the SANFL on ball, we haven't tried him in the middle at AFL level yet.
I still like him as a running half back linking up with the midfield. There was talk in the other thread of who he'd squeeze out of the side, I'd say it'd be out of Pittard & O'Shea with Cam having a few more credits in the bank.
He's at that age in his career where if he stays fit & it all clicks he'd be a very handy player in the best 22, similar to Ricky Henderson for the Crows but hopefully better.
He's at that age in his career where if he stays fit & it all clicks he'd be a very handy player in the best 22, similar to Ricky Henderson for the Crows but hopefully better.
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Stewart is the epitome of 2nd tier. He's a solid role player who can slot in basically anywhere and do a job, without ever being the driving force behind winning a match. He'll never let us down though.
RussellEbertHandball
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Stewart leaves Pittard for dead if we are looking for run off the half back flank. And he doesn't * up as often as Pittard does.
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Basketball. Swingman = can play both guard and forward, often interchangeably from play-to-play.
In AFL parlance it is seeing increasing use as a basic term for a tall who is merely capable of playing back or forward on a given day (Paul Stewart, Nathan Bock, Luke McPharlin), rather than true 'swingmen' who switch ends freely and often as situations arise (Justin Westhoff, Chad Cornes, Adam Hunter).
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Pittard has always been better further up the ground although it's looking like Stewart will play predominately up forward going by his community camp comments.
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I like him as a third tall up forward. Ken showed reluctance to play 3 KPF's last season, and it hurt us often. Stewart leads and competes well.
His desperation when it comes to body on the line is second to none. I hope he can be one of those key players to cement his spot and own it.
