Player Watch #15: Dylan Stephens

[speedy]

Swans have offered him a contract? They still want him? There goes our pick 19 in 2024.

 

[Hearts to hearts]

Whoops, not sure why, but I thought Powell was pick 10.

Either way we can essentially field a third of our list with top 5 picks and that doesn't include Larkey...

That highlights why I hate these lists. Some top draft picks go on to the heights they promised, a lot don’t - some late picks are fantastic players and most aren’t - and it is meaningless to go up to six years post draft and use pick numbers to say anything about the quality of a club’s list. We will have top draft picks who needed a fresh start to establish or reestablish a senior career, and a very late pick among our most valuable players. Listing the guys on the list taken with top picks feeds the mistaken view that we have so much quality we don’t need any assistance, when a lot of them are brought in on second chances because they didn’t live up to the billing at their first club. It’s worth us giving them a go but “top 5” or “top 10” or “first round” is not their value at the time we get them and not what we expect from them - at best we hope they will be role players, not stars, and they may not even reach that (Bonar, Ahern, Tyson…).

 

[Friday Night Lights]

Jaidylan Stephenson.

 

[King Corey]

Jaidylan Stephenson.

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A whipping boy inside a whipping boy.

Edit: I didn't mean it like that

 

[roos_fanatic08]

OOC. In and out of the senior side. Ultimately he is a fringe player with some potential upside.

If we give up anything inside the top 35 we are absolutely taking the piss. Future 3rd or we take him in the PSD.

 

[Roo096]

It always makes me nervous with deals like this we have a history of paying way over the top.Please Brady no more than a 3rd rounder!

 

[Del191229]

Don't bite my head off, but I have this guy's ceiling as higher than Bailey Scott's (in a similar role). Question is can he reach his ceiling.

If he's got Bailey's work ethic he will reach his ceiling.

Top end is we just got the next Isaac Smith.

Or maybe we got another Liam Shiels - ultra dilligent hard runner who can lock a player down.

Another Baily Scott is fine by me too.

 

[HELLSBELLS]

Cant expect to trading in brownlow medalists.

Kid can play and on bigger grounds will come along fine.

 

[Del191229]

Cant expect to trading in brownlow medalists.

Kid can play and on bigger grounds will come along fine.

Clarko literally traded in a mid from Sydney who won him a Brownlow, just a few years ago.

But aye, Dylan isn't that player.

 

[Makeshift Park]

If he's got Bailey's work ethic he will reach his ceiling.

Top end is we just got the next Isaac Smith.

Or maybe we got another Liam Shiels - ultra dilligent hard runner who can lock a player down.

Another Baily Scott is fine by me too.

Yep. I think we can expect him to become a very serviceable player at the least.

We don't want another year characterised by fourth quarter burnouts, and getting a few players with DS's tank with help heaps on that front.

He was just struggling to get a consistent crack at it when he was sharing the wing with an All-Australian in Gulden, as well as Campbell and McInerney.

Gulden's currently performing at a standard above the other three, but Stephens' key stats really are comparable to the other two, possibly even favourably once you consider the lack of ToG and selection consistency he was getting.

I can see this becoming a really good value acquisition for us.

 

[Samsquanch]

My opinion...

Some people think he will go OK but others don't.

 

[koshari]

Swans have offered him a contract? They still want him? There goes our pick 19 in 2024.

no way we trade pick 19 for a fringe player, we did that with CCj and look how that ended.

 

[koshari]

Clarko literally traded in a mid from Sydney who won him a Brownlow, just a few years ago.

But aye, Dylan isn't that player.

ppppffft, we traded in longmire and carey! cant think we will ever pull the wood over the swans eyes like that again,

 

[Del191229]

no way we trade pick 19 for a fringe player, we did that with CCj and look how that ended.

Wasn't aware we'd delisted CCJ

 

[Ischenko]

Our pick in the 50s should do it no? OOC, nominated us. Or we have 39. But rather use that and throw them a future 3rd. He’s not worth much atm. And we have all the leverage.

 

[ferball]

Dylan Stephens = The Bob Cat

Dylan Stevens = The Goldthwait
= The one too many mornings have broken

If only Dylan had a song with the words "my pants" in the title hey.

 

[ferball]

Also Dylan Stevens = The Wallace Thomas aka Do not go gentle into that ice cream.

 

[Samsquanch]

no way we trade pick 19 for a fringe player, we did that with CCj and look how that ended.

Wasn't aware we'd delisted CCJ

From now on we will refer to koshari as The Nostradamus.

 

[Heaps of fun]

Future whipping boy.

 

[J_Moore]

Sydney are pretty switched on with the drafting/trading bit, they wouldn't be allowing him to explore other options if they thought he was worth holding on to. We're in that period of adding more genuine talent to the list, not other teams also-rans, something we seem to have made a habit of. I'd be fleeting in interest.

Since 2016 the club has lost Mitchell, Aliir, Hewett, Newman, and Dawson.

And brought in guys like Lewis Taylor, Dan Menzel, Sam Gray, Jackson Thurlow, and Kaiden Brand, who have lasted 1 contract.

Of the 23 guys who played against Carlton, only Hickey had come from another club, and now he’s gone.

I think any reputation as particularly astute traders is a hangover from 15 years ago.

(Convincing the Saints to take Hannebery off their hands was pretty good, though)

I think Stephens will be a fairly useful player for you, if he can just somehow get that dog in him.

 

[Caj]

Honest appraisal

Disappointed with what he’s shown to date, we absolutely blew that too 5 pick. If he was drafted at 50 he’d probably be close to a straight delist

His main skill set is his endurance which enables him to get up and down the ground all day

His cons are that his disposal is average at best and he’s a little timid in the contest

Most supporters aren’t that disappointed about losing him which says something

Maybe Clarko can turn him around

 

[Whereitallbegan]

Yeah, my worry is that we're going to overpay for some low-mid range talent this offseason, when by nature of our ladder position our trade value per pick is high.

Over paying is our club mantra!

 

[sruss]

Honest appraisal

Disappointed with what he’s shown to date, we absolutely blew that too 5 pick. If he was drafted at 50 he’d probably be close to a straight delist

His main skill set is his endurance which enables him to get up and down the ground all day

His cons are that his disposal is average at best and he’s a little timid in the contest

Most supporters aren’t that disappointed about losing him which says something

Maybe Clarko can turn him around

Sounds like a left footed Ryan Clarke

 

[justroyal]

Was Sam Gibson

Sam Gibson

Age

39

Ht

185cm

Wt

82kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

22.2

5star

K

12.1

4star

HB

10.1

5star

M

5.3

5star

T

2.7

4star

CL

1.9

4star

No current season stats available

D

16.2

4star

K

10.2

4star

HB

6.0

4star

M

6.0

5star

T

2.0

4star

CL

0.8

3star

left footed? This guy just described Gibbo

 

[R00StaR]

Every north r) foot player.
When running up the right side of the field, they’re more likely to look up the line than inward.
When running up the left side of the field, they’re more likely to look far left out on the full than inward..

Its really the same for all clubs. Fact is its easier to find the 45s inboard on the right side of the ground as a lefty due to man on the mark. A right footer has get that extra meter or 2 further back which eats valuable seconds.
Its stands out like dogs balls in so many matches.