Player Watch #44 Sydney Stack

[Ancient Tiger]

Are clubs looking at recruiting gun footballers or are they interested in finding someone that can work out how to make General Relativity and Quantum theory both work together in all circumstances? Unbelievable.

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

The IQ thing is wrong on about three levels
1- IQ is flawed in general
2- IQ is irrelevant for an AFL footballer and many out there in the general public
3- I strongly doubt they have put Stack through an IQ test to confirm their suspicion

Should have tried instead...https://psychcentral.com/blog/phrenology-examining-the-bumps-of-your-brain/

 

[GoTigers2015]

Some more pre-draft info here:

https://thewest.com.au/sport/afl-dr...ace-in-footys-rough-and-tumble-ng-b881023654z

Wonder if Ian Hill will end up at Tiges one day. Team mate of Stacky and Luke English.

 

[Wacky Tiger]

Im not going to go around bragging how we outsmarted every club. At the end of the day we passed on him the same as they all did. What im more proud of is the system / culture we have developed at the club that allowed us to bring a troubled kid over from the other side of the country, for our coach to once again open up his family home to help him settle in. Its still early days but how good is it that our club can offer these options. Dimma Harwick take a bow son.

 

[Wacko23Jacko]

Also spot on. The article was written as a simple puff piece about how so many teams passed on him and how lucky and coincidental it is for Stack to get where he is. Edmunds seems completely unaware of the gravity of the statements he's publishing.

I'm sure there is a much greater story to be told involving the adversity he's had to over come, as well as the hard work he's put in to get to where he is. I hope the Herald Sun doesn't get to publish it.

A positive story about an Indigenous Australian would need to go through personal review from Rupert Murdoch before it’s allowed to be published in any of his “magazines”.

The first criteria for such articles is:

1. Does the story have enough negative drivel to our weight any positives surrounding the story?

If yes, publish.

If No, burn it, fire the journalist and take away accreditation.

 

[Rodney Dangerfield]

**** me.
What a shit article.

 

[tigs2010]

So he's an abusive father? The doubters were right!

So is SOS making his kids play for that shit stain club. Explains why they were interested lol

 

[tigs2010]

IQ is bullshit. That's why organisations now call IQ tests "aptitude tests" because that's all they measure - your aptitude to do them. A few examples demonstrate this. The first is the fact that the US has been conducting the same IQ tests on all its citizens now for 100 years or so and every generation is about 10 points "smarter" than their parents. An average student from the 1920s would be considered borderline intellectually disabled today. Why this is the case is not entirely certain, but what it clearly proves is that what is being tested is learned rather than innate ability. Another example is a cousin of mine whose Dad was an academic psychologist. When my cousin was about 4 he served as a guinea pig for a bunch of postgrads who were tasked with designing IQ tests for toddlers. He got so much practice that he ended up recording Einstein level results. Believe me, my cousin wasn't that smart. I myself experienced this when I was trying to get a job as a computer programmer in the late 1980s and had to do a lot of really seriously hard aptitude tests. I never got a gig as it turned out, but when I eventually sat the public service exam, I was so practiced I nearly topped the bloody thing. So an indigenous kid from the wrong side of the tracks is considered to have a low IQ, whoopy do! Tyrone Vickery was supposed to be near genius. Go figure.

Big TV was intellectually disabled in regards to footy IQ.

 

[Sir_Loin]

Are clubs looking at recruiting gun footballers or are they interested in finding someone that can work out how to make General Relativity and Quantum theory both work together in all circumstances? Unbelievable.

What do you mean by “work together”?

 

[Tenacious T]

Stacky ..........The NEW Dustin Martin.

 

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Stacky ..........The NEW Dustin Martin.

Martin wishes!

 

[Westicle]

apology for poor english

when were you when vinny dies?

i was sat at royal hotel eating bar smegma when dimma ring

"vinny is kill"

"no"

 

[muzhogg]

when was the sstack torp?

think i was taking a piss at the time

It was with 12:46 to play in the fourth quarter. Just a giant roost out of defense which managed to clear some Melbourne pressure. Was very nice!

Edit: already answered, but anyway...

 

[Barnzy]

Should’ve gone pick two

Pick 3* behind Jack Ross.

 

[Michaels]

 

[Thrasher97]

Shit insensitive article. Questioning his intelligence is ridiculous, he's a footballer!

I don't count myself as extremely smart, I'm pretty shit at maths and alright at English,
I work in I.T and understand how to fix computers and what common issues are. Some intelligent people are some of the worst people on computers, Every one has their strengths and weaknesses.

If you're good at something and can do it for a job Go for it.
Stack seems like a future star so he'll stick to that, it doesn't matter if he quit his job at a bank obviously not an interesting place to work...

 

[Ancient Tiger]

What do you mean by “work together”?

The problem is that they don't......

Without going into details look up the double slit experiment and problems explaining what occurs below the Planck Length let alone the disagreement at what happens beyond the event horizon.......

 

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Andy Maher and Gary Buckenara are going to discuss the topic on SEN this afternoon. I texted in about this article be interesting if it comes up.

 

[No_Spoke]

How Sydney Stack went from being ignored in two drafts last year to cult hero status in four games

Sam Edmund, Herald Sun​

an hour ago​

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The final straw for one club came when Sydney Stack failed to show up for work.
Stack had last year started a bank traineeship in Perth, but his sudden no-show was enough for this club’s recruiting team.

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“You’re just thinking, ‘Gee whiz mate, footy is a grind. You can’t just not turn up whenever you feel like it’,” the recruiting chief said.

“You obviously start asking: ‘How will he go meeting the requirements and punctuality at AFL level?”
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In a year in which Stack was turfed from the AFL Academy, kicked out of the WA State Academy, stood down for the first game of the under 18 championships and lost his licence, AFL clubs assessing his draft worth didn’t need Sherlock Holmes to discover his wayward nature.


Despite possessing an on-field talent many clubs rated as first-round worthy, they were outweighed by the off-field problems.
It goes some way to explaining the now inconceivable — how Richmond’s four-game, 18-year-old cult-hero could be ignored in last year’s national and rookie drafts.

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The Tigers themselves didn’t take him with any of their four national draft picks and then overlooked him with their five rookie draft picks before choosing the ‘try before you buy’ approach in the new supplemental selection period.

Rival recruiters contacted by the Herald Sun praised Richmond for taking the risk they were never going to.

“I still remember when he left our interview thinking, ‘S. t i’d love to take a punt on this kid’. You realised footy could change his life, but we didn’t have the foundations set up enough to support him off-field,” one talent spotter said.

“It’s not a cheap exercise relocating a kid and you’re trying to evaluate where will they live and who will they mix with. There’s a lot that goes into it.

“Full credit to Richmond … but keep in mind they’ve got 100,000 members so budget isn’t such a big deal. For other clubs you’re weighing up risk versus reward.

“You hope it does all hold together because if it’s not footy there is no future for this kid. He’s not going to become a builder or something like that because he lacks the discipline.”

Sydney Stack pulls down a huge hanger during Richmond's win over Melbourne. Picture: AAP Image/Julian Smith.

One club’s list manager said: “He’s at the lower end in terms of his IQ off-field, but there was never any doubting his IQ on-field.

“You have to be able to sit back and ask, ‘Does the talent stack up and is the off-field stuff going to affect the on-field?

“You then have to assess your own club. Have we got the resources to give this a chance?

“This is where Richmond have done really well. They’ve clearly put things in place to minimise that risk.”

Incredibly, Damien Hardwick took Stack under his roof in December and for a week in January. He now lives with former Saint and Lion and development coach Xavier Clarke.

“It was massive for ‘Dimma’ to take him in,” one recruiter said.

“Daniel Rioli was completely different. He’s got a good sense of humour and is quite cheeky, whereas Sydney was a bit of a hard-arse … and didn’t trust many people and you can’t blame him for that because that’s what he’d grown up with.”

One recruiter who had followed Stack’s journey said idle time had been the danger.
“He comes from a really tough background, but during the footy season he always had focus. When there was no footy was the big worry,” he said.

“But perhaps the only way he was going to make it was how Richmond did it.”

Good ol tall poppy tale.

 

[69vintage]

Andy Maher and Gary Buckenara are going to discuss the topic on SEN this afternoon. I texted in about this article be interesting if it comes up.

Any idea what time Rodney ?
Don't want to spend all day listening to national tiles adds .

On SM-A520F using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Any idea what time Rodney ?
Don't want to spend all day listening to national tiles adds .

On SM-A520F using BigFooty.com mobile app

Not sure but I think between 1 and 2.

 

[mad_tiggy911]

This article stings more than the booing of Pendles.

Shit journalism. Weak recruiters also making excuses and attack Syds character trying to deflect why they ****ed up.

 

[Rodney Dangerfield]

This article stings more than the booing of Pendles.

Shit journalism. Weak recruiters also making excuses and attack Syds character trying to deflect why they ****** up.

Pretty much what I texted into SEN. Said people carry on about booing well what about this?
Didn’t get a mention.

 

[THE_GUN]

But but but the Blues nearly stole him from us. Havent you heard Ralphy mention it around 100 times already

Hahahahahah Ralphy is a bloody good troll , By mentioning it 100 times he is putting the question into their minds to talk about - He's a bad man our Ralphy


Just on IQ Levels , As another poster before mentioned it Tyrone had a very high IQ as well as Will Minson and a few other who were not really great footballers.

The Great Maurice Rioli would never be drafted in todays football , Anybody who knows about the inner sanctum of the RFC could tell you stories about some of the stuff MR did that no club today would tolerate and society would not accept from a public person ( alot of things would also need to be answered to the law also)

SS Is looking like a great recruit and im hoping that he along with Rioli , Edwards , Bolton , Egg can create and have a bond together and support each other through their careers and become great footballers and great people

 

[Socrates2]

Not sure if this photo has been posted but it shows Stack's perfect bumping technique.