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Player Watch #44 Sydney Stack

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http://m.afl.com.au/news/2018-12-01/six-spots-left-wholl-get-the-last-afl-lifelines-for-2019

OPPORTUNITY still beckons for those players who didn't join an AFL club last week.

The grieving process for that group had already begun at this time last year, but the new pre-season supplemental selection period (SSP), which opened on Saturday, has changed all that.

Six clubs – Greater Western Sydney, Melbourne, Carlton, Western Bulldogs, Richmond and Gold Coast – have one list spot vacant, which will almost certainly be filled in the SSP.

So how do the new rules work?

Previously listed AFL footballers no longer have to nominate for the draft and can sign with their club of choice as a Category A rookie between December 1 and March 15.

The only exceptions are those players who retire or delist themselves.

In those cases, they must nominate for that year's draft and be overlooked – or sit out an AFL season – to be eligible for the SSP.

The same goes for players who have never played at the highest level, but nominated for that year's draft and didn't find an AFL home.

They, too, become eligible for the following SSP, although if they still miss out they must nominate for the draft again the next year.

The Giants, Demons and Tigers passed twice in the rookie draft, effectively leaving two spots up for grabs.

However, all three had each committed one of those to past AFL footballers who would sign in the SSP: Shane Mumford (GWS), Corey Wagner (Melbourne) and Maverick Weller (Richmond).

The other players who have taken up the opportunity to join a club this way are Zac Clarke (Essendon), Keegan Brooksby (West Coast) and Tom Campbell(North Melbourne).

Former Kangaroo Corey Wagner will join Melbourne after impressing with the Casey Demons. Picture: AFL Photos

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The Tigers also sought permission for West Australian midfielder Sydney Stack, an All Australian at this year's NAB AFL Under-18 Championships, to train at Punt Rd and potentially take the club's other spot.

A ruckman is in the Suns' sights for their empty place as they seek more support for No.1 big man Jarrod Witts.

Injury-prone Tom Nicholls and Peter Wright, who is preferred as a key forward, are Witts' main back-ups at this stage.

The Blues' decision may be a race in four.

Axed forward Jed Lamb and VFL trio Jesse Palmer and Sam Fisher, who were previously listed at Port Adelaide and Sydney, respectively, and Mason Blakey trained with Carlton leading into the drafts.

Former Saint Hugh Goddard and ex-Demon Tom Bugg became Blues in last week's rookie draft after training at Ikon Park.

That leaves the Giants, Demons and Bulldogs with one vacancy apiece.

Among the players in the mix could be multiple state league medallists Mick Gibbons, Mitch Grigg and Jye Bolton, Casey Demon Jay Lockhart, key-position prospect Hayden McLean, who trained at St Kilda, and late-blooming South Fremantle onballer Marlion Pickett.

There is also a chance clubs will keep a spot up their sleeve for next year's mid-season rookie draft, but industry sources say it is unlikely any team would enter the season one player short.
 
THE_GUN said:
Knightmare rated him top 20 pick in this years draft & Loves RCD

2017: Higgins , Balta , Naish , Coleman - Jones
2018: Lynch , RCD , Stack , Ross

A bit of young talent coming into the club last 2 years
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Might mean the rumor in regards too Hopper might end up being just that.
Can't see us having 5 bulls on the list.(Dusty,Graham,Hopper,RCD & Ross).
 
Shazza_ said:
have it on good authority been on coles goon all day that i texted stack he knocked back our my proposal too marry and will instead stay in wa and try to get drafted in the 2019 draft
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ryza87 said:
No one knocks back an opportunity to play AFL, to just try there luck again in the following draft. What a crock of shit lol! I mean how dumb could you be. 18 teams pass on you in the national draft and then the rookie draft and then you knock back an offer for a rookie spot?

And whos to say if he nominates for next years draft and we pick him then hahahahaha! What has he gained?
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Ignore Shazza (either don't pay him any attention, or literally put him on your ignore list), he's full of sh!t
 

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TJTIGER said:
:eek:..........:think:........does that mean it's groupie's , I mean shazza's fault if Sydney doesn't come to RFC?
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I think the AFL has a clause in the standard player contract that any player who associates with Groupie/shazza will be immediately delisted. Richmond had it inserted as a trade, but club officials insisted that 5 years of being the umpires bitches was worth it, although reportedly other club officials agreed so wholeheartedly that even that low price has been cut back.

Even Chief only lets it keep an account because he has a profound hatred for all things Richmond.

Block, of if not, report all that the troll does, and just hope that one day the mods get as sick of the pathetic loser as the rest of us.
 
TJTIGER said:
:eek:..........:think:........does that mean it's groupie's , I mean shazza's fault if Sydney doesn't come to RFC?
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Was his fault we lost the prelim.Gave Astbury the shits.:poo:
 
telsor said:
Maybe so, but they still don't qualify as a "big inside bull".
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I was surprised to read he was so short. Regardless, he moves well on the footy field and looks like a midfielder. (of course this is against 18 year olds) I hope he thrives.
 

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