Player Watch #44 Sydney Stack

[Rich o man]

Stack hurt Viney's feelings so much he almost needed surgery!

I liked this but on reflection I need an evaluation on ALMOST needed surgery.

 

[PetterdHoisted]

now we've done media hype week, I hope they shut it down big time at the club, ring fence the kid, too much too soon.

 

[tony__montana]

Being at the game the one thing I was struck by was stacks understanding of the game plan. Flossy, Dave, Grimesy and Broady didn’t really need to direct him at all.

He got stuck into melksham a couple times off the ball (which I loved) but his positioning 1-2 kicks off the play was veteran-like. This kid has a footy brain + skills and talent. Dead set gun.

Lol did he?
Best

 

[roacheee]

Thelonius Monk said....
'A genius is the man who is most like himself'

 

[Bazzar]

now we've done media hype week, I hope they shut it down big time at the club, ring fence the kid, too much too soon.

Going to be tough because he's the talk of the town how he escaped the draft. Took a while for all the Higgins media hype to settle last year and I suspect Syd will be no different this year.

 

[GoTigers2015]

 

[Rocco sifreddi]

now we've done media hype week, I hope they shut it down big time at the club, ring fence the kid, too much too soon.

Lucky for us we've got heaps of leaders at the club
On the field and off , we have the best example of a professional in our great captain trent cotchin ive
Got faith they will keep stacky grounded.

 

[Socrates2]

 

[Socrates2]

Don't mind this at all considering the character assassination he recieved in that article he's showing.

 

[GoTigers2015]

Don't mind this at all considering the character assassination he recieved in that article he's showing.

Stacky is box office with Channel 7, the producer had the camera on him when the game ended and also when Stacky was going around the boundary and being congratulated by the fans.

Plenty of good people at the club to get around him and help keep him grounded. You could see after the team song all the players go to him and congratulate him for his game.

 

[rowlingsdevsqd]

Too phunny


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[Grockadoc]

Thanks for sharing this post . I remember watching the National Draft and the commentary was all about when he would be drafted , and the surprise he wasn’t . Ever so thankful that the Tigers took a chance . So far so great !! Let’s hope he gets through his downtime unscathed, even then stiff sh$t.


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Remember sitting at home watching the draft and when our first pick rolled around 'Gimme RCD'. Was ecstatic when he got called out and then every pick after that I just kept thinking louder and louder 'Stack... Stack... STACK... GET STACK!'.

This kid will be an absolute star.

 

[BruceTempany14]

Remember sitting at home watching the draft and when our first pick rolled around 'Gimme RCD'. Was ecstatic when he got called out and then every pick after that I just kept thinking louder and louder 'Stack... Stack... STACK... GET STACK!'.

This kid will be an absolute star.

Yeah agree . I had a man crush on Daniel Rioli and Nick V but have decided to flick them in favour of Sydney Stack !!! He’s so exciting, has already made 2019 a year to remember.


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[tigerfan1961]

Yeah agree . I have a man crush on Daniel Rioli and Nick V but have decided to white myself out to Sydney Stack . He’s so exciting, has already made 2019 a year to remember.


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I agree with both of you but I just hope he's not getting too far ahead of himself. Up to the club to manage the hype but think he just needs to keep focussed and producing what he has so far.

 

[Grockadoc]

Yeah agree . I have a man crush on Daniel Rioli and Nick V but have decided to white myself out to Sydney Stack . He’s so exciting, has already made 2019 a year to remember.


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Been so happy with our drafting over the past few years.

Had huge wraps on Balta and Higgins in the 2017 draft too and was stoked when we landed both. Balta in particular was my favourite. 2 years in a row my personal favourite players in the draft (Balta and RCD have been taken by us and ny 2nd favourites as well in Higgins and Stack.)

We are getting so good now at being able to identify bargain picks and banking on our development system and taking risks. A sign we have come a long way from playing the 'safe pick' strategy.

 

[Grockadoc]

I agree with both of you but I just hope he's not getting too far ahead of himself. Up to the club to manage the hype but think he just needs to keep focussed and producing what he has so far.

From what I have heard about Sydney from friends in WA with connections to the WAFL and the Perth Demons, Stack will have no trouble focusing. His desire was to play AFL as it was the one positive thing in his life he had where people couldn't tell him he wasn't good enough to do it. He is so dedicated to football, especially so now that clubs overlooked him. It spurned him a little and dented his pride, so from all reports he has a fire in his belly and is keen to prove every other club wrong.

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Stack and myself are ******* lovely campaigners, must be something in the date

I,m guessing the date is where it ends.

 

[THE_GUN]

Make sure to with the boy happy birthday tomorrow

Sydney Stack turns 19

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

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.”

Oppo Recruiter must have been the lolnorff bloke.
“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.

 

[THE_GUN]

Oppo Recruiter must have been the lolnorff bloke.
“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.

So Collingwood couldnt afford him

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

I've done that! Left a boring job when i was young, now look at me...a fine key board warrior!

Your JAKLAUGHING all the way to the bank.

 

[THE_GUN]

I will be closely following the comparisons of 4 players in the future

Tarryn Thomas - pick #8 Norff Melbourne
Isaac Quaynor - pick # 12 Scumwood football club
Jordan Clark - pick #15 Geelol handbag factory

Sydney Stack - Pick free to the Mighty Tigers

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Shouldn’t be able to make anonymous off handed comments like that and smear shit against someone’s character... then they go a step further and actually publish it.

If you want to be a bigoted fwit at least put your name to it, own your comments.

It’s easy to treat people like walking meat bags when you don’t have to own up to your words.

From a selfish Richmond supporter pov.I hope that recruiters name is never revealed.

 

[DoItForCaptBlood]

From what I have heard about Sydney from friends in WA with connections to the WAFL and the Perth Demons, Stack will have no trouble focusing. His desire was to play AFL as it was the one positive thing in his life he had where people couldn't tell him he wasn't good enough to do it. He is so dedicated to football, especially so now that clubs overlooked him. It spurned him a little and dented his pride, so from all reports he has a fire in his belly and is keen to prove every other club wrong.

Now we are getting a better understanding of his personality, with his confidence in himelf, I wonder if he was a bit too laid back about the draft just expecting it to happen with what he he achieved at u18 level. Then not getting drafted at all, he was WTF!!

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

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

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