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

[The Adelaide Connection]

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

Hopefully could be out tomorrow.

I just can’t believe he actually sat in there for two weeks. Can you imagine this happening to a player with a higher profile?

[GVGjr]

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

I just can’t believe he actually sat in there for two weeks. Can you imagine this happening to a player with a higher profile?

It's certainly out of sync with what I think would have been a reasonable outcome.

[Rocket Science]

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

I just can’t believe he actually sat in there for two weeks. Can you imagine this happening to a player with a lighter complexion?

Fixed.

It's confounding neither club nor league have been more vocal or active in their advocacy while a young, black player sits in a cell for something industry peers have had handled with fines and if they're truly unlucky, suspensions.

It's shameful.

[The Adelaide Connection]

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

Fixed.

It's confounding neither club nor league have been more vocal or active in their advocacy while a young, black player sits in a cell for something industry peers have had handled with fines and if they're truly unlucky, suspensions.

It's shameful.

I have this vision of the AFL and Richmond putting it in the “too hard/better things to do” basket over their Christmas breaks. I just can’t understand how else he wasn’t out in a day (or that he even went in at all).

[mjp]

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

I have this vision of the AFL and Richmond putting it in the “too hard/better things to do” basket over their Christmas breaks. I just can’t understand how else he wasn’t out in a day (or that he even went in at all).

OK.
Can I just say the situation is a bit more complicated than that and both Richmond and the PA have been left without much of a leg to stand on? I can't/don't want to go into depth on why this is the case but I am confident that both parties already mentioned and Syd's own manager would have been shouting from the rooftops if they could...

[BornInDroopSt'54]

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

So the AFL put the mute on its subsidiaries?
Disgrace if so.

[Bornadog]

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

Richmond's Stack granted bail, to be released from prison