Brennan Stack to Debut tonight

[Missing Dog]

Re: Brennan Stack to Debut tonight

Didn't see a minute of it.

Didn't miss much

[Mofra]

Re: Brennan Stack to Debut tonight

Personally I think Eade believes Stack will be a player and wanted to give him a taste in a game where his performance would have little impact on the end result even though he probably isn't ready yet.

That was what I was alluding to earlier, however if a player isn't training well nor committed to the recovery sessions I doubt he'd get a debut when his VFL form isn't great either.

[alwaysadog]

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Perhaps I have gone too hard on him but my intention was to repond to earlier posts rather than to attack Stack.
Preferred treatment? Absolutely not.
I have no problem with this strategy, but you can't expect a kid who is only doing so-so in the VFL to step up to the plate in the AFL. It's simply not a realistic expectation.

Thanks SS your whole post makes sense and covers all the matters that I thought you left hanging in your earlier post. I only edited here to save space.

[Mantis]

Re: Brennan Stack to Debut tonight

* While playing forward I don't remember him leading at the ball carrier a single time.

Compare his first game to that of Tim Walsh. Walsh finished with 3 touches, 3 marks and a goal. All of Walsh's marks were presenting at the ball carrier and while his output wasn't much I was actually more encouraged by his first outing than Stack's.

Considering Brennan has played most of this year across HB do you think it was a mistake to start him off in the forwardline? Personally it would have been nice to ease him into the game playing in a role he has played reasonably well in this year.

I appreciate it was Brennan's his first game but you are either playing AFL or you are not. His contribution counts as much on the scoreboard as anyone else's and we don't get a 2 goal start because we're playing a first gamer. That performance would have been considered completely unacceptable from any other player in the side.

But all that depends on what your expectations of him were before the game started. I don't think anyone expected Brennan to come out and blitz in his first game.

[Cyberdoggie]

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Watching Brennan in the vfl i certainly didn't think he would have a good debut.
He had an awful debut in the Williamstown seniors against Port Melbourne. If you look up "butter fingers" in the dictionary it now refers to Brennan in that game.

Brennan seems to be the type of player that needs to settle. Perhaps he's particularly nervous, but he requires several games to fit in.

I think it would be a mistake to drop hiim after 1 game. He should play against Port in Darwin (a ground where he played a good game for the Allstars earlier in the year!)
and then he should be given a spell at the break to resume at Willy.

If we drop him now he will learn nothing, and he possibly may not be given another chance.

[The Coon Dog]

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If we drop him now he will learn nothing, and he possibly may not be given another chance.

If you retain him this week & Murphy is fit, who makes way then?

[Missing Dog]

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If you retain him this week & Murphy is fit, who makes way then?

Tiller

[Mofra]

Re: Brennan Stack to Debut tonight

Tiller

Who'd play on Westoff?

[Desipura]

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Murphy in line for Dogs' Power clash


According to this article Fantasia seems to think Stack did enough to get a game this week.

[Sockeye Salmon]

Re: Brennan Stack to Debut tonight

Murphy in line for Dogs' Power clash


According to this article Fantasia seems to think Stack did enough to get a game this week.

You didn't really expect Fantasia to come out and say how bad he was, did you?

[Bornadog]

Re: Brennan Stack to Debut tonight

If you retain him this week & Murphy is fit, who makes way then?

Gilbee, needs to rest his bruised foot

[G-Mo77]

Re: Brennan Stack to Debut tonight

Murphy in line for Dogs' Power clash


According to this article Fantasia seems to think Stack did enough to get a game this week.

He also said this.

"In saying that, we've still got to pick a side this week that can beat Port Adelaide, who are coming off a good win ... [Stack’s] done enough to keep his spot; it's just a matter of who he's up against."

I'd like to keep Stack in for another week because he just looked so nervous in his first game and shouldn't be as nervous on Saturday night but it looks to me that Murphy will be in Stack will be out which will probably be the only change.

[Bornadog]

Re: Brennan Stack to Debut tonight

* While playing forward I don't remember him leading at the ball carrier a single time.

I noticed several times he was on his own and yelling for the pass. So if he played the same game but kicked say two goals, you would change your opinion?

[Mantis]

Re: Brennan Stack to Debut tonight

I noticed several times he was on his own and yelling for the pass. So if he played the same game but kicked say two goals, you would change your opinion?

Sounds a little bit like Jarrod Grant's debut game.

[Topdog]

Re: Brennan Stack to Debut tonight

Murphy for Stack.
Welsh for Tiller??