Evidence really !!
3rd year at the club and considerably last 'Again'
Nobody doubting his talent but work ethic away from the club , I suppose ill wait until we see Stack trailing big Nank by 3 laps before i comment about his fitness again.
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Training For Redemption in 2022
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3rd year at the club and considerably last 'Again'
Nobody doubting his talent but work ethic away from the club , I suppose ill wait until we see Stack trailing big Nank by 3 laps before i comment about his fitness again.
Some players just dont get that definition unfortunately and its really not that important , Clayton Oliver is a great example
The penny may have finally dropped.... with selection committee.
There's pics of Baker with Teague. Baker fwd?
Many cheers for the reporting again, the Q re: Stack is how does he compare to other yrs? I don't expect him to be super fit in 1 pre season but improvement is key going fwd. As u said in the report running may just not be his go yet bring the Footy's out & he'll dominate. have heard the same re: Dusty in yrs gone by
We could have just used one from Coleman Jones before we shipped him off
Total BS. Considerably last in the 5th run. 4th run not great. First 3 right up there. They were 120 meter shuttle runs in sets of 3. It was intense stuff. So his 15th effort wasn't too great.
5 mins later, MRJ can't run and Stacky is still going strong so he paced himself to a degree.
own program I think, remember it was only 1-4's that had to be back
A quote attributable to Cotch last year when he was doing clearance drills at training against Riley was that he couldn't believe how strong he was and couldn't move him off the ball. Strength not an issue IMO.
Nice to hear. And the Clayton Oliver comparison might be a good one.
It was a high pressure running session no doubt so that was what we had to report on and be honest in our opinion on results.
As I said Syd looked great with the cut of his jib but HK has rated his running efforts higher than myself.
Junior not a high bar to compare as he was a reasonable way 2nd last.
*Note: It was where I expected them to place but hoping they where a bit closer to the pack that's all.
First session back so no drama.
Still plenty to look forward to.
So not exactly a sign that Stack is lazy then! Or unfit.
Could it be that he’s simply a poor endurance runner? Like a lot of the indigenous boys?
Unfortunately some on here misinterpret your reporting and next thing you read is that the player has spent the last 8 weeks eating KFC on the couch.
Stacky will probably feature in the bottom quarter of running drills for the rest of his career.
To go along with his half a dozen AA blazers
Agree on this, and I have formed no negative opinion on what Syd has done in the off-season, I have said he looked ripped.
That is different to last year and I won't revisit those negatives.
I mentioned at the end of the session yesterday Syd was 3rd last off the track putting in some extra run-throughs.
To further my case in point, they must have had another smaller training session this morning, as I went past PRO other players were all heading in except for Syd, MRJ & Cumberland.
Up on the Scoreboard was the drill: "INDIVIDUAL NEEDS"
As I crossed the road Syd was initially running laps on his own, had a pause and was then joined by MRJ & Cumberland for further laps. At one point Peter Burge paced Stacky and then turned his attention to MRJ.
I reckoned I counted 7 or 8 laps for Syd all up.
So yes people should stop viewing my comments on Syd & MRJ's running results as being overly negative but an area that the Club, myself and the boys themselves know they have to work on and early doors that is what I am seeing.
The Sydney Stack I would like to see is the one that had 22 possessions to half time playing inside mid out at Windy Hill before doing his ankle, but that was a couple of years ago, (That's the pipedream anyway).
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Thanks for the insight. Super important player for us if he gets it right.
Caesar, definitely not having a go at you. And yes I'm an optimist. I went and watched the shuttle runs from next to the entrance to the Tiger Den and watched Broady, Hugo, RCD and Stacky closely. It appeared that MRJ pushed himself through all 5 sets. (The cramps 5 mins later support that.) Stackman cruised sets 4 and 5 but then looked good in the very next drill with ball in hand. Maybe he just paced himself knowing it was a 2.5 hour session. And then did some catch up work.
But will agree. He looked fit and trim.
Kane however looked ripped.
