Player Watch #15: Dylan Stephens

[TheKanga]

Bit of Liam Anthony

Liam Anthony

Age

37

Ht

189cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

21.3

5star

K

11.3

4star

HB

10.0

5star

M

4.9

5star

T

2.9

4star

CL

1.9

4star

No current season stats available

D

22.8

5star

K

10.8

4star

HB

12.0

5star

M

5.0

5star

T

4.0

5star

about him

 

[sthmelb_dimmies]

4 year contract? * me.

Put me in charge of list management, this sort of s**t needs to stop! NOW!

yeah, honestly I felt bad for you blokes when i saw that. Swans got screwed first by wasting pick 5 on him, but to offload him for a first round to North felt like a get out of jail free. you didn't have to give him 4 years though.

 

[Flawed Genius]

ITT people misunderstanding what the role of a good winger is in a structure

The reason we can dick around through the corridor is because of old mate holding his width

 

[William Caresser]

Haven't watched him closely enough but his pass to Larkey I-50 instead of just bombing it showed composure.

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

He got the ball the same amount as Scott and more than Simpkin.

But Scott is often saving the ball in defense and running at top speed. Looking at stat sheets is not going to wise on this one.

 

[Chewy Chewman]

But that inside 50 to Larkey in the 2nd… I’d keep him over Lazzaro

 

[Lomas]

yeah, honestly I felt bad for you blokes when i saw that. Swans got screwed first by wasting pick 5 on him, but to offload him for a first round to North felt like a get out of jail free. you didn't have to give him 4 years though.

It wasn’t a first round pick in value though, so don’t feel too bad. Pick 25 came back our way.
Pick 25 then went to Carlton with pick 21 for pick 17 and Fisher.
Not that those numbers mean much, our much debated ‘end of first round’ pick actually ended up at pick 29! With father son, academy and WC concessions this year, and maybe a free agency, the pick you got will end up in a similar place.

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

Haven't watched him closely enough but his pass to Larkey I-50 instead of just bombing it showed composure.

He just needs to do it 10 more times in a match and it will be worth playing him in the 1s.

 

[LuvtheKangas]

ITT people misunderstanding what the role of a good winger is in a structure

The reason we can dick around through the corridor is because of old mate holding his width

He plays the wing role to a tee. Great runner, abides by structures.

My knock on him is that he's soft.

 

[The Dingrel]

Certainly showed more in the pre-season, perhaps when players weren't going in hard. On a small sample size, I'm thinking everyone's favourite whipping boy Curtis Taylor

5

Curtis Taylor

Age

24

Ht

188cm

Wt

82kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

6.0

1star

K

3.0

1star

HB

3.0

3star

M

1.5

2star

T

2.0

4star

CL

0.0

1star

No current season stats available

D

6.0

2star

K

3.0

1star

HB

3.0

3star

M

1.5

2star

T

2.0

4star

CL

0.0

1star

adds more value.

 

[bennymate]

Give him time to settle in, same goes with Fish.

 

[blisk]

Holds width, fairly neat with the ball and runs all day. He is the second best winger on our list… will play 20+ games this year

 

[Flawed Genius]

He plays the wing role to a tee. Great runner, abides by structures.

My knock on him is that he's soft.

I think to be a great winger, you HAVE to be soft.

 

[LuvtheKangas]

I think to be a great winger, you HAVE to be soft.

I suppose it's a trait of many of them, but not all. Going back a long way, but neither Schimma nor Greig were soft.

 

[My Left Foote]

Certainly showed more in the pre-season, perhaps when players weren't going in hard. On a small sample size, I'm thinking everyone's favourite whipping boy Curtis Taylor adds more value.

Curtis Taylor won't be on our list at the end of the year, he offers absolutely nothing.

 

[The acurate one]

yeah, honestly I felt bad for you blokes when i saw that. Swans got screwed first by wasting pick 5 on him, but to offload him for a first round to North felt like a get out of jail free. you didn't have to give him 4 years though.

That post is straight out of the Corns playbook
You gave us picked 25 in return for Stephens and we gave an end of first round so from memory around a 4/5 place upgrade.

 

[Makeshift Park]

I think to be a great winger, you HAVE to be soft.

Not sure that you have to be soft (I don't think of McCluggage as particularly soft?), but much to the chagrin of fans, hardness is surely very far down the list of KPIs for a modern day winger.

Would have thought the critical KPIs are:

• being faster than anyone else by foot
• being able to read the play faster than anyone else
• being able to maintain very disciplined positioning throughout close to an entire game
• being able to use the ball well
• having elite endurance so you don't add to rotation numbers

In offence, you're providing a leading option moving up the ground, and when the opposition tries to nullify your threat, it creates opportunity for your teammates up the corridor. In defensive transitions, you see wingers playing a pseudo-sweeper role during midfield stoppages, but then as soon as you've blocked the opposition from exiting the back of the stoppage, you're off trying to outrun everyone again.

If you can do all those things well, then unless there are specific requirements to fulfill your gameplan, it seems like everything else kinda secondary?

 

[The acurate one]

I'm not running the biro through his name. He's been serviceable and the type that will improve with a more mature team around him

 

[kangatragic]

Could be the worst recruit we've ever had. Has been horrible in all games this year

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Genuine shitruck.

 

[big_e]

The reason we can dick around through the corridor is because of old mate holding his width

 

[Roosurgence]

Another North Melbourne gift to a club for a shit scared useless campaigner!

Wouldn’t even take as a delisted FA.

 

[ToxicMegaPunts]

Offers nothing. Would rather Lazz be getting a game. Good thing he's got such a great tank, spends all his time running away from contests.

 

[Roosurgence]

Offers nothing. Would rather Lazz be getting a game.

Would rather put my **** in a blender than watch this cat in our jumper.

 

[Flawed Genius]

Yeah he's a cat. Ultra cat. Can't defend him today. Although we are playing on a ground without wings so maybe he shouldn't have been picked. It's staggering that you can get this far into a career and not understand that it's a physical game and you might get hit every so often