Player Watch #2: Jaidyn Stephenson - retires from AFL after 122gms (54 CFC/68 NM) & 130gls (76 CFC/56 NM) - '18 RS - NM will pay out contract - go well Sleevo

[King Corey]

I really like him. Sad it finished up like this.

 

[hilly]

He was a flash in the pan and never played a game for us...

Did he play in a premiership for you guys ?

No, left end of 95.

 

[hilly]

+1 to posters who are torn on this. He obviously had the talent, just never seemed to get it together for long periods of time.

Don't understand why we have to pay out the contract though, if it was a career ending injury and can't play anymore, I could understand that 100%. But he chose to retire.

Could theoretically have played 2025 in the VFL and collected every dollar he was entitled to.

 

[Samsquanch]

This is just revisionism. They had to get rid of wanted players due to f***ing up their salary cap. Many of them were more happy to see Treloar go than Stevo.

Maybe not Noble Jr. though.

 

[Skarrz]

Would we have delisted Curtis Taylor if we knew Stevo was going.

North don’t usually do it but yes you can under AFL rules delist two shittrucks in the same off season

 

[dus]

All the best to him.

I doubt he will be missed.

In the sweet spot age wise to provide leadership and hit his peak.

Instead he walks, catch ya Sleevo.

 

[big_e]

I feel sorry for him, tbh.

38 games into his AFL career, he's won a Rising Star, played in a grand final, leading his club's goal kicking,. He's just played in front of 75,000 on the Queen's Birthday and his team is second on the ladder.

You then get done for betting on yourself and miss the rest of the H & A season, the next season is screwed around by lockdowns and COVID, and at the end of that you get traded out to NMFC, whose coach has just had a nervous breakdown, and inexplicably, it actually goes downhill from there.

Sure, he's been his own worst enemy at times, but he's still very young and I hope he gets a chance to live life to the fullest instead of being cast as a failed ex-footballer.

Go well, young man.