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Toast Welcome to Fremantle Ethan Stanley - 2023 Mid Season Draft Pick 8
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Reckon that ship has sailed, regardless of whether he has or hasn’t cracked a sad. Evidence on field is that he is not an upgrade on either Worner or Henry. Even Wagner moving upfield from HBF to wing is better.
The Milky Bar Kid. There's blast from the past. My apologies beforehand, but it reminds me of a kids joke that was going around once upon a time.
The Milky Bar kid walks into a bar and asks for a sundae split with nuts. The nice girl asks if he wants his nuts crushed. The Milky Bar Kid, draws his guns and says, "Do you want your **** shot off?"
Sorry
I speak the language of 21 year olds. Believe me, this is evidence.
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Yes but there's a difference between being irrational and annoyed in the moment and holding a long term grudge.
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Yeah I keep reading stuff like this but I doubt AFL players and their managers are that sensitive about a trade not getting through. The guy was still contracted at the end of the day.
This thread is supposed to be about Stanley. All the discussion is about whether we’re getting a fringe player Jeremy Sharp.
At the end of the day Sharp wasn’t a priority at trade period. We are decently tight on list spots with a bunch of likely upgrades from the rookie list.
So as it stands based on onfield performances this season he would be at best a rookie list option with Freo and it is on the rookie list that we already have Worner and Stanley.
West coast would more likely have significant amount of primary list spots available so makes sense he end up at WC. On the cheap. GC played this one stupidly bad. Why they would not trade for a 3rd I will never know. Now he can’t get a game and at best will fetch a token draft pick at the back end (which we know GC won’t entertain) or more likely a delisted FA).
Back to Stanley. Freo were keen and after Hansen Jnr got snaffled by North he was likely next on our list. Four names reportedly on our list:
Maric, Hansen-Jnr, Stanley, Hunter.
Stanley was projected to go at 3 to Hawks. Has speed and endurance and nice long kick. Good tools for a good long term wingman.
At the end of the day Sharp wasn’t a priority at trade period. We are decently tight on list spots with a bunch of likely upgrades from the rookie list.
So as it stands based on onfield performances this season he would be at best a rookie list option with Freo and it is on the rookie list that we already have Worner and Stanley.
West coast would more likely have significant amount of primary list spots available so makes sense he end up at WC. On the cheap. GC played this one stupidly bad. Why they would not trade for a 3rd I will never know. Now he can’t get a game and at best will fetch a token draft pick at the back end (which we know GC won’t entertain) or more likely a delisted FA).
Back to Stanley. Freo were keen and after Hansen Jnr got snaffled by North he was likely next on our list. Four names reportedly on our list:
Maric, Hansen-Jnr, Stanley, Hunter.
Stanley was projected to go at 3 to Hawks. Has speed and endurance and nice long kick. Good tools for a good long term wingman.
Let's face it, if he's going to crack the sads over a trade deal falling through he's going to struggle with tougher challenges in a career as an AFL footballer. For example, we've filled that list need with Stanley. He looks decent as a prospect. Seems to have a bit of attitude, which I like.
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46 it is then
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Amiss should take 29 EOY.
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I noticed in his interview on 360 that he had his junior jumped hung up behind him, number 24.
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I love it when a new number gets over. (All due respect to Spider).
Good, means he will keep 24, it suits him IMO
Going to make it his own for many years
Gonna have an active Christmas...
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He looks like a goer and feels a need.
Very excited. As always with new blood.
Very excited. As always with new blood.
campaigner?
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Fremantle mid-season draft pick Ethan Stanley’s rapid rise from local footy to VFL to AFL
Six months ago, Dockers mid-season draftee Ethan Stanley was invited to review some training footage with Box Hill. What happened next is hard to believe, writes ELIZA REILLY.3 min read
June 2, 2023 - 8:00AM
Ethan Stanley is charting a rapid rise from Frankston u-19s, to Box Hill VFL (pictured), to the Fremantle Dockers and AFL footy, all in the space of six months. Picture: Josh Chadwick/AFL Photos via Getty Images
Just six months ago, Ethan Stanley didn’t think his footy career could get much better.
The Dockers mid-season draftee was invited to review some training footage with Box Hill coach Zane Littlejohn. The VFL club’s scouts had plucked Stanley from Frankston’s YCW’s under-19 team and invited him down to pre-season.
“Tell me what you think your weapon is as a player. What’s your one wood?” Littlejohn asked whilst hooking up his laptop to the big screen.
“Probably acceleration and my kick,” Stanley replied.
That’s a somewhat modest description. Stanley is a proper athlete who boasts power, speed and agility. As a wingman, he can run from point post to point post and he can also hit the scoreboard.
The pair went back and forth, picking out moments in the footage where Stanley hadn’t been at his explosive best. But there was one more slide to come. ‘Would you like a VFL contract for 2023?’ it read.
“I didn’t think footy was going to get much better for me at that point,” Stanley told CODE Sports.
“Especially coming from under-19s, it was hard to crack a senior team locally. But getting that VFL contract was amazing. I was over the moon.”
So imagine then hearing your name read out in the AFL’s mid-season draft?
“A year ago, if someone were to have asked me if I’d be on an AFL list in a year’s time, I would’ve said there’s a zero per cent chance,” Stanley said.
“It’s the way I grew up with footy, I was overlooked for 18s programs and things like that. I’ve always wanted to play AFL but I didn’t expect it to be a reality.”
Hard work made it possible.
The 19-year-old took two months off work at the start of the year to focus on football. It paid off and Stanley made his VFL debut in round one against Sydney, winning 11 disposals.
It didn’t take long for Stanley to catch the eye of AFL recruiters. Three rounds into the season, he was selected in the 2023 Young Guns series, which pitted Victorian mid-season draft hopefuls against the state’s best under-18 boys footballers across two games.
That recognition released the shackles. Against Casey, his last match before game one of the series, he kicked two goals from 11 touches. Then in his second outing for the Young Guns, he had 15 disposals and two goals.
“After the Young Guns matches, I came back with a different level of confidence. I thought if I was already a VFL player, why couldn’t I be an AFL player?” Stanley said.
“It’s been good for me that it’s happened so quickly because it hasn’t given me a chance to think about it too much. I’ve just had to focus on what’s in front of me.”
The opportunities kept coming for Stanley. He was invited to train with Hawthorn as part of the club’s VFL alignment as speculation mounted that the Hawks would make it official and take him in the mid-season draft.
But Hawthorn instead opted for ruckman Clay Tucker at pick three, gambling Stanley would slip to their second pick.
Just a week earlier, Stanley had also met with Fremantle. If it wasn’t to be with the Hawks, he thought there was a decent chance he’d be a Docker.
“I could tell we had a good connection. It was a really easy meeting and I wasn’t stressed or anything. In the back of my head, I knew there was a chance I might end up at Freo,” he said.
The Dockers don’t need to worry about a nickname. ‘Milky’ is set to make his way west this weekend.
“My best mate called me it one day and everyone loved it. It went from local footy and followed me to Box Hill. I have the light hair colour, light skin colour. To be fair I do love drinking milk as well so it all makes sense,” Stanley explained.
Asked if his milk habits came anywhere close to the extreme obsession of Greater Western Sydney rookie Jason Gillbee: “I saw that. I don’t mind drinking it straight out of the carton as well.”
Flower me. Such a little word to be scrubbed. It was T for Titmouse, I for I'm shocked, T for take that and S for such is life.
If on the other hand you're asking me if I'm a campaigner, the answer would be without even trying.
I think if he is ok with it play on.
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