Rightly or wrongly, the club obviously feels comfortable enough with our ruck stocks.
We had plenty of opportunities to address our apparent lack of ruck depth and didn't. Indeed, we still can but look like getting Stack instead.
I personally think that Stack is a bit of a luxury. I posted else where that on talent alone, I think he is a better prosect than Hill, and I thought he would be drafted higher than the pick 40+ he was slated to go at. In the end, he slipped through the draft altogether. People have mentioned off field baggage, and he does have some, but so does Hill so to get Stack after the draft if it happens is a good get.
But realistically, I don't really see the need Stack fits. With Tom Lynch now in our forward line, I feel we might have drafted a kid or two who could play across HFF and deliver the ball well inside 50, like a Sheds with better footskills. It is a bit of a niche role, but there were/are still a couple of kids who could fill the role really well.
I personally would like to have a look at Tyron Smallwood. He has fantastic foot skills, great goal sense, a great footy brain and is a very hard player for his size. Like Shane Edwards, he also has great vision and if you look at highlights of various WA u/18 players, he is often involved in the play when he is not the subject of the footage. Injuries cruelled his chances this year, most notably a broken jaw which costs him a few U/18 games, so he is an under the radar type with a lot of upside.
Jordan Clark will be a good player for the Cats, but he is close to being AFL level ready. I reckon Smallwood has more potential to improve than Clark does. A couple of years on an AFL list and you'd have a very good player in Smallwood I suspect.
