Former #17 James Stewart

[dbeas]

I was at the game and couldn’t believe how little Smith looked - he was actually standing next to Stewart and Hookerr… massive units!

[Deckham]

His pretty slow but still as fast as McKenna

lolz, as if Chook can run! Obviously a lie.

[Bomb_Doe]

Welcome to Essendon James Stewart.

I may be the odd one out on here but I'm happy with it. Have said for a fair while I wouldn't mind us grabbing him on the cheap

Bingo call.
Looking at the early posts not much love for Stewart. He’s come very good.

[Aceman]

Yep, I posted a couple of seasons back that my brother lived in Sydney and went to heaps of NEAFL games and commented on how much he stood out and just looked like a natural forward but was never going to get a game ahead of Patton, Cameron, Boyd etc at the time

[Josh]

He is a Gun footballer that will go down as one of our greatest pick ups post drug saga. This week he will play the same amount of games he played for GWS. This is a Giant Achievement (See that pun?) that shows hes a valued member of our team going forward.

[westie]

Sorry to hijack the stewart thread but Remember that time he kept up with this bloke, his pretty slow too though.

[wimmera1]

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[Riolio]

That was AGES ago tho

[PipetoNul]

I agree with this. Unless something drastic happens, Hooker wont be in the backline this season.

I think the aim of the game is to put more pressure on the opposition mids to try and stop kicks to leads. If the opposition can be pressured into bombing it long into our backline, it will suit Hartley,

[Fairybread]

…or they can look at that “chase” out of the backline from Friday night in the last quarter. Perfect example of what Reboot is talking about.

[NiftyNev2]

It looks like hes starting to get recognized by the broader football public now. hes got a front page photo on the AFL site. Shows his hard work is paying off

I bet I’m not the only one who tried to play that only to find I enlarged a picture and took a few secs to figure out my mistake…

[anon71769209]

Close thread. Don’t want Stewart! :s

Sorry, was looking at early predictions and found this. This + Smith, KB knows how to pick em.

[barnz]

KB is the anti you.

players he hates have their career thrive, players you love have their careers die.

[anon71769209]

He’s not a 3rd tall Gunston type. He’s another KPF. As someone said Redman/Lang/LAV can compete for the 3rd tall role. Honestly this bloke is the PERFECT pick up as a cheap gamble.

What people don’t realise is we already have the star of the show. Joe should be aiming to kick 50+ goals next season as he develops, has better fwds around him competing for attention and is playing in a much better side which wins more games. Stewart doesn’t need to be that. If he can start having 35+ goal seasons to go with Joe taking the lion’s share we’re laughing. Stewart looks like he could be a great sidekick for Joe. Athletic, agile, good below the knees and can kick (that’ll be refreshing will it not?). Sure he looks like he could use a rev up and some aggression but you don’t get ready made perfect players for pick 59. This bloke was never going to play ahead of Cameron Patton Lobb (Boyd). We SHOULD have another KPF developing and this is him, he’s young and has some upside. Also he does this REALLY weird thing for our structure… it’s hard to quite explain but … I suppose you could call it… playing our 2 AA KPDs in the positions they earned AA selection for?

Here’s a message I got from someone who would know him very well. I won’t say who:

“I like him a lot [redacted for ID purposes] can play when confident”

“He would be good for the Dons, had a bit of AFL experience and did well, still young as hell would have a good career kicking plenty of goals I reckon”

We have room on our list for another KPF. I reckon Brown is good up there but I’m in the minority. If Stewart doesn’t make it in the next 2-3 years (we’ll know by then) we part ways and move on. There is VERY little downside. I would be thrilled if/when we pick him up. Not because he’ll be the messiah or necessarily be anything, but all things considered it will be a very good decision which is exactly one we need to make.

@yaco55

[aboods]

His pretty slow but still as fast as McKenna

Haha, can everyone who pots hooker about his speed please look at this

It would be interesting to see what his top speed is if they disregard his runup for set shots at goal

[Killer_Mike]

Good call Dell.

[anon71769209]

Except about Lang! And LAV!

[Speedy_Gonzales]

Stewart been a revelation.

We aren’t the only one’s going tall in fwd line + Stringer type setup.

Port now running Dixon, Marshall, Westhoff (fwd/ruck) + Watts.

And that did a number on Freo with how many marks they were taking.

[Albert_Thurgood]

No - not the veteran actor…or the current one in Home and Away.

But, a key forward playing at GWS and the son of former Magpie Craig Stewart. Was reading a tidbit this morning that we might have a look.

Fark Port.

Edit: don’t know how this got posted in response to Pazza- should have been to Speedy’s post.

In summary, and for the avoidance of doubt, Fark Port!

[Finding_Nino]

GWS too Patton,Cameron,Lobbe

Hopefully the club is onto something.