Jail stay tough on Stack — agent

RICHMOND footballer Sydney Stack’s agent has revealed how difficult spending the Christmas period in jail has been for his client ahead of him facing court again on Wednesday.

Stack was denied bail in Perth Magistrates Court only days before Christmas for alleged COVID- 19 self- quarantine breaches in his home state.

That decision resigned the 20- year- old Tiger to spending multiple weeks behind bars before his January 6 court appearance. Stack said at that first hearing his AFL career was “on the line”.

Asked how Stack was handling being in prison, Paul Peos, of Inside 50 Player Management, told the Herald Sun: “He’s finding it a very challenging situation.”

Stack initially received special permission to enter Western Australia to attend his late grandfather’ s funeral for “cultural healing”.

His alleged breach was discovered when police issued him with a move- on notice for disorderly conduct, after he was involved in a late- night brawl.

Stack nominated a Northam address as his place of quarantine but later relocated to Belmont, about an hour away.

The second- year footballer also received a 10- match suspension for leaving Richmond’s Queensland hub in early September to attend a strip club, before being involved in a fight outside a kebab store.

The WA border was again closed to Victorians as of midnight on New Year’s Eve, and the Tigers confirmed they won’t have a club representative in court to support Stack.