Sydney has a mountain of issues that need to be sorted.
Dealing with family and his obligations will take a large amount of work.
Then he will have to deal with impulse control.
He is only 20 or 21 and has had a huge mountain to climb just to get into AFL.
It is going to be a long process, one that he and the club are well equipped to deal with.
Just as Dan Richardson started Richmond on a new way with recommending Emma Murray to Dylan Grimes, then working with elders and the institute to help Sydney and others realise their potential is to be the outcome.
Most of us cannot understand the issues that first nations people have to deal with.
Head down, bum up is part of it, but Sydney's personality is amplified to help him feel better about himself, disguising the hardship that lurks underneath.