AFL Player # 4: Kyle Langford

[Beerfish]

Contract Status: Restricted Free Agent 2026
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 8, boncer34

 

[eDPS]

Kyle isn't our biggest problem but I would look at letting him drift up the ground more then he does.

Tbh, he has had 1 great year in 10 years.

Yeah, yeah I know out of position etc but I think he needs to be a lot more useful and accountable now. Former top 20 pick...ONE great year and most of this one are his only passes.

Accuracy a big thing for him this year, if he was just a little more accurate he would have pretty much matched last year. Considering how bad our entries are I’d say his last two years have been great overall.

2024


2023

 

[Just A Tragic]

Kyle, along with the team, looked pretty good in the first half of the season, basically playing as a smart undersized FF.
Somewhere along the way, he got an injury we never heard about publicity, but I see posters saying it was hip, which makes sense.
He lost his zip and kick. Without that, it doesn't matter how smart he is.
The question I have is, is it an injury that can be overcome?

 

[naraku]

Accuracy a big thing for him this year, if he was just a little more accurate he would have pretty much matched last year. Considering how bad our entries are I’d say his last two years have been great overall.

2024
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2023
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Would you leave him forward then or let him move up the ground somewhat?

 

[eDPS]

Would you leave him forward then or let him move up the ground somewhat?

I would mix up with he and Caddy who goes up and who goes deep. Keep the defenders on their toes

 

[Howard Moon]

So it was the meniscus bothering him

 

[jannissary]

So it was the meniscus bothering him

where'd you see that?

 

[Old Campaigner]

where'd you see that?

Club injury update, went in to get his knee cleaned out

 

[jannissary]

Club injury update, went in to get his knee cleaned out

gotcha. it was clear as day he was carrying something, so.

 

[Kong]

Why would they not at least give him a few weeks to rest?

It wouldn't have healed a meniscus tear in that time, but it would give him a few %, and it's not like he played very well in the second half of the year anyway.

 

[the PILL]

I don't really like that the club kept playing him knowing he had meniscus tear, even if minor.

No wonder he was turning like a bus and could rarely get any separation off his man.

 

[ghostdog]

Why would they not at least give him a few weeks to rest?

It wouldn't have healed a meniscus tear in that time, but it would give him a few %, and it's not like he played very well in the second half of the year anyway.

Because StI77 iN CoNt3Nti0N

 

[yodellinhank]

Playing Cox or heck a warm fit body like Setterfield as a forward is better than playing an injured Langford.

Langford kicked 43 goals. How are you going to replace that?

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

I don't really like that the club kept playing him knowing he had meniscus tear, even if minor.

No wonder he was turning like a bus and could rarely get any separation off his man.

Bizarre statement. Majority of AFL players would be playing through some form of injury. He wasn’t completely useless out there he just wasn’t his prime self for the second half of the year. Club managed him well to get him through the season from what I can see.

 

[Yoda_]

need some serious consistency from this bloke now that Stringer has moved on.

Was AA Squad worthy 12 months ago bu didn't reach anywhere near the heights in 2024. We need him to contribute 12 - 15 touches, 6 - 10 marks and 1.5 goals a week (or there about cause I know Ethan will say player x was only one to be around that mark) lol

 

[ant555]

need some serious consistency from this bloke now that Stringer has moved on.

Was AA Squad worthy 12 months ago bu didn't reach anywhere near the heights in 2024. We need him to contribute 12 - 15 touches, 6 - 10 marks and 1.5 goals a week (or there about cause I know Ethan will say player x was only one to be around that mark) lol

If he does not have a hip injury again he probably will be okay . He started off well enough.

 

[Yoda_]

See this bloke being spoken about a bit in the other thread(s), I dont see why he couldn't become our Luke Breust

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Luke Breust

Age

33

Ht

182cm

Wt

82kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.6

4star

K

8.0

3star

HB

6.7

4star

M

3.4

3star

T

4.0

5star

G

1.9

5star

D

10.0

3star

K

6.0

2star

HB

4.0

3star

M

1.3

1star

T

4.8

5star

G

1.5

5star

D

9.8

3star

K

6.0

3star

HB

3.8

3star

M

2.4

3star

T

2.8

5star

G

1.8

5star

.

LB obviously a fairly intellectual footballer, Langford could do the same imho

 

[faible]

See this bloke being spoken about a bit in the other thread(s), I dont see why he couldn't become our Luke Breust.

LB obviously a fairly intellectual footballer, Langford could do the same imho

You think the Kyle Langford who ran away from a ball-in-play to the interchange can be an intellectual footballer like Luke Bruest?

 

[Vander18]

need some serious consistency from this bloke now that Stringer has moved on.

Was AA Squad worthy 12 months ago bu didn't reach anywhere near the heights in 2024. We need him to contribute 12 - 15 touches, 6 - 10 marks and 1.5 goals a week (or there about cause I know Ethan will say player x was only one to be around that mark) lol

1. Teams worked out he’s our best forward and started to send their #1 defender to him somewhere around the halfway mark of the season.
2. Copped a hip injury that to me eye impacted his kicking for the rest of the season.

I have no concerns re Langford personally.

 

[P Money]

Yep I think that's the issue for Langford. If he's copping the best defender each week he is simply not big/athletic enough to beat them with any kind of consistency. So as long as he is our 'best' forward he is going to struggle.

 

[Rick Ross]

Yep I think that's the issue for Langford. If he's copping the best defender each week he is simply not big/athletic enough to beat them with any kind of consistency. So as long as he is our 'best' forward he is going to struggle.

For a guy to be our highest goal kicker (at 43 - it was even above Stringer!!!!) despite apparently being injured and copping the best defender is a sign of quality.

If he repeats that in 2025 and Caddy, 2MP/Drapper get second or third line defenders, I’ll happily take that.

No injury & hopefully better delivery into F50 - can he break out further? Shouldn’t go backwards???

 

[P Money]

For a guy to be our highest goal kicker (at 43 - it was even above Stringer!!!!) despite apparently being injured and copping the best defender is a sign of quality.

If he repeats that in 2025 and Caddy, 2MP/Drapper get second or third line defenders, I’ll happily take that.

No injury & hopefully better delivery into F50 - can he break out further? Shouldn’t go backwards???

I think as Vander18 said, around halfway through the year teams started sending their best defender to Langford and he was severely restricted from then on. May have been in part due to injury, but the eye test tells you that he's not a genuine key position forward and a real quality stopper is going to get the better of him more often than not.

As has been mentioned he's a Breust/Gunston type player - high footy IQ, reasonable athleticism and very accurate kicks for goal - who had great careers as 2nd/third forwards with players like Buddy and Roughy taking the biggest and best key defenders.

I can see him struggling to replicate 2024 if he ends up with the best defender on him for the entire season from round 1.