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.

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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

 

[mcgrath_truther]

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

 

[mcgrath_truther]

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.