AFL Player # 4: Kyle Langford - 4 Snags v GWS!

[Beerfish]

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

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Look, he's a good forward.
But should we consider playing him more like a Fyfe role?

Eight years wasted not in the forward line. That’s more than most player’s careers. I still feel ill about it.

 

[Watson_my_mind]

He is our best player

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

Eight years wasted not in the forward line. That’s more than most player’s careers. I still feel ill about it.

The sad thing is we could all see it right from the get go. No chance Scott plays him anywhere other than forward.

 

[Zach Package]

It’s funny, sometimes you think a player blossoming in a new role wouldn’t have necessarily got to where he is without the journey or the previous experience in that other position but this is not one of those times. Just mucked around with him for almost a decade.

He’s brilliant, and if you asked him he’d probably tell you he’s left 4-5 on the table so far that he would normally nail which puts him in the lead in the Coleman.

 

[outersanctum]

It’s funny, sometimes you think a player blossoming in a new role wouldn’t have necessarily got to where he is without the journey or the previous experience in that other position but this is not one of those times. Just mucked around with him for almost a decade.

He’s brilliant, and if you asked him he’d probably tell you he’s left 4-5 on the table so far that he would normally nail which puts him in the lead in the Coleman.

Yup, wasted many years.

2nd in the Coleman, equal with Hogan and 2 behind Curnow. And that is after a slower start to the season. I still think this guy is underrated by most in AFL land. Genuine forward gun. Could be leading the Colemand after the next fortnight.

 

[DERO]

I really liked seeing him, parish and McGrath with arms over each others shoulders having a huge laugh after the game. There is chemistry there.

 

[VelvetSledge]

 

[MiguelM]

Eight years wasted not in the forward line. That’s more than most player’s careers. I still feel ill about it.

And WE all knew he was a forward!

 

[raskolnikov]

He is our best player

Merrett IMO but then Langers.

 

[mcgrath_truther]

 

[Megabattimus]

My boy!!!

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[Happyskeret]

I just put my vote in as a pure forward. Long live the King.

 

[faible]

"He's like a tall small"

Almost like a medium hey Matthew?

 

[Zach Package]

Llordo and Kyle are both listed at 192.

Times are a changing

 

[bommer16]

I’ve never been disappointed with a player who wore the number 4 (in my time as an Ess supp)

Paul Salmon (for a small amount of games)
Leon Baker
Michael Long (89-90)
Gav Wanganeen
J Watson
Maddy Prespakis

Great to see kyle polling for the Coleman.

 

[yodellinhank]

I’ve never been disappointed with a player who wore the number 4 (in my time as an Ess supp)

Paul Salmon (for a small amount of games)
Leon Baker
Gav Wanganeen
J Watson
Maddy Prespakis

Great to see kyle polling for the Coleman.

Daniel McAllister

 

[Yoda_]

You have the perfect hat trick in soccer (right foot, left foot, header)

He had the perfect mini bag versus giants

Banana, snap, kick and mark, roving ground ball

 

[carnthedons]

I’ve never been disappointed with a player who wore the number 4 (in my time as an Ess supp)

Paul Salmon (for a small amount of games)
Leon Baker
Gav Wanganeen
J Watson
Maddy Prespakis

Great to see kyle polling for the Coleman.

Michael Long went ok too

 

[Vindicater]

Michael Long went ok too

I had completely forgotten he wore 4 for his first few seasons.

 

[bommer16]

I had completely forgotten he wore 4 for his first few seasons.

Same

 

[Kong]

To be fair, it was a Long time ago.

 

[bommer16]

Yeah like a season before requesting 13.

I have edited my original post in honour of a legend.

 

[Yoda_]

It’s funny, sometimes you think a player blossoming in a new role wouldn’t have necessarily got to where he is without the journey or the previous experience in that other position but this is not one of those times. Just mucked around with him for almost a decade.

He’s brilliant, and if you asked him he’d probably tell you he’s left 4-5 on the table so far that he would normally nail which puts him in the lead in the Coleman.

The evidence was there in his second year, round 23 when he kicked 3.2 against an underwhelming Blues

The fact simpletons in the media think its some ground breaking find shows how stupid they are.

 

[katana]

there's a bit of revisionist history here. he has improved his competitiveness and physicality a lot over the journey - is that due to playing on ball? who can say for sure... was it worth a shot? i'd say yes. he had a lot of totally ineffective games early on, let's not pretend what we see now was anything like langford under worsfold.

 

[blitzer]

there's a bit of revisionist history here. he has improved his competitiveness and physicality a lot over the journey - is that due to playing on ball? who can say for sure... was it worth a shot? i'd say yes. he had a lot of totally ineffective games early on, let's not pretend what we see now was anything like langford under worsfold.

To be truly heretical - Langford 2024 version would probably go pretty well in the midfield or the backline as well.
But he's far too good up forward nowadays to lose that.