AFL Player 4: Kyle Langford

[Beerfish]

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

 

[Highly Evolved]

He's absolutely crucial now, but his critics will stay quiet.

One of my whipping boys to be honest. He is definitely crucial and without trying to take anything away from that for the sake of being petty, I do think he still has another level.

 

[JT_the_Man]

3 weeks, hamstring strain.

Did we bring him back early only for him to reinjure himself?

 

[DERO]

3 weeks, hamstring strain.

Did we bring him back early only for him to reinjure himself?

Too early.

 

[citizen-erased]

****
We are so much better with him in the side

 

[Old Campaigner]

wasn't that high performance dude we flogged off the Horks supposed to stop this sort of shit from happening?

 

[essendon]

Too early.

Good to see nothing has changed in our medical department in rushing players back.....well done !!!

 

[ant555]

wasn't that high performance dude we flogged off the Horks supposed to stop this sort of sh*t from happening?

He actually got a knee to the back of the same hammy. Not a lot they can do about that.

 

[Megabattimus]

He actually got a knee to the back of the same hammy. Not a lot they can do about that.

**** that's rough.

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[Lore]

AFL website describing him as a “gun mid” and a “youngster”…


Seems he’ll be a youngster forever, and I doubt we’ll ever have consensus about whether he’s a mid or not, let alone a gun mid

 

[JT_the_Man]

AFL website describing him as a “gun mid” and a “youngster”…
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Seems he’ll be a youngster forever, and I doubt we’ll ever have consensus about whether he’s a mid or not, let alone a gun mid

I am in the he’s a gun camp, or at the very least one of our better players camp.

 

[DERO]

He actually got a knee to the back of the same hammy. Not a lot they can do about that.

Never would have happened if they had given him another week off!

 

[fairbump_playon]

Never would have happened if they had given him another week off!

I dunno. They haven’t clearly said that the knee was a Swan knee. Could have been a BF supporter.

 

[Towno78]

wasn't that high performance dude we flogged off the Horks supposed to stop this sort of sh*t from happening?

There is no such thing as "stop this sort of shit from happening", that is an impossible dream.

A player still has an increased risk of re-injurying their hammy 16 weeks post injury. Do we give every player an automatic 16 weeks off for every hammy?

 

[DERO]

As jmoo wan mentioned, we went all in trying to win.

 

[11kgm]

Waterman in?

 

[blitzer]

Become a very good player has Langford. Really versatile, reliable guy to take a mark and kick a goal when needed. Does a lot of very good things.
Quite underrated. His injuries have really hurt us in the tail end of the season.

 

[Lore]

From the injury video. Pretty sure it's the same hamstring, since the very next question they emphasised that Heppell did the opposite hand with his injury this time.

Yeah so Langers unfortunately injured the hamstring during the game he'll now miss a couple of weeks and enters into the rehab process, hopefully gets a chance to play towards the back end of the year.

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[naraku]

Back by the end of the year ? Our year probably ends in 3 weeks unless a small miracle occurs and we win our last 3 and other results go our way.

 

[Halftimehero]

Potentially scrapping the pre finals bye isn’t ideal for Langers.

 

[Lore]

Not available this weekend, reassess over the next couple of weeks

Langers is in that hamstring rehab phase, we're now a couple of weeks in to that. He's getting some good sessions in and he won't be available this weekend, and then we'll assess over the next couple of weeks, it all depends on where we sit as a team.

Injury news: Jones, Langford unavailable for Sunday

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[Halftimehero]

Not available this weekend, reassess over the next couple of weeks

Injury news: Jones, Langford unavailable for Sunday

The latest on Harry Jones, Kyle Langford, Jye Caldwell and more.

www.essendonfc.com.au

The scrapping of the bye not good for him.

 

[Maddogm]

The scrapping of the bye not good for him.

Depends really, it's not really scrapped just integrated with the finals schedule. So it could end up being timed just right, it could be timed poorly or we could get eliminated before we get to it

 

[Halftimehero]

Depends really, it's not really scrapped just integrated with the finals schedule. So it could end up being timed just right, it could be timed poorly or we could get eliminated before we get to it

In terms of Langford trying to be ready for finals, I can’t possibly see how you think this is not a 100% negative.

 

[Ambrosia]

Rushing him back for the Sydney game never made any sense

 

[ant555]

Rushing him back for the Sydney game never made any sense

Because they could have predicted he would get a knee to the same hamstring ?