AFL Player # 4: Kyle Langford - AA squad, Leading Goalkicker, McKracken Medal, 2nd in Crichton 🥈

[Beerfish]

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

 

[Runk]

It was pretty bad.

This might feel a little unfair but 1) I genuinely don't care & 2) Langford's experienced enough to know better, but can you imagine any one of the following players not effecting the contest in that instance:

Solomon
Wallis
Hardwick
Lucas
Fletcher
T.Daniher
Johnson
Hooker
Hurley
to name but a few.........

Essendon players past & present would've cringed at that attempt

I know the fans did

 

[owen87]

after he left Bianco why did he not follow through with his decision?

Probably because he realised he ****ed up and was trying to fix it.

 

[owen87]

This might feel a little unfair but 1) I genuinely don't care & 2) Langford's experienced enough to know better, but can you imagine any one of the following players not effecting the contest in that instance:

Solomon
Wallis
Hardwick
Lucas
Fletcher
T.Daniher
Johnson
Hooker
Hurley
to name but a few.........

Essendon players past & present would've cringed at that attempt

I know the fans did

You named a lot of defenders there, of which Langford has never been one.

Laverde or Ridley would have done a better job no doubt.

 

[Milanista28]

Probably because he realised he *ed up and was trying to fix it.

Probably and he ****ed it even harder, ah well s**t happens.

 

[Runk]

You named a lot of defenders there, of which Langford has never been one.

Laverde or Ridley would have done a better job no doubt.

Owen....do not defend him. He's played enough football to know what was required.

 

[FlyingV]

Owen....do not defend him. He's played enough football to know what was required.

Naughty Owen

 

[Runk]

Naughty Owen

Bad Owen!

 

[owen87]

Owen....do not defend him. He's played enough football to know what was required.

Things we've learned today; Langford isn't a defender.

 

[yodellinhank]

Things we've learned today; Langford isn't a defender.

I'll believe it when it's included in the poll

 

[owen87]

I'll believe it when it's included in the poll

I'd say these 31 people do care where he plays now.

 

[citizen-erased]

Mark Harvey needs to casually walk up to Langford and say no more than, ‘what do you think I would have done in that situation Langers?’

smacked into Elliott and allowing a free to be paid to the chorus of Collingwood supporter jeers? then we'd be talking about the ill-disciplined act?

we are sweating a lot of mm/split second decisions that culminated in a single play that turned a game.
Jones
Wright
Merrett/Shiel/McGrath/Caldwell
Ham
Langford

 

[TheGrizz]

Tim gave him an absolute serve for this on SEN this morning.

Deserved. I lost my mind live (and again on the Bombercast podcast) when I saw it.

 

[bacon buster]

smacked into Elliott and allowing a free to be paid to the chorus of Collingwood supporter jeers? then we'd be talking about the ill-disciplined act?

we are sweating a lot of mm/split second decisions that culminated in a single play that turned a game.
Jones
Wright
Merrett/Shiel/McGrath/Caldwell
Ham
Langford

Harvey was no thug. He probably would have marked it himself.

 

[citizen-erased]

Harvey was no thug. He probably would have marked it himself.

was more thinking of the calls to physically impose the contest more.
I get nervous when our defenders tackle in the pies forward line (ginnivan aside obviously)

too easy to be overzealous and chop the arm, get the smaller player high.
Kelly probably could have been better too killing the ball, but Elliott is class. Top 3 small forward in the comp if not the best.

Sometimes you gotta accept we got beaten by a better side.
Pendles starts it. Elliott finishes it. Two of the best Pies players since Bucks.

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

Heppell was on the bench.

Yep, staggering to have your captain who is a defender on the bench and a bloke who shouldn’t even be on the list out on the field in the crucial last few minutes of the game. Staggering…

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

Laverde put in a mighty effort to nearly run down Bianco trying to cover up ham’s mess.

Yep I watched the replay, Ham was so costly in that play…

 

[Runk]

Things we've learned today; Langford isn't a defender.

I genuinely didn’t have ‘cos he’s not a defender he doesn’t know how to affect a contest’ on my bingo card but here we are.

 

[Stopher]

Yeah, Langford is about 20th on my list of s**t that went wrong in those last 10 minutes.

 

[yodellinhank]

Yeah, Langford is about 20th on my list of s**t that went wrong in those last 10 minutes.

Is your list chronological?

 

[eth-dog]

Yeah, Langford is about 20th on my list of s**t that went wrong in those last 10 minutes.

I'm one of his biggest fans but it was a very bad effort.

 

[fairbump_playon]

Yes he needed to smash the ball into the stands but the timing was out. I don't think you can underestimate how much he didn't want to give away a free. People say take the body but the only way to do that would have been to give away a free for in the back or chopping the arms. Fatigue and Elliott's class in turning his body perfectly..

Also both Langford and Kelly probably would have been better off if they thought it was a one on one contest.

 

[ant555]

Did not think his overall game was all that great this week.

 

[Yoda_]

Profesional game, did what he needed to do and did it well. 20 & 2 with 10 marks is great.

 

[naraku]

Solid return from Kyle.

 

[JT_the_Man]

Was it just me or did he spend the majority of his time playing as an inside mid today?