AFL Player 4: Kyle Langford

[Beerfish]

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

 

[Hak94]

My favourite thing about this thread is that there is a 99.9% chance that no one internally at the club is reading or listening to the debate over where he is best suited to play and you're all just mincing words with one another haha. Y'all gotta chill!

 

[Seagrave_Holmes]

His standout attributes are his overhead marking and goal kicking, but yes lets ignore this and persist with him as a midfielder.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Has be been tried as a defender yet? Maybe we should give that a go.

 

[Bombermania]

Not really. The "Langford must always play as a forward" crew never want to acknowledge the fact that he's good playing up the ground as well. FMD, there were people in here who said his 4th placed finish in the BnF was off the back of his two games playing the majority of time as a forward rather than a wing.

I'm firmly in the "Langford is a forward" camp but that doesn't mean he should stand in the goal square. I think he needs to stay in the forward half of ground which would enable him to lead out to the wing and I would play him on the forward side of any ruck contest so the mids know there is a target.

 

[Bombermania]

My favourite thing about this thread is that there is a 99.9% chance that no one internally at the club is reading or listening to the debate over where he is best suited to play and you're all just mincing words with one another haha. Y'all gotta chill!

There would be people at the club reading these forums just as some AFL media people read it.

The club wouldn't be relying on these forums for tips but they like to know a bit about what their supporter base is thinking.

 

[Lore]

There would be people at the club reading these forums just as some AFL media people read it.

The club wouldn't be relying on these forums for tips but they like to know a bit about what their supporter base is thinking.

I don’t think that extends to match committee but as a temp check here, blitz, Twitter, Facebook are all probably accessed by someone at the club in a non-professional capacity.

 

[Old Campaigner]

I don’t think that extends to match committee but as a temp check here, blitz, Twitter, Facebook are all probably accessed by someone at the club in a non-professional capacity.

There's apps that track sentiment, collate mentions on social media and stuff like that

 

[Lore]

There's apps that track sentiment, collate mentions on social media and stuff like that

Yeah that would be the marketing department. I just meant players and random admin staff, board members and the CEO etc on their private accounts.

 

[boncer34]

My favourite thing about this thread is that there is a 99.9% chance that no one internally at the club is reading or listening to the debate over where he is best suited to play and you're all just mincing words with one another haha. Y'all gotta chill!

So people are just conversing on a forum for no reason other than to converse?

Duh.

 

[Hak94]

So people are just conversing on a forum for no reason other than to converse?

Duh.

I mean, I feel like we're all largely just here to give our thoughts/interpretations on certain things to do with the team. Was merely suggesting that some of the folks on here waffle on/argue behind a keyboard. Converse, heck I do but the fighting is just cringey sometimes over things.

 

[Megabattimus]

Great game by Langers! Hit the scoreboard, did a good job at the centre bounces, did pretty much everything you could ever ask him to do.

 

[Bipolar Bear]

Proved we don't need to pay Jake Stringer 650k a year.

 

[eth-dog]

Was a very good option coming out of defence again, and worked hard forward. That's the game we need from him week in, week out.

 

[citizen-erased]

ripping game.
loved his movement today.
Was a bit of a flat track, but that's been our undoing sometimes

 

[naraku]

Better, much better! This is all we ask. No please, DO NOT go back into your shell the next month or so!

 

[NAB777]

Very interesting game, in that he managed to use his strength to curb Cunnington's impact at the centre bounce a few times.

Nice work.

 

[The Donners]

Credit where due, solid game, don’t recall putting a foot wrong.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Credit where due, solid game, don’t recall putting a foot wrong.

Just shows the difference a lack of pressure makes.

 

[Yoda_]

the line (+/-) for Kyle's disposal average this year is 2.

He averages 19.9 (20) disposals per game and has been +/- 2 of that in 7/10 games this year. One of those 3 exceeding it (27 v Brisbane in round 5) whilst the other two were 17 (round 2 v Power) and 13 (round 9 v Dockers).

Safe to say he has found his niche at the level in the last 18 months.

 

[Nifft]

Some say he’s a natural forward

 

[ghostdog]

If there are any techy people here, I'd love to see a gif of Langford's centre clearance where gathers from the tap and he finds someone i50. For the memory.

 

[The Donners]

If there are any techy people here, I'd love to see a gif of Langford's centre clearance where gathers from the tap and he finds someone i50. For the memory.

I’m no good at photoshop....

 

[bombadeer]

 

[Don Won]

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Pure midfielder.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

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