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

 

[Gumby2Hurley]

And to think this kid was Kelvin's next whipping boy mid-season.

EFA

 

[BrunoV]

I know it's all come from comments that Langford made himself but the Fyfe "comparison" is still being taken out of context.

The way I read his comments, he was talking about taking on the sort of training loads that Fyfe built his 2015 season on. The irony is that Fyfe asked his strength and conditioning guys to help him build the break away power that Dangerfield had and, if I recall correctly, all Fyfe says he did was during the 2014/2015 pre-season was eat, sleep and train. This is what Langford was talking about.

Langford is certainly building his body up a lot but I have not yet seen any of the natural brutality/aggression in his game for there to be any point comparing him to Fyfe as a similar style of player. There are different ways to be one of the game's best players. Based on what he has shown to date the sort of player he looks like becoming is a combination of Gunston (when forward) and Pendlebury (when in the middle). That's not to say that his becoming that good is a foregone conclusion, or that there are no differences, but they are the sorts of players with similar attributes who play roles in similar styles to what Langford has shown.

Laverde is the bull of the two and plays with more aggression around the ball and naturally has the sort of power that would end up looking something more like Fyfe (which again, is not to say that he will necessarily be that good though I think that he can be).

 

[Halorad]

At least off field he is following the fyfe trajectory.

Has Turned from a gangly kid with a long neck into the hulk.

 

[Skipper_]

Can we just forget the Fyfe thing?

 

[Fin ice Smuggler]

Can we just forget the Fyfe thing?

Let's, worsfold said that Kyle is 1 of two that looks set for a big year the other being orazio,

 

[eDPS]

 

[scanlon]

Happy birthday Fyfe!

 

[Saucy]

He has an amazing frame for someone who just turned 20.

 

[DERO]

OH MY.

 

[Mercuri Rising]

He has an amazing frame for someone who just turned 20.

blimey

 

[DERO]

LOL.

 

[doug85]

Swole.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

He has an amazing frame for someone who just turned 20.

Gerard doesn't like this.

 

[Beerfish]

Jeepers.

 

[daffo]

Oh, jingos

 

[Loonerty]

Good lord

 

[CourtzMajora]

Bloody hell!

(just following the pattern)

 

[onthemove77]

Wowee

 

[eDPS]

 

[Autobahn]

What a beef cake. Head to body proportion is very Fyfe like.

 

[TheFrenchCut]

#FyfeLife

 

[Dons4days]

Not sure if I'm being over optimistic on this kid but I think he could very well turn out to be one of the best young players on our list - Good hands, great kick, does well evasively and just looks to be in the mould the new age big midfielder.
He's progressing slowly but IMO he shows something new every time he steps out on the field and can't wait til he puts it all together.
I'm much more excited about this guy than I am Laverde.

Just watch his 30 possession, 2 goal game against Hawthorn rd1 - He'll start turning heads in 2017.

 

[eDPS]

 

[Beerfish]

Mason needs to even out that tan.

 

[SydneyBomber]

Beast mode, shaping up as a muscly caracella imo.

Just make sure gerard healy doesnt see those pics, lest he start some scurrilous rumours...