Just looking at Laird's scores from last season :-
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In his first game of the season in round 3 he scored 93 - coming back earlier than expected after a broken hand.
In 18 of the next 19 games he scored 100+ , seven in excess of 140
The 1 time he went under 100 was 97 so very close anyway.
He ranked first in the league for disposals, second for tackles, third for ground balls, fourth for clearances.
For whatever reason, he never seems to get a hard tag or maybe his style is such that coaches don't think he can be effectively tagged. Dawson is the crow teams want to shutdown with his elite/damaging kicks so guessing teams are loathe to deploy 2 taggers - moving too far away from the way they want to play.
29 years old so still in his prime, great reports on his preseason so far, doesn't get a hard tag.... hard to see him not going 120+ again tbh
Then I looked at his fixtures - 4 of his first 5 at home including Richmond in round 2 which give up big numbers to elite mids from opposing teams/don't tag under Hardwick.
As @wogitalia pointed out, his fixture works out well for VC/Capt purposes. In the first 6 rounds his draw works out well with Oliver for example if going for those 2 as your preferred VC/Capt combo.
703K is a lot to pay but for the above reasons I am very keen to get him in...only 10% ownership currently further adds to his appeal
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In his first game of the season in round 3 he scored 93 - coming back earlier than expected after a broken hand.
In 18 of the next 19 games he scored 100+ , seven in excess of 140
The 1 time he went under 100 was 97 so very close anyway.He ranked first in the league for disposals, second for tackles, third for ground balls, fourth for clearances.
For whatever reason, he never seems to get a hard tag or maybe his style is such that coaches don't think he can be effectively tagged. Dawson is the crow teams want to shutdown with his elite/damaging kicks so guessing teams are loathe to deploy 2 taggers - moving too far away from the way they want to play.
29 years old so still in his prime, great reports on his preseason so far, doesn't get a hard tag.... hard to see him not going 120+ again tbh
Then I looked at his fixtures - 4 of his first 5 at home including Richmond in round 2 which give up big numbers to elite mids from opposing teams/don't tag under Hardwick.
As @wogitalia pointed out, his fixture works out well for VC/Capt purposes. In the first 6 rounds his draw works out well with Oliver for example if going for those 2 as your preferred VC/Capt combo.
703K is a lot to pay but for the above reasons I am very keen to get him in...only 10% ownership currently further adds to his appeal
