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Career High SuperCoach Score: 110 Vs Brisbane (2020)
Career High AFLFantasy Score: 80 Vs North Melbourne (2018)
Career High SuperCoach Average: 70.9 (2020)
Career High AFLFantasy Average: 50.34 (2020)
Impact on New Club
It’s an astute pickup for North Melbourne to bring in Aidan Corr. At 195cm the former top 15 pick has been a key pillar to the recent finals runs for GWS. As a key position player, he averages elite in the AFL for metre gained and above average for rebound ’50s, effective disposals and tackles inside defensive 50.
At 26 he provides the next coach of North Melbourne to be able to prepare for life after Robbie Tarrant and also start to look at building a long term defensive core.
Even if the Kangaroos choose to play three 195cm+ stalls down back in Tarrant, McKay & Corr, it would actually have a benefit to the team. It could allow the Roos to free Tarrant up to use his elite marking ability to intercept.
With Corr as the leader of the talls and Luke McDonald the rebounder, the Roos now have a chance to rebuild a struggling defensive unit as the club looks to get back on its feet.
Impact on Old Club
The Giants have yet another best 22 player to replace and this one while he’s a low key name he is an important cog. His ability to play lockdown often freed up Nick Haynes to peel off an impact as a ‘third up’ option.
Additionally, his agility and good short but of speed meant his closing on leading opponents would be hard to replace. Key Tall Phil Davis and Sam Taylor both missed a lot of footy this year through injury.
But even then the Giants were happy to play all three (plus Haynes) and looked to stretch opposition forwards. Rather developing tall Connor Idun could be the one who gets the first opportunity.
If not him former Commonwealth Game decathlete Jake Stein could build off his five games from 2019. Should the Giants still want to replace him with a tall, they could look to the draft.
Denver Grainger-Barrass could slide to the Giants first pick, they’ll likely snaffle him up. Otherwise, they could consider Zach Reid or Heath Chapman. Personally, I think it’s unlikely that they’d give a new draftee a KPD role. Especially as internally they still believe they have the list to contend in 2021.
GWS don’t have to replace him, with a tall. With multiple first-choice players leaving through free agency and trade requests, this could be the ‘jolt’ the Giants need. They’ve now got an opportunity to change a game style and structure.
Adding both Lachie Ash and Isaac Cumming would add a new layer of pace and poise off the halfback. While hard-running midfielder Xavier O’Halloran could move to halfback and be finally rewarded with multiple games.
Fantasy Summary
Before this season, Corr had never been fantasy relevant. And to be fair, for a majority of 2020, that statement rings true. However, for a few weeks, he was a valuable SuperCoach scorer.
Between rounds 3-10 in SuperCoach he scored: 103, 102, 70, 80, 110, 74, 69 & 75. That’s an average of 85 over a seven-game stretch. That’s handy enough off the waiver wire. One of the major reasons for his scoring bump was that GWS allocated him to be the primary kick in tacker.
The reason I bring this up is the impact this could have on Luke McDonald, who flew home to be one of the form fantasy footballers in defence. Do I think North Melbourne follow suit? No, I don’t. But it’s certainly something to take note off.
Beyond 8-10 games over his career, he’s barely scraped over 70 in either format of his 80+ AFL games. The Kangaroos have historically been a poor fantasy scoring side and then combine the fact he’s a tall defender, it doesn’t bode well that he’ll become that in 2021. Pass!
