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The Blues were one of the busiest movers in the trade period. But does the addition of Lewis Young have much of a fantasy footy impact?
Career High SuperCoach Score: 93 vs GWS (2019)
Career High SuperCoach Average: 65.5 (2018)
Career High AFLFantasy Score: 77 vs Gold Coast (2017)
Career High AFLFantasy Average: 52.2 (2019)
Impact on New Club
Watching Lewis Young play, I can’t help but think that he’s destined to be the ‘almost’ player at whatever AFL club he’s listed. There are moments where his effort and competitive endeavour are to be admired, but then others when he lets himself and his teammates down with poor decision making.
As a Carlton player, I don’t see him cracking into the best 22. In part because I’m not confident where they believe he fits. The forward ‘tall’ stocks should be filled with Harry McKay, Mitch McGovern and Charlie Curnow. Defensively, Jacob Weitering is the general with a supporting cast of talls, including Lachie Plowman, Caleb Marchbank, Tom Williamson, Luke Parks, and even Brodie Kemp.
Even though Lewis played through the ruck this year, I doubt Michael Voss will want to role him through there. The club has been apparent in the selection that Tom De Koning is the futureof their ruck division. The backup is Marc Pittonet, who won’t set the world on fire, but is still a significant improvement on what Lewis offers.
As versatile as Young is, I don’t see him being a best 22 option, and thus poor form or injuries to others will be his only way of AFL games in 2022 and beyond.
Impact on Old Club
The injury woes to ruckman Stefan Martin created a vacancy in the Bulldogs tall stocks. Despite being groomed as an intercepting defender, Lewis Young was deployed as the lead ruckman.
In his seven games this year, he tried valiantly, but in reality, he’s got neither the physical presence nor the experience to compete against the big rucks of the AFL. With Young moving on, the Bulldogs signed Jordan Sweet to a contract extension. Additionally, they’ve virtually replaced Young with the free agency pick up of Tim O’Brien.
The Bulldogs will pick up the best ‘tall’ player in the draft pool for the second year running, with Sam Darcy joining as a father/son. As a result of this and the free agency acquisitions, I see little impact on the club, even if Stefan Martin was injured again.
Fantasy Summary
The last and honestly only time that Lewis Young was fantasy relevant was back in 2017. There as a basement priced cash cow, he played the final seven games for the year. The money he freed up became valuable for coaches attempting to complete their salary cap sides in that season.
Since then, it’s been slim pickings for Young, and given his scoring history to date, he’s only ever been a daily fantasy or deep draft league option. Moving forward to his new club at Carlton, I don’t see a world where he becomes fantasy relevant. That’s even with a raft of injuries to their talls. So it’s a pass from me.
