Sam Day has been brought onto the Brisbane Lions list after an off-season transfer from Gold Coast as a partial replacement for the role of the retired Joe Daniher. While it is Logan Morris who has been installed as full forward in Daniher's spot, the Lions have chosen not to also run him through ruck, so it is Day's role to support with rotations on ball while mostly in a forward pocket or on the bench. Day's career has been extremely long in time but short on senior appearances, due to injury and lack of fulfilling his first-rounder draft potential. A roleplayer non pareil.
Sam Day has been brought onto the Brisbane Lions list after an off-season transfer from Gold Coast as a partial replacement for the role of the retired Joe Daniher. While it is Logan Morris who has been installed as full forward in Daniher's spot, the Lions have chosen not to also run him through ruck, so it is Day's role to support with rotations on ball while mostly in a forward pocket or on the bench. Day's career has been extremely long in time but short on senior appearances, due to injury and lack of fulfilling his first-rounder draft potential. A roleplayer non pareil.
Half Day doesn't work
Selected as an emergency 11 times in the first three months of the season, key forward Sam Day improved his production upon return. Enjoying career-high disposal, mark and goal outputs, the Sun's highlight came against the Bombers in round 19, kicking three goals from 15 possessions. Following the dislocated hip injury which forced him to miss the 2017 season, Day has struggled to retain his role at AFL level. Never one to regularly trouble stats counters, look elsewhere for fantasy.
Sam Day is enjoying his best run of form in year eight at senior level, the first at the Suns without Tom J. Lynch sucking up all the oxygen in the forward line. The post-Lynch forward structure seems to be Day coming out of the square with Peter Wright at CHF in a more roaming role, which is a very modern footy set up and probably a better role for Day than the third tall forward role in years past where his involvement in play was fleeting at best. He has always had talent and desire, it has been his body that let him down. Hopefully he can hold down full forward for years to come.
A hard Day's life
Some players just have no luck at all. Sam Day was coming off a very nasty hip dislocation from the 2017 preseason and played a thankless forward role in a terrible side for a return of 9.5 from 12 games... then he injured his shoulder and had to go in for season-ending surgery. Day is one of those players whom everyone in footy just wants to see on the park, fit and wearing a seniors jumper. That includes fantasy coaches, even though his relevance to their competitions is virtually nil due to his position in the side. Best of British, Sam.
