Lachlan McNeil is one of those players that real AFL coaches love and fantasy coaches hate, an athlete whose main efforts are achieved without ball in hand to solve structural problems in the side without much reference to the small red leather thing. In games like today's at Docklands, in particular, he and Laitham Vandermeer are tasked with running wind sprints up and down the flanks to tire out their back flanker opponents, plus be the first to sprint back on fast breaks to be on the end of slingshot plays for easy goals. He stays in the Dogs' best 22 despite spare stat lines.
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