Dayne Zorko put in another workmanlike performance in Brisbane's win over a gallant West Coast at home last week, not doing much in the way of contested work but acting as the designated kicker off half back and racking up touches. One wonders if a disciplined side like Geelong will put a forward tagger on him, albeit tonight's game will be rain-drenched so uncontested possessions will be difficult enough. Perhaps tonight will not be one to suit Zorko's undoubted talents, or maybe his ability to accumulate will be unaffected by the conditions.
Dayne Zorko put in another workmanlike performance in Brisbane's win over a gallant West Coast at home last week, not doing much in the way of contested work but acting as the designated kicker off half back and racking up touches. One wonders if a disciplined side like Geelong will put a forward tagger on him, albeit tonight's game will be rain-drenched so uncontested possessions will be difficult enough. Perhaps tonight will not be one to suit Zorko's undoubted talents, or maybe his ability to accumulate will be unaffected by the conditions.
Dayne Zorko has had one of the least boring careers of any player in the league, filled with incident, highs, lows, scandals, big wins, terrible stories in the press... but not yet a premiership medal. He normally plays the forward-mid role beloved of modern coaching philosophy but has had to move to a back flank to cover a huge raft of injuries at Brisbane, and seems destined to stay there for the time being to use his powers of accumulation to great effect. Normally, fantasy coaches would baulk at his age, but his ceiling is getting too hard to ignore.
Dayne Zorko has had a very productive stint moving from a half forward flank to a back flank in recent weeks, covering long-term injury to Keidean Coleman. While he doesn't have the skily disposal skills of Kiddy, Zorko does possess a seriously high work rate, even in his travels towards the twilight of his career. His statistical output has been good enough to draw interest from fantasy coaches, but that might be about to change with Conor McKenna returning to the Brisbane lineup. If you bought him on the rise, watch for the coming dip.
Dayne Zorko has struggled with injury this year, hobbling through entire games as he regained match fitness and under an injury cloud again this week. He spent much of the first half of the season coming off half back to protect him from the rough and tumble of the engine room, but in recent weeks he has reverted to his preferred role and restored his very high scoring ceiling. While his floor is still too low to make him an out and out premium he is very capable of a huge number on his day to make it worth your while... if he can maintain his body to round 23.
Dayne Zorko is probably the player you most want to sit on at Brisbane when looking through the eyes of an opposition analyst, with Lachie Neale harder to clamp down in with his inside game and Hugh McCluggage not quite there yet with the damage of his game. Neale is a fantasy gun, but with Zorko his owners have to keep a close eye on the potential target on his back from taggers who want to prevent his inside-outside run breaking lines and setting up scores.
Zip! Zap! Zoom! Zorko!
The Lions skipper continued to demonstrate his astonishing football prowess, Dayne Zorko proving key to the club's rise. Attaining 22 touches and nearly seven tackles per game, Zorko finished equal tenth in the Brownlow Medal. He ranked inside the top 20 in score involvements with over six per game. Age is the sole question mark on an otherwise expectation-laden Zorko fantasy season. Missing a mere four games over the previous seven seasons, durability is favourable for the diminutive Lion. Selection after the first few rounds will prove value.
Spell broken for Zorko
By round six of last season, fantasy coaches who drafted Dayne Zorko in the first round thought they had a bust on their hands. Constant tags plus a few knocks had beaten his form down so badly that five of his first six scores were below the midfielder baseline. A massive outing in a shootout against Steele Sidebottom kickstarted his season with a score of 176, two weeks later he inherited the captaincy from Dayne Beams, and Zorko's All-Australian volume was back. Zorko turns 30 just before the season starts, which is not as fearsome a milestone for midfielders as it is for talls. A public breakup with his wife in the off season wouldn't have helped, but being handed the captaincy seemed to have been a boon for his footy. It's always hard to predict changes in form that seem more based on attitude than fitness, so there are no guarantees that he won't have another blip. Nevertheless, he should be drafted early once again.
Dayne Zorko had a poor start to 2018 with a few knocks and a few tags limiting his output to only one fantasy ton from the first six games... then announced his resurgence with 34 touches and four goals against the Magpies. He will no doubt cop the Ben Jacobs tag today, but he was good enough to beat George Hewett last week to post a very respectable score. Many coaches in AFL Fantasy, AFL Dream Team and AFL Supercoach are jumping on board the Zorko bandwagon as his price is still depressed to to early woes, and they will ride it high today.
No tricks, Zorko is for real
Fully deserving of his first All-Australian jumper last year, Dayne Zorko cemented his status as a top five inside/outside midfielder, second in metres gained while also top 10 for tackles. His best work is done on the outside, with numbers across the board very similar to Dustin Martin with slightly less attack and a bit more run. His scoreboard haul of 34.27 was ahead of Martin and behind Patrick Dangerfield among midfielders. Zorko will probably get more tagging attention this year with Tom Rockliff gone, though it isn't likely to affect him as he can run it out better than just about anyone. He can put in the odd shocker, as in the GWS and Richmond games last season, and can also compile gargantuan scores to win your league match single-handed. He should be drafted with confidence in the first round.
