Hugh Greenwood and the Kangaroos have come up against some highly-rated midfields this season, and apart from one day out against the decimated Eagles his personal statistical output has suffered as a consequence. His personal best fantasy output in 2021 in his last campaign for Gold Coast was predicated on an insane average of nine tackles per game and a healthy disposal ratio of 11:7. At North Melbourne, he gets more of the footy but handballs it more with a ration of 10:11, and has dropped two tackles. Perhaps the draw will even out through midseason.
Hugh Greenwood and the Kangaroos have come up against some highly-rated midfields this season, and apart from one day out against the decimated Eagles his personal statistical output has suffered as a consequence. His personal best fantasy output in 2021 in his last campaign for Gold Coast was predicated on an insane average of nine tackles per game and a healthy disposal ratio of 11:7. At North Melbourne, he gets more of the footy but handballs it more with a ration of 10:11, and has dropped two tackles. Perhaps the draw will even out through midseason.
Hugh Greenwood is just the sort of two-way runner that the Suns needed, and he proved it last week with a heap of tackles in a big win over his former club Adelaide. The headlines were taken by his Twitter stoush with Mark Ricciuto, but the story really is that he is a much more essential part of the Gold Coast midfield than he was allowed to be at the Crows. Freed up of forward rotations, Greenwood is thriving in a senior role amongst the younger but better skilled mavens. His fantasy scores are not bad either, with a nice base of tackles.
Green grass for Greenwood
A former US college basketballer and Adelaide Crow, imposing midfield/forward Hugh Greenwood arrives at the Suns ready to continue developing his oval ball craft. The former category B rookie selection ranked 30th across the competition for contested possessions, rating 20th the season prior. The ex-Crow added at least a major in 71% of appearances, kicking two against his new club in round 5. Greenwood enters the club capable in the midfield or as a roaming half forward, although he left Adelaide seeking further midfield minutes. Entering his fifth season on an AFL list and in his athletic prime, Greenwood can improve his statistical output with increased opportunity. Available as a forward selection, picking him through the mid rounds of the draft may prove cunning.
Hugh Greenwood spent the first part of 2019 playing as a key forward, in an attack that boasted the two-metre height of Ben Brown and not much else in the way of viable contested mark targets. In that role he put up some decent scores at times, but his average was way down from his previous position in the engine room. Two weeks ago he was shifted back to the centre, and his scoring rebounded accordingly. Now armed with forward classification in fantasy competitions and a pure midfield brief, he should make his way into a lot of fantasy teams this week.
Greenwood on a plateau
Like most of his teammates, Hugh Greenwood had an up and down kind of 2018. He was called upon to spend a lot more time in central midfield in the middle part of the season covering for an injury to Rory Sloane, then more on a HFF towards the end of the year when the band got back together. It all added up to much the same sort of fantasy output as his breakout debut season. Greenwood's role will devolve again if Brad Crouch returns to full fitness. His ceiling is just not large enough unless he changes a pattern based less on disposals and more on tackles as, like Scott Selwood, you need more leather than polyester in your hands to push beyond a fantasy ton average. Unless there's a new wrinkle in his coaching instructions visible in preseason, it's hard to see upside.
Greenwood burns out
A mature-aged convert from basketball, after a year and half of SANFL indoctrination Hugh Greenwood burst onto the senior scene in round 9 last season and was almost the Des Headland-style cream on top of a Crow premiership, eventually running out of gas and cruelled by a calf strain in the prelim. Ten of his average of 17 disposals were contested, but he only topped 20 thrice in 12 home & away games and not at all in three finals, with stat lines resembling that of Tom Liberatore. Another AFL-level preseason should do Greenwood's tank the world of good, as he has all the other tools to his game to make him a damaging player in an attacking team. His high tackle counts speak of an inside beast, though with Bryce Gibbs added to a star-studded engine room he may struggle to get rotations in the guts and instead used more off a HFF as a finisher. Fitness is his main concern, so he will be closely watched in preseason to gauge how much stamina he has added.
