Discarded by Richmond after they secured the services of Tom J. Lynch to play centre half forward, Jacob Townsend joins this third club with a brief to return to his original Giants roots as an inside midfielder, rotating out of the forward line. He averaged a goal from 18 touches with seven tackles last year in the VFL at a rate of 89 fantasy points, though he has never consistently reproduced that sort of form at senior level, 2017 flag run notwithstanding. Townsend will have a lot of focus on him from salary cap leagues due to the year out of the senior level, and if it looks like he makes it to the round 1 Dons team then he's going to be popular amongst fantasy coaches. In draft leagues, however, you would need to have faith that he's going to play the majority of games, which would require a fabulous Marsh series. Someone in your league probably should burn a low-value pick on him for the narrow upside.
Take me to funky Towna?
Discarded by Richmond after they secured the services of Tom J. Lynch to play centre half forward, Jacob Townsend joins this third club with a brief to return to his original Giants roots as an inside midfielder, rotating out of the forward line. He averaged a goal from 18 touches with seven tackles last year in the VFL at a rate of 89 fantasy points, though he has never consistently reproduced that sort of form at senior level, 2017 flag run notwithstanding. Townsend will have a lot of focus on him from salary cap leagues due to the year out of the senior level, and if it looks like he makes it to the round 1 Dons team then he's going to be popular amongst fantasy coaches. In draft leagues, however, you would need to have faith that he's going to play the majority of games, which would require a fabulous Marsh series. Someone in your league probably should burn a low-value pick on him for the narrow upside.
Get out of Townsend
A premiership medal playing CHF for Richmond earned Jacob Townsend another half a season in the seniors before he was dropped to the VFL. He reappeared in round 19 then was dropped again two weeks later, and had his season finished at the lower level with a broken leg. Townsend was shopped around, delisted and re-rookied, which is an indication of what the league thinks of his worth as a pressure key forward despite the shiny jewellery. The recruitment of Tom J. Lynch is the obvious nail in the coffin of his career.
Townsend's wonder world
Pushed out of the Tiger midfield at the start of the year by the likes of Dion Prestia, Jacob Townsend played out what looked like a middling year in the VFL until suddenly he was vaulted back into the seniors to play... a tagging CHF? What the, Dimma! But he booted 11 goals in the last two home & away games and five in finals, so he provided scoreboard pressure as well even though his disposal and mark tallies in September were very low. This entirely new position is difficult to figure out for fantasy purposes. We have the example of big bags of goals in two routs against teams that had long since been knocked out of finals contention. Then we have the finals, where the role involved not much at all in the way of ball in hand, except the rare goalscoring opportunity. The likelihood is that if Townsend sticks out in that position, September is a better yardstick and thus he won't be consistently startable.
