Jacob Van Rooyen has one of the more thankless roles in modern football: the second ruck coming off the bench to give spells to a dominant ruck (who also happens to be captain). Add that he is trying to live up to premiership-winning exploits of Luke Jackson as the previous Demon to fill that role, and the Roo has a lot of pressure on his still-young shoulders. He is a complete non-factor for fantasy, but that's not what his KPIs involve. His Q1 last week was highly impressive, but he went missing after that which is all too common with him. Still time to make an impression.
Jacob Van Rooyen has one of the more thankless roles in modern football: the second ruck coming off the bench to give spells to a dominant ruck (who also happens to be captain). Add that he is trying to live up to premiership-winning exploits of Luke Jackson as the previous Demon to fill that role, and the Roo has a lot of pressure on his still-young shoulders. He is a complete non-factor for fantasy, but that's not what his KPIs involve. His Q1 last week was highly impressive, but he went missing after that which is all too common with him. Still time to make an impression.
Jacob Van Rooyen is a high draft pick about whom there has never been a huge amount of buzz, especially not in comparison to Luke Jackson whose role he replaced as the key forward chopping out Max Gawn as second ruck. He may lack LJax's acceleration but you don't need to be a gazelle in that role, just don't let the side down and get dangerous as a target inside 50 to take pressure off the big blokes playing up the spine. Melbourne's premiership window seems a long way away given their internal troubles, but van Rooyen has enough time to be there when the wheel turns.
