Lachlan Plowman is one of the only key defenders left uninjured at Carlton, and that is bad news for the club as they seek make the well-established jump from 13th straight into the heart of a finals campaign the next year. Jacob Weitering has become the fulcrum to a pretty decent defence in a side that is definitely a contender for September, but injures to him and almost every other defender 190cm or above has left the Blue wall fairly leaky. Plowman is an average to poor defender himself, and if he's still in the side in late August the Blues are in a spot of bother.
Lachlan Plowman is one of the only key defenders left uninjured at Carlton, and that is bad news for the club as they seek make the well-established jump from 13th straight into the heart of a finals campaign the next year. Jacob Weitering has become the fulcrum to a pretty decent defence in a side that is definitely a contender for September, but injures to him and almost every other defender 190cm or above has left the Blue wall fairly leaky. Plowman is an average to poor defender himself, and if he's still in the side in late August the Blues are in a spot of bother.
Do you wanna draft a Plowman?
As Carlton's Mr Fix-it, Lachie Plowman subdued the impact of both talls and smalls on his way to finishing third in the best and fairest. Thanks to an increase in kicks he produced a career-best fantasy average with a few patches of 80s to tease us, juxtaposed with irrelevant 30s and 40s. Plowman will easily hold his spot in David's Teague's youthful back line in 2020 but don't let job security fool you; the ex-Giant doesn't play the accumulator role so isn't worth a spot in our defensive stocks.
Don't have a Plowman
A run of missing only two games in nearly three years came to an end for Lachlan Plowman with a medial ligament strain in round 13 last season, though it did not delay his preseason. He has become the Blues' first-choice CHB, with very little licence to create on the rebound. News in preseason that Levi Casboult was being trialled in defence was more about a surfeit of options up forward, not a commentary on Plowman's performance. If that is a direct positional battle in preseason, neither of those gentlemen will interest fantasy coaches in that role.
That name again is Mr Plowman
Playing 40 of 44 games since transferring from GWS, Lachlan Plowman was mostly given one-on-one roles in defence on talls and smalls, where he was never badly beaten and took some scalps as well. His rare startable games tended to feature uncontested marks. Plowman's talents as a stopper seem to be more valuable to the team than on the rebound. The injury to Sam Docherty will not change that, and his development is likely to focus more on the defensive aspects of his position. His fantasy relevance comes through his ongoing presence enabling those around him to create.
