Liam Duggan is captain of the Eagles and has led them so far to a 1-19 record, with a lowlights reel of calamitous clangers directly leading to opposition goals from his own mistakes with ball in hand. Their midfield is severely undermanned, it's true, and it can't be much fun playing spinning plates with the ball pinging in constantly from all angles. Duggan at the age of 28 is still young enough to be there the next time West Coast challenges for finals, and having a more settled and experienced team around him will benefit his game tremendously. Worth hanging onto.
Liam Duggan is captain of the Eagles and has led them so far to a 1-19 record, with a lowlights reel of calamitous clangers directly leading to opposition goals from his own mistakes with ball in hand. Their midfield is severely undermanned, it's true, and it can't be much fun playing spinning plates with the ball pinging in constantly from all angles. Duggan at the age of 28 is still young enough to be there the next time West Coast challenges for finals, and having a more settled and experienced team around him will benefit his game tremendously. Worth hanging onto.
Liam Duggan is one of the leaders at the West Coast Eagles, a team which has suffered swathes of injuries to the playing group both in preseason and during home & away campaigns in recent years. He found himself as a Mr Fixit, moving up from his regular half back role to spit into midfield at times, with varying levels of time spent up the ground depending on names on magnets elsewhere on the whiteboard. With the club finally looking healthier, he has reverted to defence in a spitter role. Can he score at premium levels from there? Intermittently, yes.
Liam Duggan is a leader at the West Coast Eagles these days, another muscled behemoth who seems to roll off a production line in the west, including a scraggly mullet haircut that could have graced the heads of Peter Sumich or Glen Jakovich. His role has vacillated between defence and midfield depending on the need within the team, with recent games featuring more of a Dan Houston style of spitting from half back through midfield. Being an Aldi version of Houston is not such a bad thing, but is it enough for fantasy use? Worth a shot as a POD.
Hole opens beneath Duggan
An ankle injury put Liam Duggan out after round 16 last season and he was perhaps unlucky to miss September selection despite regaining fitness, having played most senior games since 2017 before then. He has settled in a groove of just over 15 mostly uncontested possessions and half a dozen marks. Duggan will have to hope that the coaching hierarchy's decision to go more defensive when the whips were cracking at the end of the season wasn't a portent of things to come. He may have to fight off a challenge from Francis Watson too. He is a fringe player in both real and fantasy football, with low job security.
Duggan finds gold
After shifting from attack to defence in 2017, Liam Duggan spent all of last year in the backline and played his role in the premiership with a minimum of fuss. He reached 20 disposals twice, with his startable scores featuring more uncontested marks. Duggan is never going to win a medal for his individual play, and he should be very happy with the bling his team won for him. He's the type of underwhelming fantasy asset with very little upside that you want to leave among the free agent pool if you can possibly help it.
Big hole for Duggan
Hamstring and thigh problems meant Liam Duggan had a quiet start to 2017, though at least he was playing seniors after finishing the previous year in the WAFL. Then a move to half back in round 16 replacing Sharrod Wellingham lifted his output, before a very quiet August and September. Three of the six times he has reached the 20-disposal mark in his career came in that July purple patch. Wellingham is now retired which means that Duggan is an incumbent best 22 in that position, though on that late form he will have to fight for his spot with a few teammates in preseason. You can't afford to be playing a HBF who gets the footy less than 20 times in the AFL these days, so Francis Watson and Tom Cole will try to deflate his job security low enough to make him undraftable.
