Revitalised defender Liam Jones ranked fifth across the league for one percenters per game. Unfortunately, that doesn't translate into fantasy points. His coaches would have been happy with his team-first defensive mindset, particularly when he kept Lance Franklin to two goals. Jones will have fully overcome the fractured larynx that saw him miss the tail end of 2019 so should slide into the key defensive role alongside Jacob Weitering. That doesn't mean that you should draft him, though. He's never been fantasy-relevant and never will be.
Will Liam get it started?
Revitalised defender Liam Jones ranked fifth across the league for one percenters per game. Unfortunately, that doesn't translate into fantasy points. His coaches would have been happy with his team-first defensive mindset, particularly when he kept Lance Franklin to two goals. Jones will have fully overcome the fractured larynx that saw him miss the tail end of 2019 so should slide into the key defensive role alongside Jacob Weitering. That doesn't mean that you should draft him, though. He's never been fantasy-relevant and never will be.
Jones plays lone hand
It's not much fun playing full back for Carlton these days. Liam Jones has made the position his own, for better or worse, and managed to finish top four for onepercenters (i.e. spoils) last season, implying he faced a heap of supply to his man. The club felt comfortable enough with Jones as a bookend to delist 30-year-old Sam Rowe in the off season, though they are grooming Levi Casboult to play a similar role. His personal fantasy output is nowhere near startable.
Glass shoe fits for Jones
It was the most unlikely Cinderella story: Liam Jones not only playing senior footy again, but becoming a formidable key defender with the scalps of Jonathon Patton, Thomas Lynch and Taylor Walker in a dominant run of six midseason games. His last six were less impressive, as Tom Hawkins, Josh J. Kennedy and Lance Franklin got hold of him. Jones' awakening would have surprised Oliver Sacks. It is perhaps unfair to judge that he lapsed back into catatonia at the end of 2017, as he was subjected to supply levels greater than El Chapo. His fantasy relevance is only in tracking his form to gauge whether to start his opponent, as he is likely to get the best forward again in future.
