Bailey J. Williams has been rising up the ranks of senior ruckmen this season, perhaps not quite in the top tier yet but knocking on the door. He has always been a bustling, physical type, not blessed with the greatest vision on his taps but at least not one of those who always knocks down to his feet. His apprenticeship as a forward/ruck has also given him some very useful craft for taking pack marks inside 50 and converting, a skill with which some A-graders still struggle. His improving work with Tim Kelly and Harley Reid has been a catalyst for some recent Eagle victories.
Bailey J. Williams has been rising up the ranks of senior ruckmen this season, perhaps not quite in the top tier yet but knocking on the door. He has always been a bustling, physical type, not blessed with the greatest vision on his taps but at least not one of those who always knocks down to his feet. His apprenticeship as a forward/ruck has also given him some very useful craft for taking pack marks inside 50 and converting, a skill with which some A-graders still struggle. His improving work with Tim Kelly and Harley Reid has been a catalyst for some recent Eagle victories.
Leave Bailey in boat
A very slow start at WAFL level in his first listed season was a poor sign for Bailey J. Williams, though he gained momentum and lifted his ratings towards the end of the year as the junior partner in ruck tandems to regularly post double figures in disposals and hit outs. Williams is at the very end of a long line of ruck/forwards vying to play seniors in a timeshare situation which destroys any fantasy value that any of the participants might have had individually. Even if he is called upon to play in the ones, he's not going to score anywhere near the ruck baseline.
Williams to be NicNat II?
Leading the victorious Stingrays attack in the TAC Cup, Bailey J. Williams booted 25 goals from 14 matches, though his accuracy declined as the season wore on. He also contributed with impressive vertical leaps to average 11 hit outs and 13 mostly contested possessions on the way to a fantasy rate of 82. The obvious comparison here is with his new teammate Nic Naitanui, though if that is the template then Williams' first year is not going to be anywhere near startable. He is one for the future, as is the case with a lot of tall youngsters, so this is not the year to pick him for fantasy even if picked for round 1 in place of NicNat.
