Tom Green has so far been a very promising POD pick as one of those middle-range players whose youth and potential turns into premium scoring, the sort of player you must find in fantasy salary cap competitions and ride all the way to the prizes at the end of the season. He is certainly in the right age bracket and has obvious quality; the ongoing concern is that he has had the ability to go missing in games as other star Giants take more of the footy, leading to a scoring floor of less than premium levels. Can he keep it up for all of 2022?
Tom Green has so far been a very promising POD pick as one of those middle-range players whose youth and potential turns into premium scoring, the sort of player you must find in fantasy salary cap competitions and ride all the way to the prizes at the end of the season. He is certainly in the right age bracket and has obvious quality; the ongoing concern is that he has had the ability to go missing in games as other star Giants take more of the footy, leading to a scoring floor of less than premium levels. Can he keep it up for all of 2022?
Tom Green is one of the favourites for the Rising Star this year in what has been a breakout campaign for him, coming into a star-studded GWS engine room and showing he has enough to keep his spot. His body shape is the prototype for the modern midfielder, perhaps lacking top-line speed of the elites of the inside/outside mids but using his height to full advantage when resting forward to take contested grabs in dangerous positions. He is a workhorse not a sprinter, showing increasing endurance to move between contests. One to keep in fantasy leagues.
Tom Green has looked like the best player on the park at times in 2021, gliding through packs like Marcus Bontempelli at his best and also using his height to take contested grabs when resting forward. He has all the toys in a physical sense, with the height and strength to fit the template of the modern tall inside mid... consistency is the only thing that eludes him. He can go missing for long periods, like Dustin Martin used to and the Bont still does now. Fix that and Green could be the next big thing. Will you own him in fantasy when everything clicks?
Tom Green has a number of high-profile teammates rejoining him in the GWS engine room this year, and a lot of fantasy coaches will be watching to see if his breakout 2019 numbers are the real deal in a more fully populated midfield.
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It's almost bewildering that the ready-made Tom Green slipped into the draft's double digits, to the sheer delight of the coaching staff. The big-bodied Academy recruit has been described as the next Patrick Cripps, with numbers to match: 33 touches per game in the NAB League followed by 24 at the Championships. Slap on a ridiculous average of 10 clearances a game and it's easy to see a star in the making. Green will be a gun, there's no doubt about that. The immediate challenge is breaking into a star-studded midfield that welcomes back Callan Ward and Stephen Coniglio. He'll be taken early in legacy and keeper leagues, but for redraft leagues where short-term job security is the paramount concern you should keep this looming brute on the free agent watchlist should on-field vacancies open up.
