Josh Kelly has been an A-grade midfielder for a long time for GWS, without ever putting together a full season to maximise his obvious potential. Part of the problem may have been figuring out where to use him, and coach Adam Kingsley has tried in recent weeks starting him on a wing and shifting Finn Callaghan into the center. This has led to some excellent finishing work by Kelly in the front half, and may be the role best suited to his one-wood of gliding across the turf in transition and using his exquisite kicking skills. A fantasy tease who will always promise greatness.
Josh Kelly has been an A-grade midfielder for a long time for GWS, without ever putting together a full season to maximise his obvious potential. Part of the problem may have been figuring out where to use him, and coach Adam Kingsley has tried in recent weeks starting him on a wing and shifting Finn Callaghan into the center. This has led to some excellent finishing work by Kelly in the front half, and may be the role best suited to his one-wood of gliding across the turf in transition and using his exquisite kicking skills. A fantasy tease who will always promise greatness.
Josh Kelly has been a disappointment this season, as have most of his teammates as Leon Cameron's coaching stint at the Giants finally bit the dust. His fantasy value was always based on his potential, and he has always been capable of monster scores, but his scoring floor is way too low for him to be considered a premium even though fantasy coaches keep on going back to the well searching for that one season where he puts it all together. It may never come for this GWS group, and players like Kelly may never become their best selves.
Josh Kelly has always been a tease, much like his club the Greater Western Sydney Giants. He has high quality, that much is clear, with a scoring ceiling almost as high as anyone on his day. His floor is disappointingly low, however, and he tends to get injured and miss half a dozen games per year. He hasn't put together a full season of top 8 midfielder scoring since 2017, though fantasy coaches with long memories keep buying him in the hope that he will some day put it all together on a pumpkin and charcoal wave to a debut Giants flag. That day may never come at this rate.
Josh Kelly has always shown himself to be a player of consummate quality with a complete game, presenting on both inside and outside with polished skills and work rate to match. Apart from his injury history - a problem for many Greater Western Sydney stars - for fantasy coaches he has always threatened to be a top 8 premium mid but has never quite strung a full season together, as well as lacking that last bit of accumulation that a rolled gold asset needs. Perhaps this will be the campaign that he puts it all together... we keep waiting.
Josh Kelly is obviously one of the most talented midfielders in the league at the moment, but you don't get stats on talent and fantasy coaches who are eyeing him off as a potential top eight mid for their salary cap sides would love a little higher floor on his scoring. He is the archetypal inside/outside midfielder but can go missing at times when the flow of the game is not to his liking, which is an accusation that can sometimes be levelled at the Giants as a whole. He is more of a quality over quantity operator, to his detriment for fantasy usage.
Josh Kelly is a hot tip for the Brownlow this year, coming off a frustrating campaign where he wasn't immune to the injury curse that struck many of his other highly-credentialled Giant teammates. His ceiling is certainly high enough to put him in the top echelon, we are just yet to see him string it together for a full slate of games. Perhaps 2020 is the year.
Are you ready for this Jelly?
Scoring 100+ points in 72.2% of games and 120 or more almost half his outings, Josh Kelly produced yet another explosive campaign. He topped the club and finished seventh across the league for average fantasy score, thanks to a beast-like purple patch in his first 11 matches. A calf injury (and a grand final loss) soured his success late. Kelly is in the prime of his career and is certain to pump out returns similar to his last three years: 112.9, 108.4 and 115.9. A ceiling unlike many others makes him all the more desirable, although make sure you've got appropriate bench cover as the superstar has missed 13 games over the past two seasons. Take him early.
Josh Kelly has been forgotten about a little in fantasy circles with most of the attention going on Lachie Whitfield and Stephen Coniglio. In the Galactico-sized Giants midfield he may be the best of the lot of them, though it will be interesting to see if the umpires agree on Brownlow night. His game is slightly more based on quality than quantity, which is why he is behind the very top echelon of fantasy scorers, but plenty of coaches will be eyeing him off as a POD player as he helps carry the load for the absent Callan Ward.
Josh Kelly has taken a bit of a back seat this season in assessments of GWS's midfield as he missed the first few rounds and has been outshone by teammate Lachlan Whitfield, but he has posted two fantasy tons in a row and looms as a strong candidate to finish in or very near the top eight midfielders by season's end. The late start meant he wasn't in many fantasy teams and is now a POD, though that will be less the case as the season wears on if he keeps up this form. He should feast upon the undermanned and youthful Dockers today.
Josh Kelly is one of the most highly-owned players in fantasy football this year and you probably would have had to burn a first-round pick on him if you really wanted him in private draft leagues. In a Giants midfield lacking Dylan Shiel and without Ward or Kelly for the first two rounds through injury, he was the leader and delivered excellent scores. Kelly's return this week takes some pressure off, and his thousands of owners will hope he can keep up a cracking pace to justify all the resources they used to get in him their sides.
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A six-week groin injury was the only blip on another stellar season for Josh Kelly, as the superstar midfielder continued to demonstrate superb form throughout the season. The injury failed to slow Kelly when out on the park, recording 499 metres gained per game to rank sixth in the league. Combined with the third-most inside 50s per game, the best and fairest winner was instrumental to their ball movement. While the Tom Scully departure is of little significance, Dylan Shiel’s move has altered the Giants 2019 midfield plan as they have to replace his four and a half clearances per game. With Kelly most effective outside of the stoppage, increased roles for Jacob Hopper and Tim Taranto may be more rational. Selection late in the first round or early second would be wise.
