What Role Is Richmond Really Building Liam Fawcett For?
RTSSG’s full member feature The Role That Hasn’t Been Invented Yet: What Do We Really Have With Liam Fawcett? asks a deeper Richmond question.
Liam Fawcett has enough obvious tools to make the first question easy: can he play? The more useful question is harder — what exactly is Richmond trying to make him become?
At 197cm, with strong hands and unusual movement for his size, does he project as a permanent key forward? Could he become part of the ruck mix? Or does his value depend on being able to move between jobs?
How much should supporters read into weekly selection when the player himself may still be learning several versions of the role?
And how does Fawcett fit with the other developing Richmond talls? Does his future depend on who becomes the primary key target, who rucks, and what shape the forward line eventually takes?
The biggest question may not be whether he deserves a place now. It may be whether Richmond is already developing a job that will only make sense once the rest of the young spine settles around him.
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