Jones Scored 111 Away From Home. GWS Only Scored 71.

Three games back from ACL. Output escalating: 86→57→111. The avoid-all-season narrative was right until Round 8. It isn't anymore.

Darcy Jones posted 111 in GWS's 17-point away loss at Perth Stadium in Round 10. GWS as a team scored 71 AFL points. Jones outscored his own club. That is not garbage time — that is a genuine individual performance in a losing team, in an away game, in Perth.

Should I Trade In Darcy Jones After ACL Return?

The intel said avoid from Round 0 through Round 7. The reasoning was clean: ACL recovery with no confirmed return date, $398.5k price tag doing zero work, 59 BE burning a forward slot on a player not taking the field. The avoids were correct.

Then Round 8 happened. First game back: 86 in a 20-point loss where GWS only managed 63 AFL points. Registry called buy.

Round 9 was the test. 57 — 2 below his 59 BE in his second game back. The question was fair: settling-in dip or genuine concern? Verdict went to watch. Two games post-ACL is too early to call direction either way.

Round 10 answered it. 111. Away from home. Perth. Losing side.

Darcy Jones SuperCoach 2026 Post-ACL Data

Three games back: 86, 57, 111. The R9 dip is the outlier now, not the R8 or R10 scores.

What moved the needle in R10:

• Context: Away game, losing side, Perth Stadium. 111 in those conditions is earned scoring, not opportunity scoring.
• Role: Locked GWS FWD. The role question was the big unknown coming back from ACL. It's answered — he's in the best 22 and not sharing a forward spot.
• Team output: GWS scored 71 AFL points total. Jones scored 111 SC points. Extraordinary individual contribution in a poor team performance.
• Trajectory: 86→57→111 is not flat. It is an escalating return.

Darcy Jones Price and Breakeven R11 2026

Price: $398.5k. BE: 59. He's cleared it in two of three games back from ACL.

The pricing hasn't updated from his pre-season entry price yet — he was absent rounds 1 through 7 and cash gen is still showing stalled while the pricing model catches up. Effectively you're buying a player now averaging 85 across his three-game return at a price set before any of that production happened.

Buy. The ACL cloud is gone. The role is locked. The output is escalating. Wait and see for me ended in Round 10.

Updated: 21 May 2026. Data sourced from RookieBible intel registry.

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