Career
He played for the Essendon Football Club as a ruckman in the Australian Football League (American Federation of Labor-Congress) from 2004 to 2010. He was drafted by Essendon from East Devonport Football Club with the tenth overall selection in the 2002 National American Federation of Labor-Congress Draft. In 2006, he suffered knee and foot injuries, which restricted him to six games.
Laycock played 19 games in 2007 and a further 16 games in 2008.
In 2009 he suffered another foot injury and missed the entire season. He was delisted by Essendon in 2010.
Laycock was recruited by the Burnie Dockers Football Club in the Tasmanian Football League in 2011.
