Retired #22: Matthew Leuenberger - offered a new deal but chose to retire - 24/10
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yaco55
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Leunberger is here to play - Laughed when he said ' I am not a forward ' - He'll be number one ruck.
MAAAATTDAAAAMON
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Think he'd look better in 22 IMO
Reardo
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This bloke is a star both on and off the field. I have no doubt he'll smash it for you guys, he's got game. All the best.
Whispering_Jack
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Nice signature.
Absolutely.
Need to look the part of professionals and not like a pack of shirts out, socks down, tattooed louts.
He's still number two.
Belchambers is merely outsourcing 80% of the number 1 ruck duties.
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Very excited by this, even more due to the fact he nominated us as his club of choice.
Doug Tassell
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Says he is mates with Belly
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Bellchambers is s**t and useless
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Can't help but wonder just how much Luenberger changes the gameplan that Worsefold has in mind.
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Essendon get 100 odd kilos of luey to the club and Jake leaves.
Coincidence?
Coincidence?
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didnt worsfold sound him out just after he became coach? i would think he already has a pretty good idea
duckdog
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Hadn't watched the highlight reel until now and I know yeah yeah it's the best bits but he's got a lovely deft touch to advantage. Not a smash it long every chance type.( that's probably obvious to the initiated too) Our current mids should relish this. And he actually wants to play ruck full on, pretty rare now
What is often overlooked is we could easily go into next year with a rough midfield make-up of Leuenberger, Watson, Hocking, Heppell, Myers, Colyer, Z. Merrett.
Okay so it was only like the last 6 games for Merrett, but besides that and Heppell, the rest of them basically missed at very least half of last season. We played without a midfield.
That's most of our ball winners. And I don't like leaving the outside pace to too few, but Colyer, Merrett and Fantasia isn't a slow trio.
We'll still struggle to kick a score, but the whole "We're not as bad as our ladder position suggests" is certainly not just blowing smoke.
Okay so it was only like the last 6 games for Merrett, but besides that and Heppell, the rest of them basically missed at very least half of last season. We played without a midfield.
That's most of our ball winners. And I don't like leaving the outside pace to too few, but Colyer, Merrett and Fantasia isn't a slow trio.
We'll still struggle to kick a score, but the whole "We're not as bad as our ladder position suggests" is certainly not just blowing smoke.
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Hes our new #1 ruck
It's just going to be nice to have a competitive ruck playing for us. We had a whole season without 1 this year.]
He won't be the best ruck in the comp, but he will compete.
He won't be the best ruck in the comp, but he will compete.
If he stays on the park for long periods, he's going to be absolutely wonderful for us. His talent is unquestionable, durability is the only issue.
Jade
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Can play.
Smack forward.
Smack forward.
This is where I'm at too.
Bloked turned up to training today.
Not sure how common this is, but thought it was great he came in earlier than he was due back.
Not sure how common this is, but thought it was great he came in earlier than he was due back.
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