Player Watch #11: Luke "Two Dogs" McDonald - signed until end 2021

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czero

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I'd like to apologise Luke - due to the coaches choice to not play any more of our young defenders you have been forced to stop your dreams of being a midfielder.

SORRY MATE - off to the back-line with you. We need more inside midfielders and tall forwards. We are trying this new radical trick, as the competition goes small and fast, we are going to go back to the 70s and 80s, where a man was a man, and a forward pocket was a forward pocket.

Your dreams can't stand in the way of progre... erm, regress!
 

the big lebowski

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It's been a largely positive year from Luke

2 things he needs to work on, 1 more important than the other.

1: fitness. I hope he realises how important he is to the club he loves. If he does he will make a concerted effort to improve his fitness levels over the pre season. As it stands it's not good enough, esp if he wants to be a mid (and let's be honest we need him too)

2: sometimes you don't need to do the most attacking thing you can think of Luke. Sometimes it's ok to be conservative
 

ripperpart

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Always defended Luke and at the end of last year I started to believe that he was just going to be a underage gun who turned into an avarage afl player.
He tries his guts out and with the added strength thats building he is now really looking like a potential A grader.
You would go to battle with this kid.
 

shintemaster

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Will be interesting to see what they do with Luke over the next pre season. He's growing into his body more and more, with midfield time I feel like there may come a point where we make a decision between retaining an extra 2-3kgs of muscle and playing him as a mid / utility or dropping that weight and playing him more as a genuine mid option full time. I guess it will depend a lot on what other players we bring in.
 

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breeno

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Lukes best game for the club as he was allowed to play a more natural position.

Real shining light.
Yep, enough of this natural midfielder apprenticeship in defence business. The 'apprenticeship', if it was ever needed in the first place, is over. Luke is a midfielder now and has shown more this year - even when he was just rotating through there - than all of our starting mids bar Cunnington.
 

roos_fanatic08

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Back to the form he showed against Adelaide....seriously good game.

The issue still is is that the really good games are still too far apart.

His left peg going inside forward 50 is a serious weapon, he gets the pill inside 50 from the defensive side of the wing.
 
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