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

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But he was top 5 in 2017. Must have done it with a limp. And that in turn was rewarded with a 3 yr contract in a year he was playing poorly. Wrong call. Good luck to him.
So you would have sacked him last year instead of signing him for about average wage?

Jesus we would have been even softer this year.
 

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Do you want me to post several gifs of other players doing the same thing multiple times in a game? Including members of the leadership group and some of most renowned players?
No thanks.

I know we have more than 1 player that is sh1t.

Jamie "turnstiles" Macmillan has about 3 hrs of video footage proving his "elite" at being shit.

This discussion is about Luke Macdonald.

And I am sorry, if you think we should respect and support a player, just because they play for NMFC.

Fact. We wasted pick 8 on a player who cant kick on his opposite foot. Who isn't fit enough to play on ball. And who is definitely not a match winner.

Meanwhile, a player like Z Merrett, who we could have had at pick 8, is playing terrific footy for the Bombers.

And lets not mention P. Cripps.

He had an up and down 2018. So what does the club do ? It rewards him with 3 more years !

Would the Pies, Hawks, Richmond given a good VFL player, 3 more years ?

And then we wonder why NMFC are on the bottom of the ladder !!!
 

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No thanks.

I know we have more than 1 player that is sh1t.

Jamie "turnstiles" Macmillan has about 3 hrs of video footage proving his "elite" at being shit.

This discussion is about Luke Macdonald.

And I am sorry, if you think we should respect and support a player, just because they play for NMFC.

Fact. We wasted pick 8 on a player who cant kick on his opposite foot. Who isn't fit enough to play on ball. And who is definitely not a match winner.

Meanwhile, a player like Z Merrett, who we could have had at pick 8, is playing terrific footy for the Bombers.

And lets not mention P. Cripps.

He had an up and down 2018. So what does the club do ? It rewards him with 3 more years !

Would the Pies, Hawks, Richmond given a good VFL player, 3 more years ?

And then we wonder why NMFC are on the bottom of the ladder !!!

What about Higgins, Cunnington, Ziebell, Wright, Atley, Tarrant?

Everyone gets wrong footed and nearly everyone in the side has had multiple efforts like that one you mentioned against Freo so far this year.
 
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What about Higgins, Cunnington, Ziebell, Wright, Atley, Tarrant?

Everyone gets wrong footed and nearly everyone in the side has had multiple efforts like that one you mentioned against Freo so far this year.
This is a really good point.

Higgins sits 5m off the pack and watches as his opponent wrongfoots Ben Cunnington and gets off a pressure free inside 50 delivery. Said delivery goes to McDonald's man, who manages to win a hard fought one on one, and the crowd goes bananas at Luke for 'costing the team a goal'.

It's almost impossible to judge our backline or forward line with what's going on in the middle of the ground right now.
 

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Because he keeps fighting for the ball, unlike a bunch of players last Friday.
Fighting for the ball (trying to win the ball) is that what your regarding as heart?

Is this correct?

Because if it is....you’ve just described the vast majority of AFL players.
 

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Maybe but where the **** was it on Friday last week?
Winning the ball? It was there....it’s there most weeks.

The execution ie kicking a lot of behinds, clangers, turn overs, handballs finding the feet and players not educated enough by the coaches to know what to do is what is hurting us. Not this lack of heart/effort. I see teams rip us apart with accurate use of the ball, using the corridor.....and we just kick it long or down the boundary line.
 

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Winning the ball? It was there....it’s there most weeks.

The execution ie kicking a lot of behinds, clangers, turn overs, handballs finding the feet and players not educated enough by the coaches to know what to do is what is hurting us. Not this lack of heart/effort. I see teams rip us apart with accurate use of the ball, using the corridor.....and we just kick it long or down the boundary line.
No. Last week we didn't try. We dropped our heads and played weak football. It was terrible.
 
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