Player Watch #9: Luke Davies-Uniacke [Part II] - [Herald Sun] LDU has parked contract talks with the club & is expected to command offers of more than $1m a season

[RightWingRoo]

God this campaigner is a horrible kick of the footy.
Has the moves out of the stoppage, but just turns it over far too often. Gave me the s***s tonight

 

[Sir Hop A Lot]

Hearing he’s off to Sydney at seasons end!

 

[TheKanga]

May be jumping at shadows but his body language seems off.

 

[TheKanga]

Can’t understand why people would be happy to lose him.

Not happy about it, I'm pissed off
But if he doesn't want to be here than we are better off having players who are invested.

 

[bennymate]

Hearing he’s off to Sydney at seasons end!

Can see this, better to trade him now and maximize value.

 

[trooroo4life]

Hearing he’s off to Sydney at seasons end!

Won’t leave Victoria. Goes back to Rye every chance he gets to be around and help out his mum. I’d be stunned if he left the state.

 

[Uncle_Leo]

Fraud.

Go away.

 

[Slamming Sam]

Not directed at you, but for the 100,000th time, we have already used our priority picks for this year.

We are not getting any more.

At the end of this year, peanut!

 

[Slamming Sam]

I was referring to the end of this year.

 

[Passmore]

Hearing he’s off to Sydney at seasons end!

Yes, Luke Parker can’t get a game and they have Mills to come back. I’m certain they’re spending a mill per year on a bloke with no defensive game. He’ll be as popular as Sam Wicks.

 

[SpiderBurton22]

At the end of this year, peanut!

We have been given priority picks for the end of this year already, peanut.

They have already been used, peanut.

Traded so we could pick up Hardeman, Will Dawson and Goad, peanut

We're not getting any more, peanut..

 

[pupstar]

I think it's a completely wrong the people claim LDU doesn't give a s**t and will cherry pick a few moments in the game to justify it. He's been working through a lot of physical attention at stoppages and is certainly not playing the best football of his career.

He's had some really poor moments at times that people have come for him with the knives out. Despite all that he still leads the club in pressure acts per game and defensive half pressure acts per game, doesn't really align with the narrative he doesn't give a s**t.

We can't afford to lose LDU, we need quality senior players in the 26+ bracket as that's clearly been one our biggest issues in why we have found ourselves in this situation in the first place.

Yeah some people on here are pretty ruthless and do a lot of mind changing pretty quickly. It was not that long ago 2-3 seasons there where 3 or 4 posters questioning LDU and some aspects of his game and they where delt very harshly by the same posters on here absolutely giving it to him now. By the way I'm definitely in the camp of to keep him at nearly any cost.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Nup not in the leadership group.

This has always been a curiosity at best, red flag at worst.


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[TennisPlayerAndy]

Where did the bloke that was bullying midfields go?

Looks as though he needs a fresh start.

He’ll win flags and brownlows somewhere else and we’ll get laughed at again.

It’s the NMFC way

 

[Orange Peanut]

I think it's a completely wrong the people claim LDU doesn't give a s**t and will cherry pick a few moments in the game to justify it. He's been working through a lot of physical attention at stoppages and is certainly not playing the best football of his career.

He's had some really poor moments at times that people have come for him with the knives out. Despite all that he still leads the club in pressure acts per game and defensive half pressure acts per game, doesn't really align with the narrative he doesn't give a s**t.

We can't afford to lose LDU, we need quality senior players in the 26+ bracket as that's clearly been one our biggest issues in why we have found ourselves in this situation in the first place.

This for me too. I don't know how you conclude he's "checked out" from watching him last night. Went again and again in awful conditions, made some bad skill errors and poor decisions but jeez he kept fronting up.

 

[Gasometer]

We have been given priority picks for the end of this year already, peanut.

They have already been used, peanut.

Traded so we could pick up Hardeman, Will Dawson and Goad, peanut

We're not getting any more, peanut..

 

[SpiderBurton22]

Apologies to Orange Peanut for using his name in a disparaging way.

 

[Orange Peanut]

Apologies to Orange Peanut for using his name in a disparaging way.

I now know how oppressed minorities feel when players use slurs on the field.

 

[DuckYeah]

I dont believe LDU has checked out. He’s not as inside as we like him to be and he’s not as outside as we’d like him to be.

Ive always believed he’s been an average kick when he is sprinting, last night (conditions ignored) he was putrid by foot.

Im not buying this “he doesn’t give a s**t” topic. The end of the first Q you can see his frustration when Xerri runs up and gives him support.

They’re not executing what they should be doing.

 

[perplexed]

His disposal was awful but he worked his arse off last night. If he keeps up that effort things will turn.

 

[shintemaster]

Put in a session again but hard to see him complaining to Xerri about not dishing it off when he spent most of the night handing it straight back to the opposition.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

I don’t think he’s checked out. It’s just mentally prepping if it does happen.


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[roos_fanatic08]

Where did the bloke that was bullying midfields go?

Looks as though he needs a fresh start.

He’ll win flags and brownlows somewhere else and we’ll get laughed at again.

It’s the NMFC way

I don’t see him reaching those sorts of heights mate. He isn’t consistent enough, he isn’t damaging enough with his disposal and he doesn’t impact the scoreboard.

Players like Neale, Dangerfield, Cripps ect put the team on their back and win games off their own boot. When Carlton were s**t, Cripps single handedly won them games and kept them competitive. I just done think LDU quite has that level in him.

Maybe he’d really shine if he had better players around him, but the absolute best of the best don’t need elite support players.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

I don’t see him reaching those sorts of heights mate. He isn’t consistent enough, he isn’t damaging enough with his disposal and he doesn’t impact the scoreboard.

Players like Neale, Dangerfield, Cripps ect put the team on their back and win games off their own boot. When Carlton were s**t, Cripps single handedly won them games and kept them competitive. I just done think LDU quite has that level in him.

Maybe he’d really shine if he had better players around him, but the absolute best of the best don’t need elite support players.

He polled 11 votes last year in a team that won three games. Cunnington was a big loss for him IMO.

Put him in a proper midfield with a quality system, and the bloke will dominate.

Our current set up is a shitshow.

 

[KangaRooster]

He polled 11 votes last year in a team that won three games. Cunnington was a big loss for him IMO.

Put him in a proper midfield with a quality system, and the bloke will dominate.

Our current set up is a shitshow.

Guaranteed if you'd asked him 24 months ago which North players are the most key to his performance he replies Goldy, Cunners and TT.