Player Watch #9: Luke Davies-Uniacke - signs until end 2025! Runner up in the 2022 Syd Barker Medal Award

[Lomas]

Luke and Tarryn's Excellent Adventure

bodacious!

 

[Liam Boy]

Cunners is George Carlin in this analogy

 

[Carlos Herrrnandez]

You have pick #3 in the 2017 draft. Do you take:

Paddy Dow

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Paddy Dow

Age

24

Ht

184cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.1

4star

K

7.0

3star

HB

7.1

4star

M

2.1

2star

T

2.9

4star

CL

2.6

4star

D

7.0

1star

K

4.0

1star

HB

3.0

2star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.0

3star

CL

0.0

1star

D

12.4

4star

K

5.8

3star

HB

6.6

4star

M

1.6

2star

T

2.8

5star

CL

2.6

5star

LDU

baggers!!!

 

[The Butcher]

Been quietly building into the best form of his career. He absolutely obliterates a contest. Renders 4-5 chasers irrelevant through his agility and movement. This sucks others in to tackle him and he's learning that this allows h to release to outside runners.

Agreed. It's wise to situate this in the context of our total tap dominance today tho. Just saying. My bold above. He doesn't have the awareness of a 4th year Cunners, or first year Powell (freak), but I definitely see those junior blinkers being tugged down by a rising tide of professionally learned and experience based situational awareness. He's becoming. everything else equal, add that to an improvement in Sly Jy's KICKING (nuts scrossed) and we'll trouble every team in the league.

 

[jarjarpowers]

His work in traffic is insane.
As his strength buiilds he will just become unstoppable.
He is the pick of that draft IMO.

 

[speedy]

His soft efforts are pretty much nonexistent now.… now he has to sharpen up his field kicking and goal kicking.

 

[kangatragic]

His work in traffic is insane.
As his strength buiilds he will just become unstoppable.
He is the pick of that draft IMO.

Apart from Naughton I wouldn't swap him. Plus Jaidyn Stephenson also from that draft.

 

[Uncle_Leo]

It’s all starting to come together and it’s fantastic to see

consistency, hardness and is not getting caught anywhere near as much

Gun

 

[the big lebowski]

You have pick #3 in the 2017 draft. Do you take:

Paddy Dow
LDU

baggers!!!

I remember being over the moon and surprised draft night. Brayshaw was the surprise at 2, leaving carton with the choice. Afterwards I went to the Carlton board draft thread and predicted that LDU vs Dow would be the call that would make or break SOS.

 

[Chairman Zia]

Does anyone have the vision where LDU was held for like 3 seconds as he waited to get the right hand ball away...

 

[pupstar]

His work in traffic is insane.
As his strength buiilds he will just become unstoppable.
He is the pick of that draft IMO.

I think Naughton would have to be right up there along with Zac Bailey.

 

[Whereitallbegan]

Will need to watch the replay, but the umps seemed to be giving LDU an unusually long time to release the footy on a few occasions, or maybe they were just mesmerized like the rest of us

 

[the big lebowski]

Will need to watch the replay, but the umps seemed to be giving LDU an unusually long time to release the footy on a few occasions, or maybe they were just mesmerized like the rest of us

The thing is, some of them are only half tackles. They hold his jumper as they fall to the ground while he stands up and scoffs.

 

[Chairman Zia]

Will need to watch the replay, but the umps seemed to be giving LDU an unusually long time to release the footy on a few occasions, or maybe they were just mesmerized like the rest of us

yeah i was referring to this just b4, he had an eternity i suppose he had that long becaues he wasn't wobbly when being tackled.

 

[tazaa]

You have pick #3 in the 2017 draft. Do you take:

Paddy Dow
LDU

baggers!!!

Freo got Brayshaw and Cerra
We got LDU and Sleevo

Carlton ended up with Dow

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Freo got Brayshaw and Cerra
We got LDU and Sleevo and Bonar

Carlton ended up with Dow

EFA.

It’s glorious.

 

[shinboner magic]

I remember being over the moon and surprised draft night. Brayshaw was the surprise at 2, leaving carton with the choice. Afterwards I went to the Carlton board draft thread and predicted that LDU vs Dow would be the call that would make or break SOS.

You better go bump that bad boy

 

[tazaa]

I hope everyone was watching his core and balance at the contest. You can see he’s always in the brace position to get it and go. Always on the move. It’s very hard to knock an inside/outside midfielder off balance when he’s stationed like that.
One player who comes to mind was Chris Judd and if you watch Luke’s work around the stoppages all the power comes from his hips. Very nice.

Basically seeing this weekly now, as he bursts in and out of packs.
What is he now? 21 years old?
lol he is going to destroy some teams in the next few years

 

[Chairman Zia]

Freo got Brayshaw and Cerra
We got LDU and Sleevo

Carlton ended up with Dow

Hopefully cerra goes to richmond to prop up a rusted ship and not to our direct competitor.

 

[the big lebowski]

You better go bump that bad boy

The problem was he made plenty more bad decisions

 

[Ether]

Freo got Brayshaw and Cerra
We got LDU and Sleevo

Carlton ended up with Dow

Carlton said after the draft they would have taken Dow at pick 1 if they had it.

 

[giantroo]

 

[giantroo]

Luke Davies-Uniacke; North Melbourne Football Club

The Kangaroos have become a consistent, form side each week since the bye. We know what we're going to get from Noble's men, an honest week in, week out, sustainable performance. And it's starting to pay off with wins!

player.whooshkaa.com

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

Love NB's teaching style. I feel like it has really allowed LDU to flourish by making the mistakes he has needed to and learn from them in order to launch his development. Cunners has also been so valuable it seems off the ground for our young brigade. Our young guns are so lucky to be learning from the absolute best in the business.

 

[Souup]

"Star down in defense"