Player Watch Jack Lukosius

[Nelso]

Luko was exactly the same at the Suns

People expecting him to turn his attitude and competiveness around now that he is wearing a Port jumper are kidding themselves.

 

[Portmagpies36]

Those not willing to give him more than a couple games in a row seem to forget that many players even with experience struggle early on at their new clubs. Look at Houston's disastrous season last year, he is only just finding his groove now and he played all but a couple games last year.

And closer to home i remember both Jay Schulz and Byron pickett being poor early for us before clicking into gear. Byron Picketts first 7 games, he averaged 8 touches and kicked 2 goals. He then played his former team in round 8, kicked 3 and away he went, booting 41 goals from the last 18 games and averaging 14 possessions. Schulz fairly similar, poor early and then kicked 7 round 13 of 2010 and the rest of this season was great.

Charlie Dixon's second season was much better than his first.

I didn't think Ryder lived up to the hype in his first year in 2015, all australian in 2017.

Houston had well and truly proved himself with AA selection the previous 2 years, I have a problem with Lukosius and what he has done or (hasn’t done in his case) his whole career not just the last 2 years. There is NO excuse for backing out of contests you’re not going anywhere with players like that in your side.
How many of those players you named were gifted a 6 year deal?

 

[Willsy10]

Houston had well and truly proved himself with AA selection the previous 2 years, I have a problem with Lukosius and what he has done or (hasn’t done in his case) his whole career not just the last 2 years. There is NO excuse for backing out of contests you’re not going anywhere with players like that in your side.
How many of those players you named were gifted a 6 year deal?

I can tell.

 

[Scodges]

I think you should make that joke one more time mate, the 1000 times before that weren't enough.

Who said it was a joke ?

 

[Scodges]

For a start, maybe learn to read und understand English!

I did not say I saw a lot of positives in the team's "performance." I merely said I that I saw positives - full-stop!. A big difference in meaning.

• The first quarter was great. Excellent ball movement through the middle. Skills were up. A lot to like
• Rategolea was a rock down back, never out-marked, so disappointing to see him limp off.
• Georgiades continued his rise, looking great early. Easily has it in him to wine the Coleman
• Whitlock cementing himself as one of the top forwards from the last draft, so exciting to see. Bargain draftee
• Durdin showed signs that he will make it as a small forward
• Logan is continuing his rebound, looked solid, and will keep getting better IMO
• I actually thought Brodie showed something for his first game in many years, and only 46% game-time. I just didnt like the way he was used.
• Butters was Butters, and tried his best
• Looked like WC were going to win by 5 goals, but Port tried hard to get up and win, which was a tick
• I thought Burgoyne showed some good signs in the middle
• Bizarrely, I thought it a positive that we missed an easy 5 or 6 goals we should have easily got, yet only lost by 2 points!
• We should have won that game easily even while carrying a substantial amount of sub-AFL players!

Were there negatives? Hell yeah! Heaps! I am not going to follow the masses here and bag every fill-in, depth-player used on the day. They are what they are. Fact is, we SHOULD have won the game despite playing them, so the blame falls on the experienced players. That is where the team failure lies.

I suppose it is another positive that Carr voiced this. Lets see if he can do something about it

West costs senior players did an excellent job, the new recruits were icing on the cake. Our seniors didn’t do enough.

 

[Steve Dore]

He will go down as one of our worst trades ever. ....

To be fair he was just the steak knives in the Rory Atkins trade.

 

[ctpower]

Have you been to a game lately? It's like being at a funeral, i felt like i was getting looked at and judged if i ever spoke. Sunday the crowd couldn't have been tamer.

I actually just got my 30 year membership email. I go to about 10 home games a year. (I know you didn’t mean that comment in a bad way).
It was a bit angrier where I was on the outer wing on the eastern side but I take your point.

 

[Portmagpies36]

I can tell.

Clearly you accept soft footballers playing at Port Adelaide I don’t.