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Luke Jackson's Offseason Transformation

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Ps this is a professional athlete, I keep banging on about it but NHL guys spend most off season preparing for next season (they do have shorter training camps), because they realise their skills/fitness/body are the tools they need to improve on every off season. Well done LJ. 

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    He looks so much stronger.   I am no expert in muscles and fitness but he looks very sexy.

    Keep at it LJ,  you can be the best player in the league if you want it.

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    I’m impressed by the level of his commitment. I wonder how many other second year players have undergone a 7 week program like this.

    That’s also a very impressive mullet. A real throwback. Between LJ and BB we’ve got the rest of the league well and truly covered in terms of suave hairstyles!

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    7 minutes ago, Wrecker45 said:

    We should have sent Weid there when he arrived at the club.

    Do it now!

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    I love it.  This kid could be a 'game changer', and we already have a couple of those!

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    4 hours ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

    He looks so much stronger.   I am no expert in muscles and fitness but he looks very sexy.

    Keep at it LJ,  you can be the best player in the league if you want it.

    Hay sexy LJ?

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    performing freddie mercury GIF      All he needs is the white satin pant suit. Way to go LJ!

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    3 hours ago, Cards13 said:

    “When no one is watching that, is where the race is won” 

    Lols!!

    There’s business available for every level of intellect. 
    Just gotta make it your own. 

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    And [censored] it,  I’m gonna have one more beer. 

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    Some players 'get it' earlier than others like Oliver, Viney and apply themselves from the beginning. Not just at training and the extra sessions many do but well above that. Petracca perhaps took longer than he may have but is there now. Gawn by his own admission took longer for it to click.Its when you know you have an emerging A grader. some don't ever get it like sylvia

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    37 minutes ago, Demons1858 said:

    Some players 'get it' earlier than others like Oliver, Viney and apply themselves from the beginning. Not just at training and the extra sessions many do but well above that. Petracca perhaps took longer than he may have but is there now. Gawn by his own admission took longer for it to click.Its when you know you have an emerging A grader. some don't ever get it like sylvia

    Oliver actually struggled with the demands of AFL professionalism in his first 12 months. His diet and off field work was quite poor.

    That until Brendan McCartney and Billy Stretch took him aside to help him adjust.

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    LJ will be a weapon in the future.  Just needs to remember two things - 

    1- get a decent haircut and 

    2- to stay at the Dees and never go back to a WA team 

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    2 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    LJ will be a weapon in the future.  Just needs to remember two things - 

    1- get a decent haircut and 

    2- to stay at the Dees and never go back to a WA team 

    1. NO, NO, NO, LJ's current hairstyle is heroically ugly - potentially cult!

    2. Yes!

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    Whinging about players' hairstyles makes you sound like an old fuddy-duddy.  It couldn't be less relevant.

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    clarity

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    18 minutes ago, demonstone said:

    Whinging about players' hairstyles makes you sound like an old fuddy-duddy.  It couldn't be less relevant.

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