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Farewell Luke Jackson

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  On 16/02/2022 at 05:57, Mazer Rackham said:

Yes, let's see LJ try this [censored] against Nic Nat!

 

Max has been out-elited by the young gun

Jnr Mac

LJ got 3 votes for his game vs Eagles in R 21 so that means he was better than Nic Nat!! 
Any player  can beat another in any given dual let's face it but all day for votes and winning the game is the test. 

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      On 16/02/2022 at 05:23, Axis of Bob said:

    Every time a new term for an high level player or skill is coined, it slowly loses its meaning as its definition is softened more an more. It used to be 'excellent', 'brilliant' and 'star', until people were using those terms for every hack that played more than 15 games in a year.

    'Elite' didn't exist as a rating 10 years ago, and it probably won't be used in 10 years' time as someone will popularise a term that is even higher than elite to define players that even surpass the level of .... *checks notes* .... Jack Scrimshaw.

    Adam Schneider was recently referred to as an AFL “legend”.

    The accolades really get thrown around loosely.

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      On 16/02/2022 at 06:14, 58er said:

    Jnr Mac

    LJ got 3 votes for his game vs Eagles in R 21 so that means he was better than Nic Nat!! 
    Any player  can beat another in any given dual let's face it but all day for votes and winning the game is the test. 

    Holy moly, you're right. LJ really did get 3 votes against West Coast. 

    Can't believe I didn't make a big deal out of it at the time! That's amazing, 20yo ruck. Crazy. 

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    All I got out of the members brief on this before it froze and died is that Jackson’s contract “will sort itself out”. Whatever the hell that means. 

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      On 16/02/2022 at 08:29, Jaded No More said:

    All I got out of the members brief on this before it froze and died is that Jackson’s contract “will sort itself out”. Whatever the hell that means. 

    I honestly thought they were going to announce an extension haha 

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      On 16/02/2022 at 08:32, adonski said:

    I honestly thought they were going to announce an extension haha 

    Jackson signing a new contract deserves a parade and fireworks. Not an announcement on a “live” feed that keeps dropping out 

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    Just sign him for many years. He could be so good that we can then work out where his best role will be.

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      On 15/02/2022 at 19:43, Demonland said:

    Hope the Eagles focus all their attention and money on securing English. 

     

    The only problem with this is it makes our biggest challenger, the Bulldogs, better. 

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      On 16/02/2022 at 06:14, 58er said:

    Jnr Mac

    LJ got 3 votes for his game vs Eagles in R 21 so that means he was better than Nic Nat!! 
    Any player  can beat another in any given dual let's face it but all day for votes and winning the game is the test. 

    You clearly missed the irony and the laughing emoji.

    I was referring to LJ beating Max who Champion data don't regard as elite...

     

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      On 16/02/2022 at 06:58, Purple77 said:

    Holy moly, you're right. LJ really did get 3 votes against West Coast. 

    Can't believe I didn't make a big deal out of it at the time! That's amazing, 20yo ruck. Crazy. 

    I watched that game yesterday and noted that both Max and Luke left NN behind a few times. He just does not look fit enough to play out complete games.

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    • 2 weeks later...

    ‘Jackson on cusp of godfather deal’

    According to Ralph in the West Australian.  Cannot access paywall.

    Edited by Grapeviney
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    Let me save you the trouble, it's an opinion piece not actually news.

    Nothing to do with him signing, all about how (the authors think) WC and Freo might offer him huge contracts.

    Skip it.

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      On 27/02/2022 at 10:52, Lord Nev said:

    Let me save you the trouble, it's an opinion piece not actually news.

    Nothing to do with him signing, all about how (the authors think) WC and Freo might offer him huge contracts.

    Skip it.

    No secret here

    The money on offer from the West plus the endorsements etc will be enormous.

    I'd be happy with another 2/3 years from Luke.

    He's on his way to being the highest player to date.

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      On 27/02/2022 at 11:10, Diamond_Jim said:

    No secret here

    The money on offer from the West plus the endorsements etc will be enormous.

    I'd be happy with another 2/3 years from Luke.

    He's on his way to being the highest player to date.

    5 year deal in front of him. Club happy for him to settle on a 2-3 year extension while our window is open.

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      On 16/02/2022 at 10:43, jnrmac said:

    You clearly missed the irony and the laughing emoji.

    I was referring to LJ beating Max who Champion data don't regard as elite...

     

    Ok you got me JMac 

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      On 27/02/2022 at 11:10, Diamond_Jim said:

    No secret here

    The money on offer from the West plus the endorsements etc will be enormous.

    I'd be happy with another 2/3 years from Luke.

    He's on his way to being the highest player to date.

    Code for becoming a West Coast Eagle?

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      On 27/02/2022 at 11:10, Diamond_Jim said:

    I'd be happy with another 2/3 years from Luke.

    100% agree.

    Another 2/3 year while we're in our window is key, and if he leaves after that, so be it. 

    Our window's not going to be open forever. 

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    the article re jackson has appeared in the little paper...

    there's literally nothing to it; just says that melbourne can't afford to lowball dogga as he's the sort of player that freo MIGHT throw a godfather offer at to capture his signature

    my god the herald-sun is an appalling newspaper

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      On 16/02/2022 at 05:46, Queanbeyan Demon said:

    The classification 'elite' would have to be the most meaningless segmenting of players in any comp anywhere in the world. 

    Ugh. Of all the misused/abused words in our beautiful language ‘elite’ is right up there. The worst offender being Richo. I cringe hard whenever I hear him describe a player as having ‘elite hands’ 😑

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    Freo are a worry - however their tall stocks are in good nick

    WC are going nowhere fast, not an attractive club to go to at this stage 

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      On 07/02/2022 at 09:38, daisycutter said:

    dogga must be quite a chatterbox.

    they've been talking for months now

    Yeah, they took him to werribee park zoo and gave him a balloon afterwards. Can't stop talking about it....

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      On 16/02/2022 at 05:23, Axis of Bob said:

    Every time a new term for an high level player or skill is coined, it slowly loses its meaning as its definition is softened more an more. It used to be 'excellent', 'brilliant' and 'star', until people were using those terms for every hack that played more than 15 games in a year.

    'Elite' didn't exist as a rating 10 years ago, and it probably won't be used in 10 years' time as someone will popularise a term that is even higher than elite to define players that even surpass the level of .... *checks notes* .... Jack Scrimshaw.

    Friggin' amazing will do it for me.

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