Farewell Luke Jackson

[58er 6,461]

12 minutes ago, 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. 

[Bring-Back-Powell 14,865]

1 hour ago, 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.

[illbarto 379]

19 hours ago, Grapeviney said:

Wow

 

"The Freak"

[Purple77 1,001]

43 minutes ago, 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. 

[Jaded No More 68,967]

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. 

[adonski 12,256]

2 minutes ago, 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 

[Jaded No More 68,967]

5 minutes ago, 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 

[tiers 2,842]

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

[Allus Monk 568]

13 hours ago, 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. 

[jnrmac 20,109]

4 hours ago, 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...

 

[CHF 2,748]

3 hours ago, 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.

[Soidee 1,496]

‘Jackson on cusp of godfather deal’

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

Edited February 27, 2022 by Grapeviney
Merge

[adonski 12,256]

https://thewest.com.au/sport/afl/why-off-contract-melbourne-premiership-tall-east-fremantle-product-luke-jackson-is-poised-for-godfather-deal-c-5860132

Can't access either I'm afraid, could anyone do the honours?

[Lord Nev 13,512]

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.

[Diamond_Jim 12,600]

14 minutes ago, 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.

[Beetle 4,660]

1 hour ago, 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.

[58er 6,461]

On 2/16/2022 at 8:43 PM, 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 

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,816]

10 hours ago, 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?

[Bring-Back-Powell 14,865]

10 hours ago, 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. 

[whatwhat say what 22,783]

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 2/16/2022 at 4:46 PM, 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’ 😑

[Dee Zephyr 19,267]

4 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

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

[MrFreeze 1,971]

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 

[Grr-owl 1,222]

On 2/7/2022 at 1:38 PM, 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....

[monoccular 17,443]

On 2/16/2022 at 4:23 PM, 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.