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Farewell Luke Jackson

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5 minutes ago, Six6Six said:

Hey guys a bit of sanity here please. Luke is a demon listed player and not a free agent. He cannot leave without our blessing. Freo need to trade for him and they will not have any sort of hand in the draft to satisfy our needs. The only danger would be that West Coast finish last and somehow talk him in to going into the draft. Aint going to happen, the kid has more loyalty than that. Wouldnt shaft the club that made him a premiership player so early in his career. We hold all the cards.

You do realize that sanity on demonland doesn't exist for some.

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    8 minutes ago, Six6Six said:

    Hey guys a bit of sanity here please. Luke is a demon listed player and not a free agent. He cannot leave without our blessing. Freo need to trade for him and they will not have any sort of hand in the draft to satisfy our needs. The only danger would be that West Coast finish last and somehow talk him in to going into the draft. Aint going to happen, the kid has more loyalty than that. Wouldnt shaft the club that made him a premiership player so early in his career. We hold all the cards.

    He can absolutely leave without out blessing lol..

    He's out of contract mate. 

    If he comes out and says he wants to go home then we cannot stop him at all. It's up to us and WC/Freo to strike up a deal that benefits both parties moving forward.

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    LJ to stay. We’ve given him more than money can buy.  A premiership.  Something he’ll always remember.  Sure he can probably get a million a year elsewhere but he’s bonded with so many at MFC. If we can get to $750k a year over 5 years ($3.75m) that’s plenty of coin. If he leaves for more , that’s $$$cully-like 

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    8 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    LJ to stay. We’ve given him more than money can buy.  A premiership.  Something he’ll always remember.  Sure he can probably get a million a year elsewhere but he’s bonded with so many at MFC. If we can get to $750k a year over 5 years ($3.75m) that’s plenty of coin. If he leaves for more , that’s $$$cully-like 

    If he leaves it’s because he wants to go home. The money will not be much more. Let’s just ease up on the kid.

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    1 minute ago, rpfc said:

    If he leaves it’s because he wants to go home. The money will not be much more. Let’s just ease up on the kid.

    Fair enough. Go home factor always in play when you draft kids from interstate.  But I think players are staying more and more and it’s a relatively low rate of players changing for the “go home” factor these days. 

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    So just a question, maybe answered elsewhere, but when were we planning on turning this guy into a forward? After he signs? The cameos are not enough and I seem to remember from the Hell and Back/recruitment video stuff we were considering him as a forward? Is there some cunning 0lan to keep his value down?

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    12 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

     

    What are his groundball gets like? It's more than just hit outs mate and you know that.

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    18 minutes ago, A F said:

    What are his groundball gets like? It's more than just hit outs mate and you know that.

    Yes that’s the missing stat. His 2nd efforts are A+ rated imv 

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    33 minutes ago, A F said:

    What are his groundball gets like? It's more than just hit outs mate and you know that.

    I didnt even mention anything? I've just provided a tweet?

    Don't shoot the messenger. 

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    6 hours ago, A F said:

    What are his groundball gets like? It's more than just hit outs mate and you know that.

    Elite for a ruck below average for a mid and that’s the issue how valuable is an elite ground ball ruck when a mid does a better job every day of the week

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    2 hours ago, Garbo said:

    Elite for a ruck below average for a mid and that’s the issue how valuable is an elite ground ball ruck when a mid does a better job every day of the week

    Was handy in the 3rd in the Granny…

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    8 hours ago, Garbo said:

    Elite for a ruck below average for a mid and that’s the issue how valuable is an elite ground ball ruck when a mid does a better job every day of the week

    This makes no sense. Doesn’t need to be elite for a mid. Just needs to have a ground ball advantage vs oppo ruckman, which effectively creates an out-numbering of mids (particularly for centre bounces).

    No chance he is “below average” as a mid either. 

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    Probably our most promising young player of the past 20-30 years (apart from Clarry):- and all most people here want to do is doubt him. Very weird. 

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    Just now, 1964_2 said:

    Probably our most promising young player of the past 20-30 years (apart from Clarry):- and all anyone here wants to do is doubt him. Very weird. 

    doing this as a 20 year old tall comparable with goodes

    dude is a freak of a player

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    18 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    He can absolutely leave without out blessing lol..

    He's out of contract mate. 

    If he comes out and says he wants to go home then we cannot stop him at all. It's up to us and WC/Freo to strike up a deal that benefits both parties moving forward.

    You missed my point entirely. Of course he can leave but unless melbourne can negotiate adequate compensation the only way he can go is to accept a new mfc contract or into the draft which would mean that he most probably goes to west coast with freo having no chance. Westcoast will have a far better hand to trade than Freo. Either have faith in the kid having some sort of decency or our list management to sort it all out.

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    5 minutes ago, Demonland said:

     

    Well he is happy to stay and commit now!

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    Interesting timing re English

    I'm wondering at what stage does LJ's non-commitment to a MFC future start to impact on the attitude of his teammates? 

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    1 minute ago, Sydee said:

    Interesting timing re English

    I'm wondering at what stage does LJ's non-commitment to a MFC future start to impact on the attitude of his teammates? 

    Gus hasn’t signed either.

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    I'm hearing positive things about Dogga staying for a couple of years

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    11 minutes ago, Dannyz said:

    I'm hearing positive things about Dogga staying for a couple of years

    It’s positive to read that, thanks for sharing.

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    15 minutes ago, Sydee said:

    Interesting timing re English

    I'm wondering at what stage does LJ's non-commitment to a MFC future start to impact on the attitude of his teammates? 

    None I would suggest.

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