Farewell Luke Jackson

[Demonstone 22,215]

45 minutes ago, willmoy said:

I presume these players were billeted with their ex team players as well.......just asking

Wot?

[jules7 787]

On 12/29/2022 at 4:35 PM, Redleg said:

You can pm me if you don’t mind.

Me 5 please. 

[dazzledavey36 54,119]

I don't even know who's pm'ing who.

But you better throw one my way....

[Demonsterative 3,020]

Me too club here too 

[Bring-Back-Powell 14,683]

Me too please if you’re not already sick of PMing people.

Greatly appreciated, thanks.

[daisycutter 29,600]

ok, ok, i gotta know. pm me as well 

[Demonstone 22,215]

The five stages of Demonland grief as applied to Luke Jackson:

1.  Denial:  Dogga isn't going anywhere.  He'll re-sign and be a Demon for life.  He's a premiership star.

2.  Anger:  How dare Luke go back to W.A.?   He clearly knew this was going to happen all season.  He's so                        disloyal and ungrateful to MFC and as for his mother ...

3.  Bargaining:  Well, at least we'll get some great draft picks in return and he did help us win the flag                                          (although he didn't really do that much in the third quarter)

4. Depression:  Can't believe we didn't get much in return for him.  Don't think he was really trying in 2022,                                  either.  Was he actually injured or had he already checked out mentally?

5.  Acceptance:  Jackson wasn't that good anyway.  He'll just be ordinary at Freo.  Good riddance.  Luke                                        who?

 

Edited February 26, 2023 by Demonstone

[Redleg 40,777]

I’ve lost track of where we are at in this thread.

Suffice to say he is gone and we move on.

As far as the reasons he left, hopefully for the last time, they were:

Family.

Huge contract.

Living back in home city.

Playing for team he and his family support.

So, good luck LJ and bad luck Dockers, or put another way, have a fair year LJ in a poorly performing club.

Edited February 26, 2023 by Redleg

[Bitter but optimistic 22,218]

38 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

The five stages of Demonland grief as applied to Luke Jackson:

1.  Denial:  Dogga isn't going anywhere.  He'll re-sign and be a Demon for life.  He's a premiership star.

2.  Anger:  How dare Luke go back to W.A.?   He clearly knew this was going to happen all season.  He's so                        disloyal and ungrateful to MFC and as for his mother ...

3.  Bargaining:  Well, at least we'll get some great draft picks in return and he did help us win the flag                                          (although he didn't really do that much in the third quarter)

4. Depression:  Can't believe we didn't get much in return for him.  Don't think he was really trying in 2022,                                  either.  Was he actually injured or had he already checked out mentally?

5.  Acceptance:  Jackson wasn't that good anyway.  He'll just be ordinary at Freo.  Good riddance.  Luke                                        who?

 

Very good Demonstone. 

Very good indeed.

[Monbon 1,840]

Luke is past tense. Goodbye, have a good life. Am so sick and fed up with this . It's like a divorced man having fancy for the wife who left him for another. Buona sera, si Signore, off you go, have a good life, I hope his mum's recipes are not what he cracked them up to me.

Ich habe genug. E basta. Nuff is Nuff. Arriverderci, good riddance, Tom Scully says hi...

[picket fence 17,003]

Ok 

1 Is and always will be premiership player!😋

2 Went home for whatever reason and if he has a sheeeit year🤮

BAD LUCK MATE CHOICE YOU MADE

[FireInTheBennelly 4,072]

Was just wondering if anyone received one of these mythical PMs? I have serious FOMO issues, so please help a brother out.

[loges 6,767]

6 hours ago, Demonstone said:

The five stages of Demonland grief as applied to Luke Jackson:

1.  Denial:  Dogga isn't going anywhere.  He'll re-sign and be a Demon for life.  He's a premiership star.

2.  Anger:  How dare Luke go back to W.A.?   He clearly knew this was going to happen all season.  He's so                        disloyal and ungrateful to MFC and as for his mother ...

3.  Bargaining:  Well, at least we'll get some great draft picks in return and he did help us win the flag                                          (although he didn't really do that much in the third quarter)

4. Depression:  Can't believe we didn't get much in return for him.  Don't think he was really trying in 2022,                                  either.  Was he actually injured or had he already checked out mentally?

5.  Acceptance:  Jackson wasn't that good anyway.  He'll just be ordinary at Freo.  Good riddance.  Luke                                        who?

 

Left out, no longer care what he does 

[old55 23,333]

PM me this P.M. if you received a PM

[layzie 33,728]

Farewell Luke, for the umpteenth time. 

[AzzKikA 2,371]

7 hours ago, FireInTheBennelly said:

Was just wondering if anyone received one of these mythical PMs? I have serious FOMO issues, so please help a brother out.

Nope, as in no I never got it.

Edited February 26, 2023 by AzzKikA

[layzie 33,728]

Can I also please have a PM? FOMOing hard 

[rjay 24,816]

16 hours ago, Gawndy the Great said:

+1 on the PM/DM plz. Surely we should be able to post rumour and/or innuendo on here as long as it confirmed as such? I don’t get the big issue.  

Legal action is a pretty big issue.

[layzie 33,728]

On 12/29/2022 at 3:06 AM, DEE fence said:

For 10 years was a goto running shoe, but then found addidas ultraboost, never Nike or anything narrow.

Yeah got the wide foot syndrome as well. 

[Gawndy the Great 9,011]

16 minutes ago, rjay said:

Legal action is a pretty big issue.

Yes it is. Not sure how it relates to a potential motivation for someone to leave one club and join another though - but without seeing the scenario, its hard to comment. 

[In Harmes Way 7,730]

Don't bother with a PM my way.

If you'd said to me in 2013 that we'd have a No. 3 draft pick come our way, he'd play a big part (no rose coloured glasses here) in winning us a grand final and then he'd be gone, I'd have taken it in a heart beat. I'll always be thankful to him for that, but I have no interest in what he does now or the macchinations as to why he wanted to go.

[Stiff Arm 4,419]

3 minutes ago, In Harmes Way said:

Don't bother with a PM my way.

If you'd said to me in 2013 that we'd have a No. 3 draft pick come our way, he'd play a big part (no rose coloured glasses here) in winning us a grand final and then he'd be gone, I'd have taken it in a heart beat. I'll always be thankful to him for that, but I have no interest in what he does now or the macchinations as to why he wanted to go.

AND... the no 3 pick who helped us win a GF then turned into 2 x 1st rounders and a 2nd rounder, and we also gained a 2 x AA replacement ruck for about the same as LJ would've been paid....

Holey moley!

[layzie 33,728]

44 minutes ago, Stiff Arm said:

AND... the no 3 pick who helped us win a GF then turned into 2 x 1st rounders and a 2nd rounder, and we also gained a 2 x AA replacement ruck for about the same as LJ would've been paid....

Holey moley!

We all really need to sticky tape this on our mirrors to read each morning. 

[John Crow Batty 8,860]

1 hour ago, Stiff Arm said:

AND... the no 3 pick who helped us win a GF then turned into 2 x 1st rounders and a 2nd rounder, and we also gained a 2 x AA replacement ruck for about the same as LJ would've been paid....

Holey moley!

The profit and loss sheet might look good but the speculation and his indifferent form last season somewhat help derail our core business which was focused on going BTB.

Edited February 27, 2023 by John Crow Batty

[binman 42,496]

On Jackson, I'm firmly of the view we are a better team with Grundy in it than with Jackson - at least for the next 2-3 seasons (Jackosn will be crazy good when he hits his peak in his mid 20s, still four years away).

So, i wish the young fella luck - and i hope he enjoys watching the Dees leave Freo in our wake. And doesn't struggle too much with regret. Such a negative and exhausting emotion.

I also hope he copes ok with moving to freo with the expectation of spending more of his time in the ruck than he did at the dees (coz he is on record as saying that's where he most enjoys playing) - only to play the exact same role as he did at the dees - a forward and back up ruck to a clear number one ruck.

He will also have to cope with the irony of knowing if he had stayed at the dees he would likely have got way more ruck time given the dees want to give Maxy much more of a chop out this season - not to mention the chance of a adding a second flag to his resume,