Player Watch #9: Luke Davies-Uniacke [Part II] - [Herald Sun] LDU has parked contract talks with the club & is expected to command offers of more than $1m a season

[HBFlanker]

Wont be moving this year.

Match any offer that comes.

We need to win 6 to 8 games next year to show improvement. if we dont he will leave.

 

[shimaburnsgrieg]

Wont be moving this year.

Match any offer that comes.

We need to win 6 to 8 games next year to show improvement. if we dont he will leave.

lol - win 6-8 games...

 

[RossHenshaw]

Wont be moving this year.

Match any offer that comes.

We need to win 6 to 8 games next year to show improvement. if we dont he will leave.

& how many this year ?

 

[lockheed]

& how many this year ?

One would be a start

 

[Billy Not Really]

Another ‘what could have been’ in the sad story of this ******* dire club. He’ll walk, and I won’t care, even though at one point he was my absolute favourite player and I would have bet the house that he was gonna be a champion.

Now look where we are, things change quickly, and yet being s**t is the same for this club apparently.

 

[gokangas]

Auditioning today - lets hope he plays a BoG.

 

[nicko74]

Auditioning today - lets hope he plays a BoG.

Is he?

 

[Passmore]

Auditioning today - lets hope he plays a BoG.

BOG, lead us to victory, then contemplate why the heck you'd go to St Kilda for "success".

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[DocSholl]

So where is this top 5 pick coming from if he goes to a team likely to finish in the top 8?

Tbf that's not really our issue to figure out. If a team wants him this year they'll need to find the currency

 

[Val Keating]

Tbf that's not really our issue to figure out. If a team wants him this year they'll need to find the currency

Which is why it won’t happen. Teams are reportedly going to be much tighter with their draft picks before the Tassie team comes in.

 

[Val Keating]

This is probably for the draft and trading thread, but I caught a bit of talk on SEN about the midseason trade period that the media is pushing for. The bloke literally said “it’ll be great for the media” and then quickly added “and the fans too”.

Straight away I thought how ****ed we’d be if LDU demanded a trade to a finals contender mid season and we lost our only big bodied mid. I don’t care what picks a club threw at us, our young mids would be fed to the wolves, it’d be terrible for their development.

 

[shinboner magic]

This is probably for the draft and trading thread, but I caught a bit of talk on SEN about the midseason trade period that the media is pushing for. The bloke literally said “it’ll be great for the media” and then quickly added “and the fans too”.

Straight away I thought how ****ed we’d be if LDU demanded a trade to a finals contender mid season and we lost our only big bodied mid. I don’t care what picks a club threw at us, our young mids would be fed to the wolves, it’d be terrible for their development.

Mid season trade would only benefit the big clubs and finals sides - it would destroy the bottom teams

 

[Val Keating]

Mid season trade would only benefit the big clubs and finals sides - it would destroy the bottom teams

100%.

 

[shintemaster]

Which is why it won’t happen. Teams are reportedly going to be much tighter with their draft picks before the Tassie team comes in.

That's the irony of the current situation - a club like ours is actually more in a position to pick up gun players on big contracts in the right age group with draft picks.

 

[DesertRoo]

This is probably for the draft and trading thread, but I caught a bit of talk on SEN about the midseason trade period that the media is pushing for. The bloke literally said “it’ll be great for the media” and then quickly added “and the fans too”.

Straight away I thought how ****ed we’d be if LDU demanded a trade to a finals contender mid season and we lost our only big bodied mid. I don’t care what picks a club threw at us, our young mids would be fed to the wolves, it’d be terrible for their development.

The only way a mid season draft would work is if the clubs held much more power then they currently do.

 

[Val Keating]

The only way a mid season draft would work is if the clubs held much more power then they currently do.

Does anyone except the media want it?

 

[DesertRoo]

Does anyone except the media want it?

I don’t mind it in principle, the problem with all of this stuff is what ever ofal house touches, it’s purely in the interests of the bottom line and not fairness of the competition.
So they’ll mess it up.

 

[Val Keating]

I don’t mind it in principle, the problem with all of this stuff is what ever ofal house touches, it’s purely in the interests of the bottom line and not fairness of the competition.
So they’ll mess it up.

Knowing the AFL they’ll bring it in with some really contrived and convoluted way.

 

[ferball]

I don’t mind it in principle, the problem with all of this stuff is what ever ofal house touches, it’s purely in the interests of the bottom line and not fairness of the competition.
So they’ll mess it up.

It could be cancerous. If you're a good player in a s**t side and get wind of an offer with a contending side mid season, are you gonna go as hard and risk your potential contract? That could really heck with the chemistry in a struggling side.

 

[DesertRoo]

It could be cancerous. If you're a good player in a s**t side and get wind of an offer with a contending side mid season, are you gonna go as hard and risk your potential contract? That could really * with the chemistry in a struggling side.

Player sounds cancerous anyways, why would you keep that player in the environment.

you could think of it the other way also, teams down the bottom might be able to grab some experienced players pretty cheaply.

Player movement isn’t the issue, its how the afl has set it up is.

 

[Colby Cheer Squad]

Mid season trade would only benefit the big clubs and finals sides - it would destroy the bottom teams

Good way to turn the AFL into the EPL where 3-4 clubs raffle the premiership between them for decades.

 

[Roosurgence]

Phoning it in?

 

[LETSGOKANGAS]

If we could bring in a big bodied seasoned mid towards the end of their career, what could we potentially get for LDU?

Ive made my peace with him not caring for our club and is gone.

 

[tazaa]

Has well and truly checked out

 

[Nylex]

He’s going through the motions