Player Watch #11: Luke "Two Dogs" McDonald (Part II) - Roo til end '26 - 2023/24 co captain w/ Jy

[DuckYeah]

When you choose a captain, you need to tick off at least a few things.
1. Automatic selection - he shouldn't be.
2. Leads on track and over the preseason - dont know, assume he does
3 . Media and supporter groups - no profile that we can see but could do the supporter stuff, idk.
4. Coach on field, steps up in crisis - no evidence - actually panics.
5. Doesnt have to star but can make almost no mistakes - clearly fails this. Terrible mistakes.
6. Does small things well - again,fail
7. Drives standards on field - holds team mates accountable.
8. Leads by personal playing example - can be by starring offensively or more importantly with courage/defensive effort.

He maybe ticks off one. Captains need to be conpletely dependable. Thats why he cant be captain and should never have been. Having corr and lmac as leaders is holding us back so badly, whatever the players say.

I suspect this will change over the off season.

 

[DuckYeah]

Daniel Motlop pick 8 also.

Maybe we should trade back if we ever cop this pick again.

Wasn’t pock 8 what we swapped futures for with godees? Maybe it was a good idea afterall

 

[northbergs]

Clarko should do what Pagan did to him in the 90s as the younger and better talent emerged - plonk him in the reserves to captain them and don’t come back.


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[King Corey]

Wasn’t pock 8 what we swapped futures for with godees? Maybe it was a good idea afterall

Yeh the Serong pick. Bullet dodged.

 

[DuckYeah]

Yeh the Serong pick. Bullet dodged.

Sure we would have grabbed him?

 

[bennymate]

His old man still buzzes around the club like a fly to shit, wouldn't be surprised if he somehow gets extended beyond 2026..

 

[Uncle_Leo]

His old man still buzzes around the club like a fly to shit, wouldn't be surprised if he somehow gets extended beyond 2026..

Donald still employed

I think much like Dodoro at Essendon, Donald knows where the dead bodies are and if he were to go it would all come out

 

[bennymate]

Donald still employed

I think much like Dodoro at Essendon, Donald knows where the dead bodies are and if he were to go it would all come out

Yep, we're stuck with him until he retires.

 

[blackshadow]

He was okay in the middle in 2017.

For one game.

 

[koshari]

Donald still employed

I think much like Dodoro at Essendon, Donald knows where the dead bodies are and if he were to go it would all come out

Huge possibility he has shared the knowledge with sleevo

 

[koshari]

Yep, we're stuck with him until he retires.

Spitta was playing better footy when he was dropped.

 

[ChairmanZia]

I was in Hobart that day - was my birthday and it was amazing!

But that's one game in a career of almost 200 games where he's performed like a top 10 draft pick. It's not remotely good enough.

Perhaps some blame need to be put on successive coaches in that majority of them only saw mcdonald's surface value and lacked vision. If a malthouse or clarkson was to be his coach from early days, he could have turned into an attacking midfielder for all we know. Now his playing style has consolidated to become an average skilled medium defender.

 

[King Corey]

Sure we would have grabbed him?

We got excited by the paper upside of the deal - 1 pick out, 3 in.

Barely factored in the opportunity cost.

(This is not assumption)

 

[shinboner magic]

Daniel Motlop pick 8 also.

Maybe we should trade back if we ever cop this pick again.

Wasn’t trotter a pick 8 and mcintosh

 

[ferball]

Perhaps some blame need to be put on successive coaches in that majority of them only saw mcdonald's surface value and lacked vision. If a malthouse or clarkson was to be his coach from early days, he could have turned into an attacking midfielder for all we know. Now his playing style has consolidated to become an average skilled medium defender.

His best season came after Shaw got into him about getting fitter then appeared to use him in a way that benefited from that fitness.

 

[Devington]

Please, lord almighty, double down on whatever the **** he was doing in the weeks prior to this rather than this last game. The blood rushes to his head are absolute career killers, and them being by one of our senior players, a captain no less, is enough to cause despair. if the best he can do these days is by being a dour lockdown defender then please just stick to that. KISS to the extreme. I'd rather he handball to an opponent's feet than ever kick long again.

Father-Son.
BFNAAK.
Pick 8.
Syd Barker medalist.
Co-Captain.


Yet consistently puts his hand up to be ranked as one of our worst senior players most weeks, for a longer period than I want to even think about. He's only 29. With 2 years to go on his contract. ****.

 

[SonofSamsquanch]

I'd rather he handball to an opponent's feet than ever kick long again.

The plan should be for him to kick or handball directly to an opponent. That might result in the ball hitting one of our guys on the chest lace out.

 

[shinboner magic]

Haven’t seen a player that doesn’t want the ball to go to him and if it the ball does land in his hand he finds the nearest opponent to get tackled by.

 

[ChairmanZia]

His best season came after Shaw got into him about getting fitter then appeared to use him in a way that benefited from that fitness.

So why was that no preserved?

 

[ferball]

So why was that no preserved?

I dunno. The hub was a nightmare, Noble was ****ed and here we are.

 

[King Corey]

Wasn’t trotter a pick 8 and mcintosh

Hamish was 9.

 

[tazaa]

F*** he was bad.
Worse on the replay.

I get it now, but bloody hell i didn’t realise my expectations were so low.

 

[Possession]

Moving past this guy will be part of our next step forward. He has been serviceable these past few weeks or so but I don't think he can rise above that. With Jy out last Sunday he needed to step up as captain (especially in the last) and pretty much did the opposite.

 

[Ardent Roo]

Bergman fit and available a better option but we didn't do it. He's not going to get dropped.

 

[RossHenshaw]

Bergman fit and available a better option but we didn't do it. He's not going to get dropped.

Goater > Bergman > LMac