Player Watch #11: Luke "Two Dogs" McDonald (Part II) - Steps down from Co-Captaincy for 2025

[kingcarey1]

Luke McDonald: The Resurrection

 

[Themanbun]

 

[Billy Not Really]

Completely different player out there today, he was very good. Kept himself extremely accountable to his man and cleaned up a lot of absolute mess and managed to hit targets, I couldn’t believe my eyes.

 

[Blightys Barrel]

Luke McDonald: The Resurrection

3 weeks too early

 

[DuckYeah]

Gets a pass.

That 3 v 1 though. FMD

 

[GoRoos2023]

Excellent game.

 

[Possession]

Guys, I like Good Lmac

 

[Nylex]

Another cracking game

 

[Lomas]

Not being captain suits him. Maybe tried to do too much then.

 

[gokangas]

Another cracking game

Corrected for your convenience. Auto correct must have stuffed up your post.

 

[Nylex]

Corrected for your convenience. Auto correct must have stuffed up your post.

No, I genuinely think he’s been good all season.
Thought he was in our best handful in round 1.

 

[Roo Beauty]

Immense.

 

[Roos29]

KING

 

[Uncle_Leo]

Has not made a monumental mind numbing mistake all year.

Incredible

 

[por_please_ya]

My partner the North fan and me the Crows fan were at the game today.
Can I say that it's actually a miracle re the transformation. My partner reckons he had a lot of pressure as captain and it probably impacted his performance previously. Now it's like he's free of that burden and actually playing like he should have been!

 

[rooboytom_90]

100% not having the pressure of the captaincy has been great for Luke. He did play some decent footy back end of last year, but one of our best today.

 

[gerry101101]

 

[Jindrrk]

Hell yeh lfg

 

[perplexed]

Everytime he touched it we scored it seemed. I don’t know what game you are watching.

Will was truly awful. But he could take a dump on the field and you would praise its consistency and subtle bouquet.

 

[Themanbun]

Let's get this campaigner to cult hero status ASAP

 

[Northwards]

Luke has never been a bad player. Always had his limitations, especially once the senior core he debuted with moved on/retired or regressed. He had to step up be a top 5 player for us when it was probably never his destiny as a footballer.

He’s courageous, a great contested mark and good defender when there is a little bit of pressure from our forwards and mids.

He is a neat kick when he isn’t trying to/expected to play hero ball and thread the needle. With FOS, Daniel (yesterday wasn’t great admittedly) taking the riskier, aggressive kicks we can see LMac settle in to the role he should’ve always been in if we did right thing and allowed him to be a reliable 4th defender capable of intercepting and being a link in the chain.
This is what he is quite good at. Still only 30. Could do this 2-3 more years as a low cost, reliable player to bridge the gap to a FA signing or (hopefully) hold on and scrap for a spot in contending side.

If you think he’s a bad player you’re not looking closely enough

 

[TruRoo]

Once again - he played well. He's never been a big problem in the scheme of things.

 

[King Corey]

Bandwagoner.

 

[Uncle_Leo]

Luke has never been a bad player.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

He has been poor for the last 2/3 years.

This is what he should’ve been doing as a leader of the football club.

It’s been 12(!) years, but maybe the switch has been flicked.