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His old man played one of the best finals games seen by a North Melbourne player in the modern era - the '85 Elimination final. A 6'2 part time ruck against Madden at about 6'8 - DMac fought the big battle all day and won it - other than Schimma and Johny Holt that day he was one of our vmp's.I think his old man was the worst footballer to play over 100 games for North, 150 or so I think in the end. I remember him kicking a bag of goals against Fitzroy I think in 1983 but he had the Krakouer boys, Abernathy, Hodgeman, Tanner etc hitting him lace out. We just didn't have any decent tall forwards during this era, and as Donald was over 6ft2 he was carried in the team. Young Luke seems like a nice kid but he should be replaced sooner rather than later by Hardeman or Bergman in my opinion.
That said enough is enough with LMac - he can't live off his old man's name all his career - the time has come to pull the pin.
No one likes this situation - but unfortunately it must be done if we are serious about improving as a football team.