Player Watch #11: Luke "Two Dogs" McDonald - Roo til end '26

[WesternRoo]

Whose the bloke in the hoodie sitting on the couch pissing himself silly?

Basti?

 

[Pykie]

It's garner.

 

[Groucho]

#21 looks a bit of a graveyard number. Only CJ and John Byrne appear to have achieved anything in it.

Tony Furey was one of those "coulda been anything but for injuries" guys and John Perry is much revered for kicking the winning goal in 1972 against South for our only win for the year. At least we won the close one that year!

 

[TwentyNine]

How would you rate McDonald's debut? I thought it was pretty decent. Not in the best but did his part and had some good moments. Should play Round 2.

 

[jezaroo]

Definately did enough to play next week

 

[Lance Uppercut]

he was good, will be great

 

[Marstermind]

Definately did enough to play next week

Jesus, if Luke McDonald was one of the casualties of tonight's train wreck then I could only assume a he was one of a dozen players dropped.

 

[Carlos Herrrnandez]

A bit of mongrel and arrogance about him, I like.

Scott letting him be isolated deep in defence against Goddard and Chapman, I dislike

 

[Chadwiko]

Honestly thought he was pretty poor except for one or two things. Overall was not great though.

He's young and had a heap of pressure on him. He'll bounce back.

 

[tazaa]

I thought playing a first game on the last line of defence was just shit coaching.
Other than that was okay but overall he was poor tbh.

 

[Roosurgence]

Having a 1st gamer on Chappy and Goddard deep in defence is extremely shit coaching. Luke won't be happy with tonight's performance but he got one hell of a good lesson on what good players can do. Let's hope he sucks it up and comes out ready to fire against the dogs.

 

[GarnerSmash]

I think Luke was solid. I find it hard to rate any performances of any players when no one was running into space to receive, no one was capable of winning a contests, no one was working harder than their opponent.

 

[RooDave]

Absolute disgrace from whoever's job it is to make sure a damn first gamer does NOT get stuck one out in the defensive 50 against either f***ing Goddard or Chappy who lets be honest are both superb experienced footballers. Really really shit me to see that. Are we f***ing trying to ruin the kids confidence??? As a first gamer he is given the easiest tasks and least amount of responsibility NOT this shit. Makes me mad.

 

[utility]

I can only assume the coaches wanted to give him a "Bubba-style welcome to the big house" initiation in his first game. Chapman and Goddard tought him a football lesson this evening.

 

[Heaps of fun]

Baptism of fire. Did some things in his first game that some players will never do, dispossessing Chapman comes to mind (though this was after Chappy slaughtered him in the 1st). Give him a run on the wing next week.

 

[Twinkletoes]

Tough debut on a crappy performing team, for the most part. The good news is that it's done and he'll never have to go through the debutant nerves again.

 

[Pykie]

Should never line up in the BP again. What the **** was McMahon in the side for then ?!

They moved him further up the ground in the last when the game was over, shock horror, he instantly got it 4-5 times. About the same amount of times BMAC got it in around 90 minutes in the same position.

He dominated for Oakleigh out of the center square, he was BOG for Werribee in the finals...............in the midfield

 

[Only Forwards]

Honestly thought he was pretty poor except for one or two things. Overall was not great though.

He's young and had a heap of pressure on him. He'll bounce back.

I have for a while thought he would have to weather a bit of a storm before finding his feet.

He'll be fine.

 

[Gasometer]

Was 'that' kick that resulted in a goal the first kick in AFL?

He will laugh in jest sometime in the future about that on Premiership night.

 

[Dan]

Bit of a mixed bag. Hopefully Luke will get another gig next week.

 

[Only Forwards]

there is no reason to drop him. A first gamer shouldn't cop the axe off the back of that loss.

 

[Ahern2Boof]

Horrendous first kick

 

[Daz]

At times he showed poise, courage, flair and an inability to match it deep in the fwd line against 2 superstars of the game.

 

[Donkey Chop]

Interesting that betstar now has him favorite for the rising star on the back of that game.

 

[King Corey]

Luke acquitted himself well. Yeh there was the opening howler but Mr Endurance who is good enough to be a certified leader did the same thing at a much more crucial point in the match.

Not sure how it translated on tellie but Luke ran pretty hard to contests. He was constantly cramping up and you'd have thought he's the senior player he was yelling at other players and directing traffic.

Not a bad effort for a first gamer especially in a comprehensively shit side.