Player Watch #9: Luke Davies-Uniacke - signs until end 2025! Runner up in the 2022 Syd Barker Medal Award

[giantroo]

 

[Boner Spirit]

Kid has loads of the right stuff. Even when his father was sick and eventually passed on he put his head down and arse up which is a massive feat at such a young age. We lose nothing signing him up on a big fat contract. Take it to the bank.

 

[The Filth Wizard]

Kid has loads of the right stuff. Even when his father was sick and eventually passed on he put his head down and arse up which is a massive feat at such a young age. We lose nothing signing him up on a big fat contract. Take it to the bank.

I agree. Put six years in front of him and say you're the man.

 

[andana]

Geelong v North Melbourne

10 Jeremy Cameron

5

Jeremy Cameron

Age

31

Ht

196cm

Wt

94kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.5

3star

K

9.0

3star

HB

3.4

3star

M

5.4

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

2.6

5star

D

10.0

3star

K

7.1

3star

HB

2.9

2star

M

4.6

4star

T

2.0

3star

G

1.9

5star

D

8.2

2star

K

5.0

2star

HB

3.2

3star

M

4.6

5star

T

2.4

4star

G

2.0

5star

(GEEL)
7 Tom Hawkins

26

Tom Hawkins

Age

36

Ht

197cm

Wt

105kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.2

3star

K

7.9

3star

HB

4.4

3star

M

5.5

5star

T

1.9

4star

G

2.1

5star

D

12.7

3star

K

8.6

3star

HB

4.1

3star

M

5.1

5star

T

2.1

3star

G

1.6

5star

D

7.8

2star

K

5.6

3star

HB

2.2

2star

M

4.2

4star

T

1.0

3star

G

2.2

5star

(GEEL)
6 Cameron Guthrie

29

Cameron Guthrie

Age

32

Ht

187cm

Wt

87kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

17.7

4star

K

8.2

3star

HB

9.5

5star

M

3.1

3star

T

3.9

5star

CL

2.3

4star

D

18.7

4star

K

9.7

4star

HB

9.0

4star

M

4.6

4star

T

3.6

4star

CL

3.3

4star

D

11.0

3star

K

5.0

2star

HB

6.0

4star

M

1.2

2star

T

4.0

5star

CL

0.4

3star

(GEEL)
4 Mitch Duncan (GEEL)
2 Zach Tuohy

2

Zach Tuohy

Age

34

Ht

187cm

Wt

94kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

17.7

4star

K

11.2

4star

HB

6.5

4star

M

3.7

4star

T

1.7

4star

CL

0.7

3star

D

18.9

4star

K

15.4

5star

HB

3.5

2star

M

3.6

4star

T

1.1

2star

CL

1.1

3star

D

11.4

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

4.4

4star

M

2.6

3star

T

1.0

3star

CL

0.4

3star

(GEEL)
1 Luke Davies-Uniacke

9

Luke Davies-uniacke

Age

25

Ht

188cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.1

3star

K

6.5

3star

HB

6.6

4star

M

2.5

3star

T

2.2

4star

CL

2.0

4star

D

7.0

1star

K

3.0

1star

HB

4.0

3star

M

2.0

2star

T

1.0

2star

CL

2.0

4star

D

9.8

3star

K

5.0

2star

HB

4.8

4star

M

1.6

2star

T

1.8

4star

CL

1.2

4star

(NMFC)

 

[blackshadow]

Kid has loads of the right stuff. Even when his father was sick and eventually passed on he put his head down and arse up which is a massive feat at such a young age. We lose nothing signing him up on a big fat contract. Take it to the bank.

And throw in the captaincy.

 

[TheBigHorne]

Geelong v North Melbourne

10 Jeremy Cameron (GEEL)
7 Tom Hawkins (GEEL)
6 Cameron Guthrie (GEEL)
4 Mitch Duncan (GEEL)
2 Zach Tuohy (GEEL)
1 Luke Davies-Uniacke (NMFC)

It truly is not often a player polls coaches votes in a 100+ point loss

 

[andana]

It truly is not often a player polls coaches votes in a 100+ point loss

Those other players are all elite, very experienced types

 

[HBFlanker]

I don't reckon we have had a player like him in the last 20 odd years. Strong, explosive and can go inside and out.

His trajectory over his first 5 years is brilliant, which is very rare that we can say that about any of our players as development is a core issue.

Clearly our best mid at the moment, and will break away again from that pack again in 2023.

The comparison to Petracca stats wise is evident, he just needs to hit the scoreboard a bit more to complete his game.

 

[Ligma]

Just does the basics so well and doesn’t try to take on 1000 players at once

 

[Orange Peanut]

I now agree with the poster who said we should tank to finish bottom in 2017 so we could take him at no. 1

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Absolute shame on those who questioned his clearly evident ability.

And **** Noble for playing him on the HFF for extended periods of games.

 

[gokangas]

Absolute shame on those who questioned his clearly evident ability.

And * Noble for playing him on the HFF for extended periods of games.

I don't think many people doubt his ability. But again he played a dynamite first quarter (sensational) and then just over doubled his stats in the next three. Again could not maintain his levels. And frustrated the hell out of me slipping over - was he playing in Dunlop Volleys? Now before you all come for me my criticism is he rarely plays out 4 quarters. Been at NMFC long enough to have developed a tank. Skills? General quality? As good as we have. But will not be an A lister in my mind till he can run out 4 quarters.

 

[LuvtheKangas]

Absolute shame on those who questioned his clearly evident ability.

And * Noble for playing him on the HFF for extended periods of games.

Plenty of shit judges on this forum. You'll find most of them posted their shit judgement in this thread 1-3 years ago.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

I don't think many people doubt his ability. But again he played a dynamite first quarter (sensational) and then just over doubled his stats in the next three. Again could not maintain his levels. And frustrated the hell out of me slipping over - was he playing in Dunlop Volleys? Now before you all come for me my criticism is he rarely plays out 4 quarters. Been at NMFC long enough to have developed a tank. Skills? General quality? As good as we have. But will not be an A lister in my mind till he can run out 4 quarters.

Absolutely no one in the game will play four quarters gaining 15 disposals a quarter.

He had 21 disposals after QT. He played a full game.

He’s an absolute gun and our best mid.

 

[gokangas]

Absolutely no one in the game will play four quarters gaining 15 disposals a quarter.

He had 21 disposals after QT. He played a full game.

He’s an absolute gun and our best mid.

Yep - true. But I want to see a game with 30 plus possessions with 7 or 8 each quarter. LDU's consistency is his weakness. His quality, skills is not questioned. His ability to play four quarters is questioned.

 

[Themanbun]

Yep - true. But I want to see a game with 30 plus possessions with 7 or 8 each quarter. LDU's consistency is his weakness. His quality, skills is not questioned. His ability to play four quarters is questioned.

With all due respect mate, isn't 14 disposals in the first quarter and 21 thereafter bang on 7 disposals for each of quarters 2, 3 and 4, and double that for quarter 1?

In fact he did actually have 7, 7 and 7 in the last 3/4.

 

[Shermanator]

Absolute shame on those who questioned his clearly evident ability.

And * Noble for playing him on the HFF for extended periods of games.

Plenty of s**t judges on this forum. You'll find most of them posted their s**t judgement in this thread 1-3 years ago.

Amen.

 

[Devington]

Yep - true. But I want to see a game with 30 plus possessions with 7 or 8 each quarter. LDU's consistency is his weakness. His quality, skills is not questioned. His ability to play four quarters is questioned.

You're not likely to see that often until other blokes are fulfilling their end of the bargain too. Just be happy we're at the stage where we're seeing more than just glimpses from LDU

 

[archereleven]

Absolutely no one in the game will play four quarters gaining 15 disposals a quarter.

He had 21 disposals after QT. He played a full game.

He’s an absolute gun and our best mid.

Scott's used Blicavs to hard tag him at stoppages after HT too.

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[Wild Bill]

Geelong v North Melbourne

10 Jeremy Cameron (GEEL)
7 Tom Hawkins (GEEL)
6 Cameron Guthrie (GEEL)
4 Mitch Duncan (GEEL)
2 Zach Tuohy (GEEL)
1 Luke Davies-Uniacke (NMFC)

Amazing to get a vote in 100 point loss.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Amazing to get a vote in 100 point loss.

He was clearly the best midfielder from either side in the park.

 

[Engimal v3]

With all due respect mate, isn't 14 disposals in the first quarter and 21 thereafter bang on 7 disposals for each of quarters 2, 3 and 4, and double that for quarter 1?

In fact he did actually have 7, 7 and 7 in the last 3/4.

Yep, LDU was our 2nd best on the weekend in terms of "time between possessions" (min 15 possessions). He averaged 151 seconds between his 35 possessions, only bettered by Stephenson's 131 seconds.

 

[ferball]

Yep - true. But I want to see a game with 30 plus possessions with 7 or 8 each quarter. LDU's consistency is his weakness. His quality, skills is not questioned. His ability to play four quarters is questioned.

You aren't going to see a 30 possession game if he gets seven each quarter. And what TMB said.

Just relax. Until this year he'd got 30 possessions once. In round 21 last year - 38 possessions. He's done it twice in the last three games. He's just turned 23. Watch the way us climbing up the ladder correlates to him averaging close to 30 possessions a game and regularly getting 35+.

 

[Mcarcherey]

Yep, LDU was our 3rd best on the weekend in terms of "time between possessions". He averaged 208 seconds between his 35 possessions, only bettered by Simpkin (204 sec avg) and Taylor (177 sec avg). He also had double the possessions of Taylor, which is something to consider.

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how does this even work? LDU had 88% ToG and Greenwood had 82% with less than half the possesions, yet he has the same average time between possessions as LDU? that doesn't make sense.

 

[Engimal v3]

how does this even work? LDU had 88% ToG and Greenwood had 82% with less than half the possesions, yet he has the same average time between possessions as LDU? that doesn't make sense.

Because I accidentally left the halftime break in, which was skewing the numbers greatly (corrected now)

LDU was our 2nd best, not 3rd like previously posted.