Player Watch Welcome to Port Adelaide Jack Lukosius

[Brian McGee]

Jon Ralph:
Gold Coast is confident Port Adelaide will hand over its future first-rounder for top five pick Jack Lukosius given the club has committed to him on a six-year deal.
The Power and Suns have had constructive dialogue on Lukosius’ future and those discussions are expected to advance in coming days.
Lukosius chose the Power over Adelaide on a deal of up to a million dollars a season.
Suns list boss Craig Cameron said on Monday he expected smooth progress on the trade.

Happy to hand over a future first if something else reasonable comes back with lukosious. So a downgrade from our first to a second or similar. And as far as committing to him over 6 years goes, that’s surely to even out the 2 years that they were due to overpay him and didn’t want to. They already got the cheap years out of him and don’t want to pay the rest when it came time.

 

[powermacs]

I’d handover a future 1st if we can get pick 13.

 

[davesnothere]

I’d handover a future 1st if we can get pick 13.

We should be working around this and I'm sure we are.

 

[TazD]

We're so dumb. Publicly offer him an additional year, plus the two already owed. Then extend his contract when he's already here.

 

[dirty2]

Neither are they.

But they will at least try. Another bad season next season and Nick's will get sacked.

Can you say the same about Hinkley?

 

[OneGreatClub]

 

[gbear]

Honestly, two first round picks is too much for Houston but Lukosius is worth a future 1R. Carn.

It’s ridiculous, isn’t it?

 

[PJ Power]

It’s ridiculous, isn’t it?

The thing with Lukosius is that it’s gone past being able to talk about potential. He’s completed six years in an AFL system and is not a top-10 player at Gold Coast, moreover being dropped more than once in 2024. The suggestion of a F1R is based on the fact he is contracted but that is counterbalanced by the amount of money keeping him on GC’s list will cost them.

We gave up pick 30ish for Watts (and it has continued to hurt us watching Fritsch be a darn good player). Lukosius is not worth a lot more than Watts was. Probably pick 20-25 given that we will be offloading some or a lot of his salary from GC’s books.

No-one here seriously expects Lukosius to dominate for us. He’ll be handy and play some nice games. Maybe he’ll have 1-2 cracking seasons. But he’s not going to produce consistent top 5 on our list level football over several years the way Houston will.

 

[port_adelaide_1870]

This deal will get done easy by the sounds of the GC list boss and CD. Both saying that talks are going well and expect things to transpire by the end of the week.

Hopefully that doesn’t mean we have rolled over and just offered them a future first

 

[Port 2004]

But they will at least try. Another bad season next season and Nick's will get sacked.

Can you say the same about Hinkley?

Yes. I think Hinckley will be gone at the end of 2025. With a little bit of luck maybe earlier. Mind, I would have sacked him before now.

 

[Gryllis]

Hopefully that doesn’t mean we have rolled over and just offered them a future first

Hopefully there's more to it if we have - and that's not just the AFL granting the exemption we currently need.

It would be very funny if it resulted in pick 13 coming our way through this deal, after Coll/Carl told the media to assign that to Houston's worth.

We wouldn't need the exemption if we trade in another first rounder this year. No idea if that's beneficial to Gold Coast, but it sounds like their annual giveaway is pick 13 this year.

 

[Frank Hansen II]

It was only two years ago when the Premier Geelong got Jack Bowes

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Jack Bowes

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6.6

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3.9

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2.5

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318.1

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D

18.0

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11.8

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6.3

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5.4

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1.1

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318.1

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11.6

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6.4

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2.4

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from GC along with Pick 7 and only had to give up a future third round pick. No point, just wanted to put in the reminder.

 

[MrChow]

Luko and Pick 13 for Future 1st and DBJ.

 

[Addy23]

Luko and Pick 13 for Future 1st and DBJ.

Luko and Pick 13 for F1 and McEntee

 

[shewho]

A late first (or our future 1st) is the right price. Even a year ago his price would’ve been 2 x 1sts.

People are seriously underestimating how good Lukosius will be for Port.

 

[Addy23]

A late first (or our future 1st) is the right price. Even a year ago his price would’ve been 2 x 1sts.

People are seriously underestimating how good Lukosius will be for Port.

Or you're seriously overestimating Luko's career so far. Suns dropped him, don't really want him, have a big contract to pay out. Last year he'd have been a mid-late first. This year, after he was dropped, he's worth an early-mid 2nd rounder.

 

[rogerjames]

It was only two years ago when the Premier Geelong got Jack Bowes from GC along with Pick 7 and only had to give up a future third round pick. No point, just wanted to put in the reminder.

Gotta luv this corrupt competition

 

[Coobk001]

A late first (or our future 1st) is the right price. Even a year ago his price would’ve been 2 x 1sts.

People are seriously underestimating how good Lukosius will be for Port.

Yeah nah, Luko is massively over rated because of his draft standing and the desire of the SA public to bring our own home.

His career has been a flop so far, and he may play a role but as PJ said above, anyone that expects more than that has unrealistic expectations.

Losing a F1 for Luko could be disastrous if we have a poor season next year

 

[Bevoman]

Yes. I think Hinckley will be gone at the end of 2025. With a little bit of luck maybe earlier. Mind, I would have sacked him before now.

Agree, Ken will not be sacked his contract will simple not be re-newed.

 

[Portology]

If we modestly overpay for Luko in terms of draft and leave GC with some portion of his remaining contract salary, might there be enough space in our cap to help the Houston situation simply go away with a mid term contract adjustment (assuming that is even a thing)? And if no dollar shifting, that 13 for F1 sounds... reasonable, if we keep Houston.

I for one would like to see Houston-to-Luko as someone's BF username.

 

[Grave Danger]

It was only two years ago when the Premier Geelong got Jack Bowes from GC along with Pick 7 and only had to give up a future third round pick. No point, just wanted to put in the reminder.

That's when the ACCC should have stepped in.

 

[MrChow]

Don’t be fooled. Luko is a fringe tall forward or defender, in a side that couldn’t make finals. Even with key forward tax, his “potential” and GC covering part of his salary, his value is probably around pick 25.

Last year we traded a future first for pick 23 and a future 2nd. So purely on points, if we were to part with our future first, we would be getting Gold Coasts future 2nd back and Luko.

Holding the future first is important to us, and the other option is then to trade players or future picks to upgrade our Pick 39. I could see us using our future 2nd, Soldo and perhaps someone else to upgrade the 39 to get it into the mid 20s.

The last piece of the puzzle would be on Gold Coast, if they want a future first for points to trade that Pick possibly even on draft night for a future first.

 

[jac147]

Agree, Ken will not be sacked his contract will simple not be re-newed.

I hope that’s the plan!

 

[FishingRick04]

Isn’t he a 30-40 year forward as a baseline? That’s a fair effort, maybe in a more suitable role he could move to 40-50, I don’t know. Mitch and Luko both in the 40-50 goals range would make them too 10 goal kickers and very handy.

 

[carlfromport]

We cannot afford to use a first on him, is two seconds better? We need as much young talent for our next coach as possible.


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