Which club do you want to draft Luke Ball?

[Sainters66]

Casey Scorpions...

 

[sauce_head]

I can not see him getting any better with age and underlying injuries, so perhaps clogging up the maggies list is the best - would hate him to succeed with another club though.

 

[Cuz2Plugger]

Does Hell have a team?
In that case I'd like to see him go to Hell.

 

[krusden]

being reported in the advertiser in adelaide today that port may yet make a play for him.

Then he won't have to worry about supporters of the saints giving him stick, he'll have to worry about being booed by his oen supporters!

 

[CHBench]

I still dont get it. How can Luke put a $500,000 price tag on his head in the National Draft? It's a free for all, I thought it was only the PSD where players can price themselves.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

being reported in the advertiser in adelaide today that port may yet make a play for him.

Then he won't have to worry about supporters of the saints giving him stick, he'll have to worry about being booed by his oen supporters!

I've only ever seen Port play in melbourne so I don't think I've ever seen a Port supporter up close.

Port would have to be the worst possible result for Luke.

 

[CHBench]

Which team will be the first to be "Tommy-nated"

Yeah I went there

Thank god you didn't go "Tommy-gunned".
Needs to be an automatic ban on anyone who refers to the big irish as "Tommy Gun".

 

[SaintsSeptember]

I hope he is a gun.

 

[Cuz2Plugger]

Can't wait to see that Tommy.............................................
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in action.

I'll throw in a 'Booyakasha'.

 

[Cuz2Plugger]

Did I say Hell before?
Port will do.

Satan= Williams, same difference, sanity etc.

 

[goodie23]

I still dont get it. How can Luke put a $500,000 price tag on his head in the National Draft? It's a free for all, I thought it was only the PSD where players can price themselves.

I think you've always been able to put a price tag on yourself in the National, but it's only come into play the last couple of years when the AFL changed the date of list lodgement 2. Now it's before the National Draft, which means clubs can no longer cling on to players and force them into the pre-season draft.

Or something like that.

 

[roosaints]

Not a side that is going to be challenging in the next 3 years.

So no Geelong, Hawthorn, Collingwood, Carlton, Adelaide or Bulldogs. Any other side I don't really care as it's unlikely to have any impact on us.

To name one, Melbourne. Private school princess belongs there.

 

[krusden]

I've only ever seen Port play in melbourne so I don't think I've ever seen a Port supporter up close.

Port would have to be the worst possible result for Luke.

in the saints game in round 5 in 09 when port started kicking backwards (to try to switch play i think) their fans were booing the living daylights out of them.

the supporters are pretty feral IMO, but there's not too many of them so you can put a space between you and them.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Not a side that is going to be challenging in the next 3 years.

So no Geelong, Hawthorn, Collingwood, Carlton, Adelaide or Bulldogs. Any other side I don't really care as it's unlikely to have any impact on us.

To name one, Melbourne. Private school princess belongs there.

I'm still not sure if Collingwood will be challenging in the near future.
They were 4th this year in a pretty easy fixture, but they were a long way off Geelong, Bulldogs, and Saints, and it will take more than Luke Ball to make up the difference. I think I rate them less than the Lions at the moment.
Essendon were able to really worry us this year, but other teams didn't seem to cope so badly against them.
We'll have to see what Carlton can cook up without Fev.

 

[Zvim]

Realistically who would take him?

I think Melbourne (18), Essendon (26) and Collingwood (30) are the most likely options.

North and Richmond both have new coaches so I'm not sure if they would take the chance on him.

He is the same age as MacDonald from Brisbane who is training with us atm. We aren't a certainty to draft MacDonald, but 25 isn't too bad.

With Simpson and Harris departing it would give room to have someone with a bit of experience in the middle. He is only a few years older than guys like Swallow but he has a fair bit of experience for his age, having played 140 odd games, currently we only have 4 guys on our list with more than 140 games and one of those players is only on the list because he has one more year left on his contracted.

I just don't see a scenario where he would be available at pick 21 and can't see us using pick 5 on him. According to Scott, he must also want to play with us. If he didn't then we wouldn't draft him.

 

[skipper kelly]

Sydney if he is going cheap.

 

[goodie23]

Sydney if he is going cheap.

If he was going cheap, he'd be at Collingwood

 

[dswan]

Collingwood lol. He isnt worth much though!

 

[CHBench]

^Fail.

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/sport/afl/story/0,26547,26350964-5016212,00.html

The dog couldn't let us know during trade week?

 

[Squizz]

Yes, that would be a "nice to know" from Paul Connors.

As if Ball would take a year off - nice try.

The whole Ball going O/S twice so clubs couldn't contact him (including any necessary medical testing) is pathetic. I thought Ball was more of a man than that.

How good would it be if all clubs did this with players they were after? That's what I thought (pretty _ucked 'eh). Maybe we could've got Lovett for pick 50 by encouraging him to go AWOL?

 

[StFly]

The dog couldn't let us know during trade week?

Does paint it in a somewhat negative scenario considering how easily we traded with Essendon around the Collingwood debarkle for him to come out now and claim either or instead of being obnoxious. I would think it's a manner of priority yet definitely wanting out that forced the call though.

Hypothetically (since I'm obviously neither Luke Ball or Paul Connors) Ball wanted 100% to leave the Saints and go to either Collingwood or Essendon, he'd have a choice of how Lyon would react;

#1: Pick both and probably be traded to Essendon (which might be his second choice) and risk Collingwood (his first choice) not even being seriously entertained.
#2: Pick one team and only one team to force the issue of going there in a trade or walking before playing the field in the ND.

In either scenario, Ball gets the hell out of St Kilda, choice #1 has the higher chance of him being boned with the club disregarding or not trying hard enough with one suitor, choice #2 has an element of risk attached. Ball hasn't exactly been the type to worry about risk int he public eye, so he probably gambled knowing either way he was going to "win" and get out of the Saints.

Not exactly "fair" on us that he now says "yeah Essendon is fine" but ultimately not all that surprising, he's just working his profile now anyway and is no longer an issue to be discussed in any capacity.

In saying that, I cannot wait for his inevitable autobiography.

 

[goodie23]

In saying that, I cannot wait for his inevitable autobiography.

Should get the same ghost writer as Wayne Carey, it was a master of spin, excuses and BS

 

[BrianSpeaking]

Looks like Ball leaving will only strengthen us long term with all of our young guns getting upgraded contracts and $$$.

 

[Saintland]

Would like to see him go to his club of choice.

 

[CHBench]

Voss keen to get Ball, whether the ex-Saint likes it or not

Caroline Wilson | November 15, 2009

LUKE Ball's chances of becoming a Magpie are getting slimmer by the day with Brisbane Lions coach Michael Voss confirming that the club would attempt to recruit the former Saint whether he wanted to move north or not.

http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/rfnews/voss-keen-to-get-ball/2009/11/14/1258043834192.html

Sucks to be Luke.