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He hasn't come on at all in the last 2 years. Very disspointing indeed. Shouldn't be in the side IMO.
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At his best, is well within our best 22, and does his job. Out of form, probably needs a spell in the reserves, and a long chat with some of his fellow players, in order to get his confidence back. No way should we trade him, unless we can get a 2nd round pick for him. I would find that hard to turn down. Perhaps Carlton, who sort of need a tagger and a big tough body, especially one with finals experience, and who have plenty of young players (and as such could afford to give up a 2nd rounder), would be interested. Merely speculation though. I don't think we should trade Ablett unless we genuinely think his career will flourish elsewhere anyway. He has given too much to this club to be thrown out like so much meat.Officially on the Reid and Sumner bandwagon!Comment
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Football is all about putting the best 22 from your list on the park. Unfortunately, atm, Luke Ablett is not in that best 22. Mind you, he 's not alone in being selected and not in the best 22 we could possibly field on any given weekend.Comment
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Kick it to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Same old. Same old.Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.Comment
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Sorry swansrule but i highly disagree with you about him being a decent shot for goal. He is a DIABOLICAL set shot for goal. Probably on par with Brennan. Heck i'd back LRT from a slight angle 40 metres from goal then NOG.
In his warm ups he hooks all of his practice shots for goal and 9/10 he'll do the same in a real game situation.Official Driver Of The "Who Gives A @@@@ As The Player Will Get Delisted Anyway" Bandwagon.
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by decent i meant more that he can kick a pretty good distance 31 goals 41 in his career, ive seen worse.
But i meant it would take a lot of work was just throwing up options rather than arguing it was what should happen.
I just want to see some change in his role so he can contribute to the sideTheres not much left to sayComment
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Fully agree with your assessment. I really like NOG as a Mathews-like good team player, but with his sort of skills, as you have mentioned, the Geelong type run and carry, high-skilled game, is just not suited to his best attributes (as is the case with Benny). I definitely think we should trade him for whatever we can get. I just can't see him getting a game next year with the sort of talent we have coming up.
Nearly certain to be dropped this week, and maybe for the rest of the season, which is not that long anyway.Last edited by Ludwig; 19 August 2008, 06:49 PM.Comment
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Will Geelong want him. Heck lets just give him away for free.Comment
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Not terribly likely to be tradeable (and certainly not tradeable to Geelong-- we might as well try to sell them Playfair), so for NOG it's a question of 'keep or dump?'
With the noises that Roos is making about bringing back Vespa and Jack, NOG isn't likely to play this week. Which will probably mean that barring further injury to others he won't play for us again in 2008.
He will probably be kept, but one of those that we should probably make the tough call on. Particularly if the powers-that-be are bullish enough about Smith and O'Dwyer's prospects to promote them to the senior list.Comment
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In his defence, he is out of form, and so is about half the team.
But he's diabolically slow for a midfielder. With B1 and Kirkie already in the midfield, someone has to make way for legspeed.
THe cliche is that theoretically everyone's tradebait. In NOG's case it's probably more than theoretical.The man who laughs has not yet heard the terrible newsComment
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