Former #22 Matthew Leuenberger

What sane person approaching the prime of their career would have wanted to come to us in the last 3 years???

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Heā€™s not winning hitouts to advantage, not doing anything useful across the ground and is shanking/missing easy disposals and hurting us with turnovers. Ruckman arenā€™t immune to getting dropped so Smack/Belly are in line.

Gee we couldā€™ve had Taylor Adams!!! Wowee what a player.
We need guys who can run and kick as well.

Luenburger is completely useless. Does nothing around the ground and canā€™t go forward and kick a goal. He wins hitouts but whatā€™s the point when most donā€™t go to advantage and the other team wins the clearances. Rather have Mckernan as can have an impact around the ground and can go forward.

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My kingdom for an ignore buttonā€¦

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Lueuy > Smack every day of the week.
And absolute madness for people wanting TBC in the side over him also

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too true, bring in drape-dog.

give collingwood some big cox action back.

What about Luenberger? he had a choice between Essendon and Sydney and he picked us.

knew heā€™d get game time, also our facilities are good for someone with a broken body.

Thatā€™s true.

No more excuses all the bs of the last 4 years is gone now if there is a gun mid available on the market we must target them.

Seriously.
Htf canā€™t there be one??

Where the ā– ā– ā– ā–  has it gone? Itā€™s not worth being here without one.

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I think people are forgetting the TBell conversations prior to and after his last run at it.

Plenty of talk he offers more around the ground and up forward than just a tap ruckman. He then proceeded to come in and run out of gas after the second quarter and drop every mark that came his way.

Our rucks are only sevicable at the moment. Looneyburger is the best of an average bunch.

From memory, there was a comment ā€œhe waltzed around like a farkin ballarinaā€¦ā€

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Leuenberger seems to actually hate having the ball in his hands, dishes it off as soon as he can with complete disregard for his team mates.

Is he a better tap ruckman than Bellchambers?

Bellcho was making school children of VFL players so will be interesting what happens this week.

heā€™d do so much good work to get front of the ruck contest and hands to it, and then do nothing with the ball, more often than not seemed to palm to down to collingwood players. when he shouldā€™ve just thumped the ball to our goal.

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Thought he was decent today, never going to be a ruckman that gets a ton of stats but loved his effort and endeavour. Love that he is willing to get on the bottom of packs and fight for it and was one of our best tacklers today. Won us a lot of stoppages due to his pressure acts. Had the better of Grundy today who would probably be the AA ruck if it was done ATM

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Thought he was really good yesterday. Grundy is a very solid ruckman and without seeing any stats feel he had the better of him most of the day. Belly obviously banging down the door in the VFL from a forward point of view but a straight swap would be harsh on Luey.

This.

Grundy has been very dominant the last few weeks, one of the form ruckmen of the league. To curb his influence and break even with him was an underrated part of our win.

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