Absolutely - such a great mini doco, what a lovely kid he appears to be, so happy for him he deserves a great career.
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After watching that you just want Luamon to be happy. And if that means playing AFL then you just want him to make it.
Also wish we drafted George Stevens so these two could hang out and support each other.
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The thing I want to know about these NGAs is what exactly did the club do that made it so they got drafted? Like Lual grow up in footy mad country vic and went through all of the classic footy pathways. JUH is the same, like he was ALWAYS going to make it onto an AFL list, what exactly did the dogs do? If they find someone athletic who is 16y/o and has never played the game and get them into the academy then yeah I’d understand.
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Imagine 90,000 Essendon fans yodeling when he gets the ball and streams forward.
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He’s partially responsible for our 20 years of shitness, they should ■■■■■■■ love him. ■■■■■■■ weirdos
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It’s all here:
Stringers love for bucket hats is a thing of beauty.
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Beautiful goal from 50
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Both should be playing for the dogs too.
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He looks very familiar…
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Jackets is neither as good nor as bad as people make him out to be.
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Someone should share this to the big footy dogs page
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This is exactly it and the difference between the Victorian academies and northern ones. The Vic clubs a lot of the times don’t put any work in then expect to get the kid cheap as chips. It’s what ruined the nga’s in my opinion.
Add to that as mentioned earlier, situations like north finding out Riley Sanders is 1/20th indigenous a few months ago, then adding him to their academy and expecting to get him. Same with the hawks and jiath.
If the matching bids number is to drop to 20 or lower, it needs to be much better controlled so that clubs actually put effort into a player over years and the player actually comes from a proper multicultural background.
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Henceforth he shall be known as Lu Lu, well, by me anyway.
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Fun fact: I believe this marks the first time in the history of the VFL/AFL that someone with the name Luamon Lual has been drafted.
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Also the only player in history with the first 3 letters of his first name being the same as the first 3 letters of his Surname.
- This may not be true.
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Nothing more annoying than a fact checker!
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I know someone with the same first four letters the in both first and second name