Luke Hodge
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12,152 appearances
137 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Luke Hodge’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We've said for a long period of time, it's very hard to...
to be able to get match intensity at training and it's a massive difference going from what you do on the training track and you can you can say when you're going to go when you can break because it's training it's just putting k's into your body and putting high speed meters into your body in a game situation it's a total different it's a total different you don't you don't pick and choose you got to react on where the ball goes and and your body has to be ready to um handle that kind of situation
So I didn't think that was a smart move, bringing him straight back in.
The other part, which is the more sensitive part for a player who's struggled to put in games of football, he's played seven years of football.
He's played under 12 games in four of those years.
And he's played, that's only his first game, as you said, in the 700 games.
But the main part for me is, was he mentally ready to play football?
So you look at the side of things and go, what's the positive about bringing him from VFL compared to the AFL?
And obviously the AFL is where they want him to play and they can hide him.
We're having this extra fifth on the bench.
Coaches can sit there and think, well, let's put him on when we need him.
Same as the Pendlebury did at opening round and what Sydney did with Papaly.
The bonus about going through the VFL is there's less eyes, which means there's less mania, less reporting and less stress for Max.
If he goes in there and plays and does a hamstring in the second quarter, there's not 30,000 people sitting watching and keeping a move on everything he does.
There's not reporters after the game.
Yes, he'll be reported and yes, his season will be finished.
there's not as much stress on that on on the player to to get up for it um and clearly after his first comments to ross were are you guys done with me he was not in the right mind space to be playing game of football the amount of and you you talk to all the um the sports psychs um and all the folks that have been around football clubs a lot mentally being mentally ready is just as much as being physically ready the amount of stress that you go on the the
The stress the night before the game, the stress in the morning, the warm-up, hoping that you don't embarrass yourself, hoping that your hamstrings can handle, hoping that your knees are okay.
So the stress there that was put through Max, I don't think he was mentally ready to play football where that's why I was pushing that VFL, both physically and mentally, would have been the best spot for him because it would have been less pressure.
Well, everything that St.
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