Luke Hodge

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12,152 appearances 137 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

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Whateley · The Leadership Portfolio with Luke Hodge | Whateley (28.07.26) · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

Since you're a little kid kicking the football for the first time and finally when you get your opportunity, your body's letting you down.

So they were the first people that sort of came back to me and the resilience that you need to be able to back it up and have the confidence to go through it again.

So his support network at the moment is crucial to make sure that, just keeping on making sure that it's going to be a glass half full mindset for him for a while.

You need to turn that around and support's the best way of doing that.

Well, I think it helps the fact that he's reassurance that he's got a job for the next few years.

Obviously, there's a lot of pressure being that they – pressure that the fact that they re-signed him when he still had years to go and there's obviously been a lot of talk about that, the money that he's on.

especially with what St Kilda have spent over the last few years.

That's probably put him into the same bag as De Kooning and Nass with where their salary cap's going.

So that's a little bit of pressure.

But I think players have to expect that.

This is the way that football's gone with the amount of money that they are earning.

But having a contract there reassuring that you've got a home for the end of that deal and both teams want to part ways.

So that would be reassuring for him.

Yeah, I've sort of mentioned this a number of times over the last couple of years.

I don't understand how players can tackle someone and they get paid holding the ball and they've got the right to shove someone into the ground as they're getting up, a person who's not ready for any contact.

And the AFL and the umpires seem to let that go.

We brought in rules that they scruff the head of someone.

teasing them because they've missed a shot and we've given them a free kick.

So I like that they're making a stand against it because my biggest frustration with it was you see kids at junior level doing the exact same thing.

Just because someone can tackle someone, put them in the ground, get a free kick,

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