Luke Hodge
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12,152 appearances
137 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
Luke Hodge’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's another injury.
Last played seniors over 750 days ago.
Did his hamstring in the reserves.
So there's a lot of questions that you've got to throw up.
I was pretty strong last week saying that I don't think you should bring him back through the seniors.
More so just the conditioning point of view, more so at Marvel Stadium.
Under the roof, it's a slingshot game of football.
It's back and forth.
I said the same about Darcy Moore in the lead-up before he did his hamstring when he came straight back in as well.
There's a lot more turnovers.
It's back and forth.
Ross, clearly, they believe that he was good to go.
Ross came up with all these high-speed meters that he'd done at training, and they were fully confident that what he was doing at training was higher intensity than what he would do in a game.
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?
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