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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And obviously the AFL is where they want him to play and they can hide him.
With 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 Papali.
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.
But there's not as much stress on the player to get up for it.
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 a football.
The amount of... And you talk to all the sports psychs and all the blokes 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 stress the night before the game, the stress in the morning, the warm-up, hoping that you're...
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.
Kilda have done since then has been the right thing.
It's reassure this player that you're part of our future.
We want you to be here because I think what they've done with this list is they need him there to work.
With Deconin coming in, Marshall, we don't know what's going to happen there.
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