Congratulations to Luke Dahlhaus - 100 games this week.

[Twodogs]

Re: Congratulations to Luke Dahlhaus - 100 games this week.

Interesting. When Liam was traded to Carlton a friend at my work was lamenting the trade. I asked him if you could have any other player from our list who would it be? Answer was Dahlhaus. He said that he gets the job done everywhere.

The friend was a Carlton supporter?

[Eastdog]

Re: Congratulations to Luke Dahlhaus - 100 games this week.

Congratulations Luke. Great effort to reach 100 games.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Congratulations to Luke Dahlhaus - 100 games this week.

Congrats Dahlhaus, I've loved watching you the past few years. Best thing to come out of Geelong (I say as an ex-Geelong resident haha)

[LostDoggy]

Re: Congratulations to Luke Dahlhaus - 100 games this week.

Congrats Dahl.
Tough as nails,gets smashed everyweek and just keeps getting up and onto the next contest.
Inspirational.
Has be one if not the most underated mid/forwardpocket in the league.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Congratulations to Luke Dahlhaus - 100 games this week.

Watching him go about his work live is just a treat. He's so underrated.

Opposition coaches clearly rate him. That's why I get the feeling Jacobs goes straight to him Friday night.

[Smads57]

Re: Congratulations to Luke Dahlhaus - 100 games this week.

Definitely one of the best...congrats Luke on achieving this milestone.

[jeemak]

Re: Congratulations to Luke Dahlhaus - 100 games this week.

He's exceeded my expectations and I just love him as a player.

I've gotten over the fact he'll never be a great kick and will have some issues with goal kicking from time to time. It's allowed me to concentrate on the wonderful things he does in every single other area on the ground. He is fantastic overhead, he possesses strength beyond his stature and it allows him to control contests as well as anyone on the ground, and he's a fantastic ball winner in his own right who has the key attribute I look for in a midfielder - goal scoring ability.

He also seems like a really good kid and proud to be a Bulldog. That's what I love most about him.

[Bulldog4life]

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Congrats to Lukey. Luke is one of my favourites. i Always remember the first time I saw him. It was at The Social Club get together at Etihad the year he was drafted. I was standing near this very young looking guy with dreadlocks and as the food was being passed around to the guests he cheekily reached out and took some and ate it very quickly. One of the other players said to him, "You can't do that". He replied"I'm hungry". I laughed then and still do thinking about it. Sums up Luke's playing style too, a cheeky hungry little player.

[whythelongface]

Re: Congratulations to Luke Dahlhaus - 100 games this week.

Luke is a legend and epitomises the spirit and nature of this club. Well done on reaching the 100 game milestone.

And here's to think that I thought he was trade bait after the 2014 season. How wrong I was.

[Ghost Dog]

Re: Congratulations to Luke Dahlhaus - 100 games this week.

He's exceeded my expectations and I just love him as a player.

I've gotten over the fact he'll never be a great kick and will have some issues with goal kicking from time to time. It's allowed me to concentrate on the wonderful things he does in every single other area on the ground. He is fantastic overhead, he possesses strength beyond his stature and it allows him to control contests as well as anyone on the ground, and he's a fantastic ball winner in his own right who has the key attribute I look for in a midfielder - goal scoring ability.

He also seems like a really good kid and proud to be a Bulldog. That's what I love most about him.

Dalrymple disagrees with you there. Don't agree about the kicking. His low kicking accuracy is what put him under the radar of many clubs. Dalrymple ( I think ) said in an interview he came to realise many of his kicks were under a furious amount of pressure. He is, in fact a pretty good kick. To compare examples, Biggs is also one of the least accurate in our club, yet it's because he takes risks.
Our recruiting team, who watched Luke early in his career, didn't think Luke was a bad kick at all and drafted him thus. Goal a game speaks for itself. I'll dig out the interview if I get time, but thanks to his perceived poor kicking, we were able to draft an absolute gun.

[Bornadog]

Re: Congratulations to Luke Dahlhaus - 100 games this week.

Dalrymple disagrees with you there. Don't agree about the kicking. His low kicking accuracy is what put him under the radar of many clubs. Dalrymple ( I think ) said in an interview he came to realise many of his kicks were under a furious amount of pressure. He is, in fact a pretty good kick. To compare examples, Biggs is also one of the least accurate in our club, yet it's because he takes risks.
Our recruiting team, who watched Luke early in his career, didn't think Luke was a bad kick at all and drafted him thus. Goal a game speaks for itself. I'll dig out the interview if I get time, but thanks to his perceived poor kicking, we were able to draft an absolute gun.

Dahl is a shocking set shot goal kicker.

[Greystache]

Re: Congratulations to Luke Dahlhaus - 100 games this week.

Dahl is a shocking set shot goal kicker.

He's also a terrible kick on the run for goal. On a snap, or under pressure out of a pack he's fine, but running into goal I mark it down as a behind before he evens kicks it.

Dahlhaus makes up for it in many other areas, but if he was even just an average kick at goal he'd be elite.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Re: Congratulations to Luke Dahlhaus - 100 games this week.

He's also a terrible kick on the run for goal. On a snap, or under pressure out of a pack he's fine, but running into goal I mark it down as a behind before he evens kicks it.

Dahlhaus makes up for it in many other areas, but if he was even just an average kick at goal he'd be elite.

When Dahl first started with us, he was actually OK but his last 2-3 years have been awful in front of goal.

If he were adequate, I'd have him in the top 15-20 players in the game.

Still love the way he goes about it though.

[Twodogs]

Re: Congratulations to Luke Dahlhaus - 100 games this week.

He thinks his way through a situation as well as any player I've seen.

[ratsmac]

Re: Congratulations to Luke Dahlhaus - 100 games this week.

Congrats Dahl on an amazing 100 games.

He often sets the tone for applying pressure on the opposition. Always gives 110% and often turns a situation where we all out of position, but he manages to lay a great tackle and get the turn over and turn it into a score our way.

Lots of love for Dahl!