281
🇦🇺
Five-eighth,
Halfback,
Active
Debut: 2023-05-27
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Age
183
Ht
86
Wt
↓35%
Form
281
🇦🇺
Five-eighth,
Halfback,
Active
Debut: 2023-05-27
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Age
183
Ht
86
Wt
↓35%
Form
Player Luke Metcalf
- Thread starter WahsaurusRex
- Start date
- Date of Birth
- Mar 1, 1999
- Birth Location
- Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
- Nationality
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Height (cm)
- 183 cm
- Weight (kg)
- 86 kg
- Position/s
- Five-Eighth
- Halfback
- Nickname
- Luka Mikafu
- Warrior #
- 281
- NRL Debut Date
- Aug 2, 2021
- NRL Debut Details
- NRL 2021, Round 20, Cronulla Sharks Vs Manly Sea Eagles
- Warriors Debut Date
- May 27, 2023
- Warriors Debut Details
- NRL 2023, Round 13, Brisbane Broncos
- Warriors Years Active
- 2023
- 2024
- 2025
- Signed From
- Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
- Status
- Active
- Rugby League Project
- https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/luke-metcalf/summary.html
CWC
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I know it’s divisive but if he can work out over a preseason at FB and model Walsh or Ponga, this is what next year looks like
1. Metcalf
2. WW
3. Anderson
4. Ali
5. AKP
6. CHT
7. Boyd (Jett/Linnane/Hansen/Thompson back up)
Cons: kick returns, running at back
Pros: avoid front line contact on D and shuttle runs, lethal support play and 2nd/3rd receiver and play Ponga like, justifies salary, keep star status
Work ons: high balls, line D like Walsh, dive on ground before kick return contact
The “ceiling” is high here
1. Metcalf
2. WW
3. Anderson
4. Ali
5. AKP
6. CHT
7. Boyd (Jett/Linnane/Hansen/Thompson back up)
Cons: kick returns, running at back
Pros: avoid front line contact on D and shuttle runs, lethal support play and 2nd/3rd receiver and play Ponga like, justifies salary, keep star status
Work ons: high balls, line D like Walsh, dive on ground before kick return contact
The “ceiling” is high here
Noitall
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Check this guy straight out of surgery and footy on his mind
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Check this guy straight out of surgery and footy on his mind
How can you say no to that?!?!
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Check this guy straight out of surgery and footy on his mind
Meh, I do it all the time.
Until my wife hits me over the head and yells “stop sleep talking !!!”
I hope that’s an old clip
He's a student of the game, a real footy need. Hopefully we see him managed really well on his recovery.Meh, I do it all the time.
Until my wife hits me over the head and yells “stop sleep talking !!!”
I hope that’s an old clip
Even playing reserve grade.
If I was coach I would want every player to also be fan of the game. To talk live and breath league. We all know that hasn’t been the case in the past. Too many casuals selected on pure talent and potential with no love for the sport.
My thoughts on Mets are that there's a big chance that he never gets back to his best friend
His biggest asset is obviously his speed off the mark and his speed is probably the first thing to be compromised by his injuries
Unfortunate because for a team to win the comp has to have his type of x factor.
Boyd is going great guns but is not a game breaker at this point in time
I would love to be proven wrong
Speed players tend to peak in their early 20’s. Metcalf is 27. But 30 his explosive speed will be gone.
Lucky he’s a student of the game because he needs to do an SJ and really develop his game management.
Unfortunately, he’s also got the pressure of Boyd, a high salary and irregular game time through injury to try to execute it all.
Wahs_Ultras
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Rumour overdrive at the moment regarding Metcalf, but have read on a couple of forums that they’ve somehow heard that Metcalf has been diagnosed with chronic ligament damage to his hamstring. This is the result of persistent overloading, poor healing, or incomplete rehabilitation of an acute strain.
Obviously take this with a grain of salt, but it wouldn’t surprise me given his poor run with hammy injuries.
Obviously take this with a grain of salt, but it wouldn’t surprise me given his poor run with hammy injuries.
If true, that could lead to a Volkmann situation for the next buyer.
Wahs_Ultras
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If he lands at the dragons, I’m sure they won’t care. They’ll just about take any half at this stage
CWC
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If he lands at the dragons, I’m sure they won’t care. They’ll just about take any half at this stage
Chocolate hammys?
Let's just facilitate his move to a new club and move on. A 27 year old who's only played 40 odd games due to injuries, with pace being his biggest asset, yet he has shot hammies? He's doing us a favour here.
In all of this, the word entitled keeps popping into my head
Cces
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Win/win for both parties if he can stick around for the remainder of the season & not be a destabilizing influence. No point paying him $1.8M across '27-'28 to be a back up.
If he was leaving for more money it'd be a different story but I just think his main driver is he wants to play regularly while he can. On top of injuries, he played bugger all in 2020-21 due to cancellation of NSW Cup comp. CNK & Erin Clarke once left us early for the same reason
If he was leaving for more money it'd be a different story but I just think his main driver is he wants to play regularly while he can. On top of injuries, he played bugger all in 2020-21 due to cancellation of NSW Cup comp. CNK & Erin Clarke once left us early for the same reason
