2013 Player Profile: Matthew Leuenberger

[Adamant]

Good write up torps, I can't see him being $204K but i'll pay up to $350, premium ruck every day of the week, a full pre-season and he is locked and loaded.

Still any niggles or doubts and that "bargain pick" ca turn into a nightmare, so he needs to be 100% fit!

+1
I would probs even pay up to 400k for him as he's likely to be a top 5 ruck.

[Football Factory]

Cant see him only being worth 204k .. anything under 300k is an automatic lock for me

[Ricochet]

easily one of my first picked players next year

[nostradamus]

VS uppped Hayes' price last year and l'm expecting them to do it to Luey and a few more this year too

[Ajax22]

VS uppped Hayes' price last year and l'm expecting them to do it to Luey and a few more this year too

Hayes was a champion tho. Berger and lots of the other cheap players are much more unproven so should still all be fairly cheap

[Adamant]

VS uppped Hayes' price last year and l'm expecting them to do it to Luey and a few more this year too

Hayes was a champion tho. Berger and lots of the other cheap players are much more unproven so should still all be fairly cheap

Even if they upped it to say...350k - I would still pay that for a potential top 3 ruck.

[Capper]

if he is fit, he will be a lock in many teams next year

The question is whether to pick him at R2 or R3 as he can be used as a cash cow since he is so cheap. Hopefully guys like Grundy and Daniher dont play R1 so i can downgrade Burger to one of them

[Ricochet]

if he is fit, he will be a lock in many teams next year

The question is whether to pick him at R2 or R3 as he can be used as a cash cow since he is so cheap. Hopefully guys like Grundy and Daniher dont play R1 so i can downgrade Burger to one of them

Yeh I know, think its safer to have him at R2 and use that extra cash elsewhere.
Either he'll dominate and become a keeper or he'll make you enough money for a small upgrade to someone else

[Colliwobblers]

R2 for me that is unless we are starved of rookie options for my R3 and R4.

R1 ... hmmm

[Football Factory]

Injury update: Matthew Leuenberger  15/10/12

We were always planning to modify Leuey’s pre-season program, as you do with someone so big who does a lot of jumping. So even prior to his Achilles injury we had planned to take him through a modified season last year and a modified pre-season this year. Unfortunately in Round 3 over in Perth he sustained the injury, and so went through a long rehab process. So off the back of that, he’ll be ready to start pre-season, but tendon injuries are a little slower to heal than muscles, so it will be modified.

[elephants]

I think that prediction is spot on. He will be a premo but not to the extent he was in 2010 :)

[Adamant]

I think that prediction is spot on. He will be a premo but not to the extent he was in 2010 :)

2010? I would like him to average a little more than 77 ;)

[Ajax22]

I think that prediction is spot on. He will be a premo but not to the extent he was in 2010 :)

2010? I would like him to average a little more than 77 ;)

By the time we would be thinking about upgrading him he would have shaken off all remnants of that injury (assuming he doesn't reinjure himself). His overall average I guess will probably be lower but he could easily start slow and then pull a 95+ average in the back half of the year. I'm picking him hoping he can go 80+ for the first half and then start to pull out the big numbers as the season goes on to dominate in finals!

[Adamant]

I think that prediction is spot on. He will be a premo but not to the extent he was in 2010 :)

2010? I would like him to average a little more than 77 ;)

By the time we would be thinking about upgrading him he would have shaken off all remnants of that injury (assuming he doesn't reinjure himself). His overall average I guess will probably be lower but he could easily start slow and then pull a 95+ average in the back half of the year. I'm picking him hoping he can go 80+ for the first half and then start to pull out the big numbers as the season goes on to dominate in finals!

Haha I know, ele said 2010, when 2011 was the year Leuy dominated and averaged 92 :P

[elephants]

I think that prediction is spot on. He will be a premo but not to the extent he was in 2010 :)

2010? I would like him to average a little more than 77 ;)

By the time we would be thinking about upgrading him he would have shaken off all remnants of that injury (assuming he doesn't reinjure himself). His overall average I guess will probably be lower but he could easily start slow and then pull a 95+ average in the back half of the year. I'm picking him hoping he can go 80+ for the first half and then start to pull out the big numbers as the season goes on to dominate in finals!

Haha I know, ele said 2010, when 2011 was the year Leuy dominated and averaged 92 :P

Oops, my bad. Thanks Ad, 2011 ;)