Luders was The Bloods' leading goalkicker from 1979 until 1984 with his supreme year coming in 1983 when he became the first West Adelaide player to ever kick over 100 goals in a season.
Two weeks later, Luders kicked four goals in West Adelaide's 21.16 (142) to 16.12 (108) win over Sturt in the SANFL Grand Final to finish with 105 for the season, still the club record as of 2022.
During the early 1980s, Luders regularly vied with other champion full forwards in the SANFL at the time such as Tim Evans (Port Adelaide), Rick Davies (Sturt), Grenville Dietrich (North Adelaide) and Neville Roberts (Norwood) for the Ken Farmer Medal, awarded annually to the SANFL's leading goal kicker.
In Round 17 of the 1985 season in a game at Wests home ground of Richmond Oval, Luders had his jaw broken in two places after a clash with North Adelaide's Stephen Riley; Luders had taken a mark about 30 metres out from goal at the ground's southern end when Riley jumped at him late with a raised elbow.
Luders, who had kicked 52 goals for the season until that point, would spend 48 hours in hospital in intensive care and was forced to miss the rest of the season[2] including West's return to the finals where they eventually finished third (a spate of injuries had seen West Adelaide had only finished sixth in their premiership defence in 1984).