(07-10-2017, 06:14 AM)kruddler link Wrote:I'll forgive your 'knowing i hate casboult', because your comprehension skills are not great. Here's why.
Jack is 18, not 19.
More of Casboults shots go OOB, yes he's taken more, but more go OOB. Your own %'s tell you that. What you are saying suits MY argument, not yours.
I don't buy the rhetoric that Casboult would get a game at any other club or that we'd be stuffed without him. That was the same talk we had when we were going to get rid of Fev. Our best season in recent history came the exact year after we ditched him.
Acknowledging, repeatedly, that Casboult is the best mark in the game is hardly ignoring the good you accuse me of.
Casboult played well. Haven't seen many better games from him.
Answer me this. If a team has their key forward play one of the best games they've had him play. How often does that team lose? How often does that player end up with only 1 goal to his name? The problem i have is that we are celebrating mediocrity.
Casboult tries his guts out more often than not and while he continues to do that i will pick him every game. Same reason i prefer White, Daisy, Fisher types who may not have a complete skill set. That doesn't mean we shouldn't strive for better....and there are better out there.
Without wanting to be petty about it Jack is 19 not 18. Comprehension skills still intact then.
Losing Betts, Garlett, Waite, Fevola, Everitt... and every other forward of any note is not a strategy that has served us well to this point in my opinion. You clearly don't share that view but I'd say having the lowest score in the AFL at the minute is in some way not helped by losing all of our forwards. Losing Casboult would be a disastrous continuation of that problem. Complete and total disaster. Keep him and add to him. Don't lose him to FA for FA.
Stringer, both Reiwoldts, Bruce, Franklin, Toby Greene, Fasolo, Zorko, Sam Reid, Lecras, Martin, Tom Lynch, Waite, McCarthy, Peter Wright and yes Jack Silvagni....... all worse goal kicking accuracy than Cas this year according to the AFL website which I believe takes into account all shots at goal not just goals / behinds.