2017 Rd 2 Pre Game Panic Carlton vs Melbourne

[Pratty]

In - McKay, Cuningham, Polson
Out - Armfield, Thomas, Casboult  O0 O:-)

[ElwoodBlues1]

In - McKay, Cuningham, Polson
Out - Armfield, Thomas, Casboult  O0 O:-)

Like it....play the kids and lets see how they go and who can handle the heat......

[flyboy77]

Given those three gave us diddly anyway last week, wtfn?

[BluePhantom]

Given those three gave us diddly anyway last week, wtfn?

I don't understand the love/hate opinion people have of Casboult.
I was at the game and yeah he could've done more but so could've 21 other blokes :
He was still marking strongly and he nailed two lovely set shot goals he would've missed last year.
His confidence is up, 2 from 2 so lets drop him :o
He doesn't get more shots because he is not being played as a stay at home Forward. He plays up the ground with the rest of our bl**dy players leaving open Bolton's Backyard!
He has become a marking link player, marking on the wing and kicking into the Forward 50, whereas he should be the receiver in the 5.
He definitely plays in the Battle of the Beards with Gawn!

[jeza]

I don't understand the love/hate opinion people have of Casboult.
I was at the game and yeah he could've done more but so could've 21 other blokes :
He was still marking strongly and he nailed two lovely set shot goals he would've missed last year.
His confidence is up, 2 from 2 so lets drop him :o
He doesn't get more shots because he is not being played as a stay at home Forward. He plays up the ground with the rest of our bl**dy players leaving open Bolton's Backyard!
He has become a marking link player, marking on the wing and kicking into the Forward 50, whereas he should be the receiver in the 5.
He definitely plays in the Battle of the Beards with Gawn!

I like Casboult as the second ruckman. He gives it a good crack in the ruck (with one notable exception) and definitely offers more than a second genuine ruckman like Phillips around the ground.

[Vivian]

I like Casboult as the second ruckman. He gives it a good crack in the ruck (with one notable exception) and definitely offers more than a second genuine ruckman like Phillips around the ground.

Casboult was a rookie and plays like one.  He has lasted much longer on the list than ideal because we have been so bad, and the past few years of attempts at KP players since fev have failed, i.e. Watson, Mitchell, Jones et al.  He doesn't work hard enough and his kicking is disastrous.  But right now, as we bring younger players in, he needs to play, if anything to give Kreuzer a chop out.  Curnow and McKay are not ready, nor should they be rushed.

If we improve as hoped Casboult will be dropped around round 12-15 and not get another contract.  He aint going to improve, and wishing it so isn't enough.

[cookie2]

What you currently see is what you are ever likely to get with Levi IMO. A non strategic player in our future plans hence his contract situation.

[DJC]

I don't understand the love/hate opinion people have of Casboult.
I was at the game and yeah he could've done more but so could've 21 other blokes :
He was still marking strongly and he nailed two lovely set shot goals he would've missed last year.
His confidence is up, 2 from 2 so lets drop him :o
He doesn't get more shots because he is not being played as a stay at home Forward. He plays up the ground with the rest of our bl**dy players leaving open Bolton's Backyard!
He has become a marking link player, marking on the wing and kicking into the Forward 50, whereas he should be the receiver in the 5.
He definitely plays in the Battle of the Beards with Gawn!

That's pretty much how I saw Casboult's game too, although he kicked 1.1, not two goals.  I was directly behind his first effort and it looked like it was a goal from the moment it left his boot but it tailed off at the last minute.

Anyway, I suspect Bolts and the match committee value Casboult's work just a little higher than those folk who seem to have chosen him as the 2017 whipping boy

[Boundaryrider]

Levi was poor first half good second half. Some were poor all game.

[flyboy77]

I must apologise - clearly I was distracted when I last posted.

I reckon Levi goes ok and part of his 'problem' is that he is used badly imo.

Like the rest of the 22 he clearly needs to raise his hunger levels, intensity, whatever - but he's only part of the wider malaise in that area!