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(03-31-2018, 11:49 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Weitering......the first injury he got to his shoulder has made him timid at the ball, he doesnt want.......
100% spot on, that injury changed him, it literally knocked the confidence & any semblance of courage out of him & he’s been a different player ever since. Give me an AFL player with less influence & less disposals for the minutes he’s played in the first 2 rounds.....you’ll be hard pressed to find one.....
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03-31-2018, 01:31 PM
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(03-31-2018, 01:26 PM)Brettie link Wrote:100% spot on, that injury changed him, it literally knocked the confidence & any semblance of courage out of him & he’s been a different player ever since. Give me an AFL player with less influence & less disposals for the minutes he’s played in the first 2 rounds.....you’ll be hard pressed to find one.....
Hmm, he was BoG just three or four weeks after that shoulder injury, playing as a KPD!
At the end of last season, the last three rounds, he was back playing in defence as the KPD, and was noticeably back to his confident best which was also without Rowe or Marchbank. I read somewhere he led the AFL for intercept marking over the last three rounds, just like the kid we drafted.
It's about time our MC stopped using this kid to patch holes and first let him master the role he's clearly most confident at filling!
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(03-31-2018, 12:55 PM)LP link Wrote:You're joking aren't you!
Can you remind me who took the F50 rucks while Levi was struggling without backup on the last line of defence with Lynch?
I really don't know what you're on about LP : 
Blokes who nominated to contest ruck contests (absolutely stupid rule) included Thomas, Charlie Curnow, O'Shea and (I think) Samo when Levi was having a spell. And of course, Jones had a go in the ruck in the last quarter but didn't manage to get his hand near the ball.
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(03-31-2018, 01:26 PM)Brettie link Wrote:100% spot on, that injury changed him, it literally knocked the confidence & any semblance of courage out of him & he’s been a different player ever since. Give me an AFL player with less influence & less disposals for the minutes he’s played in the first 2 rounds.....you’ll be hard pressed to find one.....
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(03-31-2018, 01:42 PM)DJC link Wrote:I really don't know what you're on about LP :
Blokes who nominated to contest ruck contests (absolutely stupid rule) included Thomas, Charlie Curnow, O'Shea and (I think) Samo when Levi was having a spell. And of course, Jones had a go in the ruck in the last quarter but didn't manage to get his hand near the ball.
Just a few minutes ago you wrote this;
(03-31-2018, 12:53 PM)DJC link Wrote:However, Levi stuck at it without any backup (apart from Jones’ last quarter cameo) and we won the clearances.
It was infuriating to hear the commentators bleating about Casboult not taking enough marks; he took more than Witts!
No backup, except for the others who took the stoppage rucks as Casboult dropped into D50. FFS, we had Charlie rucking, must we feck him up as well to cover for Casboult? We even had Weitering taking the ruck at F50 stoppages! Casboult got more chop out than Witts!
If you were Witts why would you want a chop out, why the feck would you want to leave the ruck at all, it was like a magical day in the life of Jarrod that he's unlikely to ever experience again!
Two of Casboult's marks came in the last quarter when it was junk time, nobody was going to take them as serious stats! The one and only thing Casboult could have done all day today was take some marks around the ground, and heading into the last quarter he had just one by my count and that one received a bronx cheer from the Carlton crowd!
"When big men play well, others follow" Bolton's own words, and yet he played Levi as our ruck! I'm betting it may never happen again!
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(03-31-2018, 01:42 PM)DJC link Wrote:And of course, Jones had a go in the ruck in the last quarter but didn't manage to get his hand near the ball.
True Jones had no taps, but won a center clearance and a stoppage clearance with his 2nd efforts.
But trying to list this lack of taps, during a Junk Time ruck rotation, as some sort of case to justify Levi's 80 other minutes of game time is a real stretch.
Anyway, I'm not wasting any more time on Casboult, he gives us nothing now and offers us nothing for the future. He's a list clogger and a coach killer. We cannot ask more from him, because he gives us all that he's got to offer, and it's simply not good enough! We are going to lose players because of his performances, if we haven't already, and you'll still be defending him like he is the messiah!
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Go to sleep LP, the race is run...
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(03-31-2018, 02:23 PM)flyboy77 link Wrote:Go to sleep LP, the race is run...
I can't, you've still got me laughing!
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Woke this morning and hey look we're almost bottom of the ladder.
Must be Ground Hog Day. >  >
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(03-31-2018, 08:12 PM)BluePhantom link Wrote:Woke this morning and hey look we're almost bottom of the ladder.
Must be Ground Hog Day. > > We may need to get used to it. And as a long time carlton supporter it kills me to say that.
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