Before the comments today the only mention was 100% negative, perhaps time heals all wounds but it has only been four days!
You pulled up 3 or 4 people who said he was crap, one of them was you who is still hurt over Hampson's shortcomings and another was The Sheik who says everyone is crap.
I never mentioned Casboult in the post game thread or the voting thread, sorry to disappoint you! I only mentioned him in this thread discussing the viability of our list in finals in the context of playing a bloke like Judd as being worth the risk. This is the relevant thread for that discussion, and Judd isn't the overriding consideration but the players around him are!
Hampson hasn't played for months, and that is your best defense for Casboult or our other tall forwards!!!
Most of the forum I would assume think he was serviceable because if he was that bad this place certainly wouldn't have missed him.
They just failed to notice the 200cm 105kg piece of Meat with the shag haircut!
A couple of the main reasons we lost that game were because Warnock's taps against Ryder were useless, and Casboult's minimal relief ruckwork was even worse. In addition despite having Casboult at 200cm roaming F50 for the majority of the game, and Henderson 196cm roaming inside F50, the only effective contested marks taken inside F50 came from Menzel. I do not consider the talls taking diving marks on the lead outside F50 as effective, we have any number of fast small / medium forwards that can do that leading into space. If the talls are out on the wing our F50 is hopelessly out gunned and we see it time and time again. On Saturday when they stayed deep maybe up to a dozen times our mids delivered the ball quickly and deeply into F50 only to see Carlilse, Hooker and Goddard clear the ball with relative ease. The EFC defense punched the ball wherever they liked and at ground level Hendo and Casboult were relatively useless.
Our best performed marking target was probably Menzel and that was only for half a game and our hardest working inside F50 target was McLean and he was only on the ground for about 10mins!
In retrospect I think MM made a massive error leaving Waite in defense and Hendo up forward, at least Waite makes a contest in the hot zone. Hendo is too slow once the ball hits the deck, and Casboult just doesn't contest as some of the post game thread criticisms suggest.
So in conclusion, if that is the best we can offer in the finals I say we might as well mothball them now!
There's surely no chance of Richmond losing to the scum, therefore if we make the finals Richmond it will be.
Richmond might rest half their side and hope the roos beat the pies so they can play Port rather than the blues or the roos who beat them last time out.
Be alot of incentive for Richmond to "tank" this week. Playing Port at home would be so better for the Tigers than playing North or Carlton.
I have searched voting and post game threads, high and low and they are the only mentions I could find to this moment!
Quote from: The Sheik
Waite in defence was a handbag, Casboult around the ground just shat himself under the pressure and none of the could kick a goal when it was needed.
Quote from: Mondy
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Casbout zero intelligence.
Quote from: EB1
Gibbs missed that last kick he had for goal because he felt pressure, Casboult panicked and turned the ball over under pressure, handpassing to no one after he had a chance to kick the footy....McInnes punched instead of marked because of the perceived pressure.
Quote from: GTC
Brainless Dopes like: Waite Casbolt Bell
Quote from: ringdabelltommy
The following players have to go:
The 3 amigos. Armfield, Casboult, Joeseph (can you believe he got a game tonight!), Waite, Scotland, Catchia, Duygan, Warnock and Robinson, Gibbs and Judd.
Nobody here on the forum managed to give him a vote, even Crashlander who just about voted or mentioned everybody couldn't find a vote for him!
Most of the match rating systems have him in the bottom 4 or 5.
If you had told me Hendo or Menzel was OK up forward, I could accept it as your assessment. Both had far more influence than Casboult who was neither effective or influential, and that seems supported by the votes and the stats.
I spent most of the night looking for Meat wondering if he was ever going to give Warnock a break. Warnock must have rucked 90% or even more of the time!
Sorry, if that is what you think it takes for a 200cm player to be OK we have very different perspectives.
Does this mean we put him on ice early on purpose? It would suggest so to me anyway.
McLean is gone for the season he racks up possessions against Nthmond, Carrazzo is out, Kreuzer hasn't played for three weeks, Walker is suspect, Murphy limping and Judd coming out of a medial ligament, Scotland has quad tightness.
Casboult reverted to a spud, Warnock got a million taps to nobody.
Lucas stunk it up in the Maggoos, Cachia rolled an ankle, Rowe didn't get close to it, Bootsma was ordinary, Hampson missed again, Garlett looked lost.
All of a sudden Port have not much to play for this weekend, with EFC out and now sitting 7th they will rest players for sure despite the media statements to the contrary.
............he got the gig eventually. Maybe a lesson there for us?
We have nobody in the right age bracket or in the same category as a Hodge, except Judd and he has retired from the gig as will Hodge soon. So why would we even be considering this as there is no possible answer!
My ideal model of a captain would be Hodge. He's tough, he can dish it out when he wants to, he's talented, he performs well in the media and most of all his on field deeds inspire his team and its supporters.
When I read this forum I cannot help but think a lot of people comment based on Stats.
And I read today that analysis centers like Final Siren, Dream Team and others have the likes of Warnock, Yarran and Bell rated highly. While they were heavily involved in play the effectiveness and efficiency of their possessions leaves me dead cold.
So here is my top five things to get yourself some ratings; - Tap the ball directly to an opponent. - Kick the ball to hopelessly outnumbered team mates. - Get pinned trying to break tackles. - Run around the contest as much as possible. - Play for soft free kicks.
And if they were our highest rated players, where does that leave the rest???
Judd, Simpson and Carrazzo are past their Use By Date. Carrazzo and Judd already show signs of old man injuries. The idea of replacing Murphy with a 30 year old suggests some immediate short term hope for success, but I will go with a longer term outlook.
In my opinion Henderson is a bit of an introvert, he will go backwards if he is given the front of house job. He spends more time hiding from the media than wanting to talk to it and Simpson is similar.
The club captain isn't just about on field stuff anymore, you are an integral part of bringing in, dealing with and attracting sponsors. There is nobody else at CFC that is as good a long term choice as Murphy.
