Carlton Supporters Club

Of course this is largely subjective, and everyone is perfectly entitled to their opinion. My position is based primarily on stats that I think are often overlooked.

If people think that being second last in inside 50's and 10% lower than this time last year is 'getting the ball in enough' then I'll go heave. Our conversion of inside 50's into scoring shots and goals is about  the league average. Where I disagree with many though is the assertion that we will 'naturally improve' or the coaches will suddenly switch tack and we will suddenly become much better in attack, despite a 60 game trendline that shows no improvement at all. There is a bit of potential in a few of our youngsters, but we individually and collectively we have delivered very little in attack all year.

A competent forwardline begins with having a bunch of good forwards on your list, with a mix of experienced and developing players - just like we have with the defence and midfield. Until we get more AFL standard forwards onto our list, or start playing the ones we do have, then I can't see how we improve!

Same people who wanted us to get rid of Betts (and there were MANY on here) will probably be hopeful of losing Cas.

He'll kick 3 times as many goals at a top club.

Cas on the other hand is simply not smart enough as a footballer to ever be a good forward. He is an awesome contested mark, but is just in the wrong place at the wrong time way too often to ever build a forwardline around, as he is also often putting the other players out of position as well.

So you think he'll be leading the Coleman medal at another club..........really?

Yet we offered him a short term deal, and no other club showed interest when they could have got a potential Coleman medallist cheaply!

Last 2 year he kicked roughly 20 goals. I think he could kick 50 or 60. That's at the top end and would depend on which team but wouldn't be a coleman medal which is about 80ish.

He'll kick 3 times as many goals at a top club.

Just on Casboult, here's an interesting thing to ponder about him.

In our 10 wins over the last 2 years, he has kicked a total of 9 goals! So when we are playing well under BB he is almost always a non factor. Not sure how you could say with any certainty based on this that he would kick more goals in a better side. Yes he may get better service from the guys up the field, but he is also going to be competing with other competent forwards for the ball.

I agree with Jeza on a lot of things, but I think this is a big stretch.

After 12 Games

2016

Goals 133 Behinds 112-910 (points against 1075)
Percentage 84.7 %

2017

Goals 129 Behinds 108-882 (points against 1066)
Percentage 82.7 %

Interesting ... and certainly not the goal fest I was anticipating/hoping for!

Clearly Bolton's priority/strategy is to stop the other mob scoring so that if we do get headed, one or two goals will get the lead back.  Even though it's low scoring, it's good to watch ... particularly when we win