Player Watch #5: Caleb Daniel

[Zondor]

My DS reference is not about his trade cost / contract length. Plenty of people had him in the "should never play for North again" basket last year, but he is coming good this year.

Stephens has been better however he has been given a leg up by how bad Tucker and Scott have been. :stern look

 

[Chip Scab1]

100% correct. Daniel will not get taller, become faster or jump higher. As an AA and Best and Fairest player he excelled with deft kicking, being part of chains and being composed to extract himself from a phone booth with pressure all around.

Clarko, Viney and Rawlings created the mess. They need to see if there is anything salvageable from this incompetence by trying him in some other role outside of defence.

It’s like a school headmaster recruited this experienced Mathematics teacher. Halfway thru the year all the students are averaging a D. Maybe switch him to Art, History or Geography and see what he can do.

Poor Hardeman, FOS, Comden and Archer having to play with this fraud each week in the backline. The guy that was meant to mentor them and lead by example.

I still think the lack of length in his kicking is his real downfall. Needs a driving iron, proceeds to use a pitching wedge.

 

[chubbspeterson]

My DS reference is not about his trade cost / contract length. Plenty of people had him in the "should never play for North again" basket last year, but he is coming good this year.

Yep. No issue with Dylan. We needed players who could run and use the ball well enough.
I had problems with his aversion to contact and decision making, but less of an issue this year.
At worst he's a good squad of 30 player. But would like us to add another wing/hbf through the draft.

 

[LB2Snake]

I still think the lack of length in his kicking is his real downfall. Needs a driving iron, proceeds to use a pitching wedge.

He also personally thinks 8-10 metres is 15+.
Maybe he can kick the ball further but in some weird way he thinks he’s roosting it and it’s going 30 metres at best.
Probably shows you how differently the Braves are umpired that he was able to kick the ball 8-10 metres 20 times every game he played and not once be called “not 15! Not 15!”