Player Watch #5: Caleb Daniel

[Arathrawn]

Weird post to make when he's in our bests at half time.

Still can't defend. Kicking was fine but gets pushed off the footy way to easily and Is a nothing defender in the air.

 

[koshari]

I hate him. Actually worse than useless.

Not a huge fan of the role he has been given but cant knock his game today, actually won most of the earlier 1x1 contests , got outmarked a couple of times later in the game but the contests were up the ground and didnt hurt us

 

[gerry101101]

Credit where it’s due - was decent and clean today. He’s still the guy to make way when hardeman is back, in my book, but can’t fault his work today at all.

 

[RooDave]

Im happy to give credit where its due and Calebs game today certainly wasnt his worst but the sooner we go past him the better.

Blamiers playing his very first game played his role far better and didnt look out of place at all.

 

[Psychic Roo]

Much better further from goal. Parker and blamires allow that. More options for small forwards.

 

[Themanbun]

Just chooses not to contest way too often for someone in our back six and a leader.

 

[scottywiper]

Best game he's played for North.

 

[koshari]

Just chooses not to contest way too often for someone in our back six and a leader.

Cmon, at his heigh its hardly a choice....

 

[Marstermind]

Easily his best game for the club. Credit where it's due. He was really good.

 

[Uncle_Leo]

He was great. Best game for the club

Anyone who says otherwise is just biased against him

 

[Caracas]

I hate him. Actually worse than useless.

Strange. He speaks very highly of you.

 

[zoomba23]

He was great. Best game for the club

Anyone who says otherwise is just biased against him

Missed a gimme kick inside 50, didn't attack the ball in the air when he should've, shoved out of the way by non-descript small forward #442894 right at the end, and gave away a stupid 50. He was more reliable than usual, but I think he had a better game than that last year. Possibly the Melbourne game; there were errors early, but his kicking was actually brilliant rather than just serviceable in that one

 

[Whippet1]

He channeled some of his prime Bulldog football today. My theory is that teams finally worked him out but Port seemed to have missed the memo.
My other theory is that we haven’t adjusted to his style but today we looked a bit more in synch with it.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Still gets picked on, but thought he was excellent today.

Still needs to be replaced in the next year or so.

 

[roopdog]

He channeled some of his prime Bulldog football today. My theory is that teams finally worked him out but Port seemed to have missed the memo.
My other theory is that we haven’t adjusted to his style but today we looked a bit more in synch with it.

I like theory #2. Players were moving into space to give him a target.

 

[shinboner magic]

Was good today

Played well when the heat was on early - hit his kicks and even made a spoil.

More of the same

 

[Uncle_Leo]

Missed a gimme kick inside 50, didn't attack the ball in the air when he should've, shoved out of the way by non-descript small forward #442894 right at the end, and gave away a stupid 50. He was more reliable than usual, but I think he had a better game than that last year. Possibly the Melbourne game; there were errors early, but his kicking was actually brilliant rather than just serviceable in that one

As I said, anyone bagging him today simply has it out for him

 

[zoomba23]

As I said, anyone bagging him today simply has it out for him

Nah man

 

[HugeJohnson1]

Can’t kick for shit but played his role today. Blamires took a load off

 

[Caracas]

Can’t kick for shit but played his role today. Blamires took a load off

Demonstrably incorrect.

 

[hotchilli]

Can’t kick for shit but played his role today. Blamires took a load off

His kicking was very good today.

3 score launches, 6 score involvements and most importantly halved a few more contests defensively than he did last year.

 

[HugeJohnson1]

We are scraping the bottom of the barrel if we are celebrating him landing a couple of kicks to team8s.

How many years into his career are we? Let’s stop accepting the bare minimum and set a standard FFS

 

[hotchilli]

We are scraping the bottom of the barrel if we are celebrating him landing a couple of kicks to team8s.

How many years into his career are we? Let’s stop accepting the bare minimum and set a standard FFS

And he played his role well today. You are allowed to acknowledge when someone has played well even if you don't like the player.

 

[HugeJohnson1]

we gave up pick 25 for him champ. I’m glad he can finally manage to kick 25m to a team mate, let’s watch him back it up for the next 25 games and the pick exchange might finally pay off

 

[hotchilli]

we gave up pick 25 for him champ. I’m glad he can finally manage to kick 25m to a team mate, let’s watch him back it up for the next 25 games and the pick exchange might finally pay off

Oh how will I ever cope with being champed by some dumb campaigner.

The trade being bad and him playing his role well today can both be true.