Player Watch #5: Caleb Daniel

[speedy]

This guy is a magician.

Play horrendous footy for 8 weeks, set the bar so low that when you finally start hitting 20m crab kicks everyone thinks you are playing well.

 

[Caracas]

This guy is a magician.

Play horrendous footy for 8 weeks, set the bar so low that when you finally start hitting 20m crab kicks everyone thinks you are playing well.

Winners are grinners… It’s always been so.

 

[Uncle_Leo]

This guy is a magician.

Play horrendous footy for 8 weeks, set the bar so low that when you finally start hitting 20m crab kicks everyone thinks you are playing well.

I'm starting to think you don't like him

 

[koshari]

I'm starting to think you don't like him

 

[SammyRoo]

Couldn’t play the role of a Garden Gnome if he had too ?!

 

[shimaburnsgrieg]

Easy to see why he had no future at the Dogs - would not get a game in any team outside the bottom 3.

Players with the weaknesses that Daniel has have been weeded out of the game ...North's response - recruit him in, give him 4 years and trade our second rounder to do it.

 

[Chadwiko]

Not even close to the biggest of our problems.

(No height pun intended)

 

[shimaburnsgrieg]

Not even close to the biggest of our problems.

(No height pun intended)

Indeed - but the post still stands.

 

[roos_fanatic08]

Gives us nothing more than Fisher did across half back last year. Yet it cost us a 2nd round pick.

Whoever the **** identified him as player who could help this side should be fired into the sun.
Any moron who’d watched him play in the last 2 years knew the game had passed him by.

It was an own goal to target him.
It was an own goal to offer him a 3 year deal.
It was an own goal with what we coughed up for him.

Just shit all round.

 

[speedy]

Easy to see why he had no future at the Dogs - would not get a game in any team outside the bottom 3.

Players with the weaknesses that Daniel has have been weeded out of the game ...North's response - recruit him in, give him 4 years and trade our second rounder to do it.

It has been widely established he indirectly cost us our 2025 first rounder.

 

[speedy]

Not even close to the biggest of our problems.

(No height pun intended)

Bullshit… he is the epitome of what’s wrong with this club.

We head hunted this guy to fill an important role in the team. Not only is he the worst at it in the comp but we criminally overpaid for him in both draft capital and contract value.

There is no hope for this regime when your most important people at the club sign off on such a recruitment.

 

[Uncle_Leo]

The very least of our issues today

Open the other eye

 

[Chip Scab1]

The very least of our issues today

Open the other eye

He's gotta go Leo. He's an open boom gate into our Forward Line.

Enough. There are always rides you can't go on and this is now one of them.

 

[backtothedraft]

Getting outmarked by Watson at CHF was annoying but they are the same size I suppose. I’d prefer the ball in McKerchers or Hardeman hand kicking out and have Daniel as the short option where he can hit the second kick on the 45. Looks lost for options sometimes but i think that’s more of a reflection of what’s happening up the ground.

 

[roos_fanatic08]

The very least of our issues today

Open the other eye

He can’t defend, can’t pressure and can’t even stand 10m within an opponent.

He is a huge part of the problem as clubs are going through his direct match up.

His disposal simply isn’t damaging enough to make it worth while playing one down in defence.

 

[Arathrawn]

The very least of our issues today

Open the other eye

Yeah because defenders who can't defend are not an issue for us

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Logue: awful defensively
Daniel: awful defensively
McKercher: awful defensively.

I’m sensing a pattern. You can’t have half your ****ing backline being incapable of defending.

 

[TruRoo]

The very least of our issues

every week this gets said about half a dozen players

 

[Dinkers]

He's a very small part of the problem. I must say it makes me laugh when he plays on from fullback and his little legs are pumping and he thumps the ball 20 metres up the line .
Not even sure why he kicks in at every opportunity. Hardeman kicks the thing 60 metres.
We're so ****ed currently.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

To play him on Watson. Wow.

He needs to always be played on the worst forward, and against decent sides, their worst fwd is capable of scorching CD.

This is a horrendous trade.

 

[Themanbun]

This also provokes a secondary reflection. He looked a million bucks in the intra club. Which means our forwards simply weren't working to burn or pressure him.

 

[Devil Fish]

Improving ever so slowly .. Christ he is liability though with his complete lack of pace and inability to defend. I would love to know the match committees honest view on his value so far.

Good luck with that.
They will genuinely have themselves convinced he’s been terrific.
And they’d be able to quote some BS stat to back it up.

 

[Blightys Barrel]

This also provokes a secondary reflection. He looked a million bucks in the intra club. Which means our forwards simply weren't working to burn or pressure him.

This is the best post of the whole CD trade. It was a sugar hit that had been infused with high fructose corn syrup and we all drank from the fountain. Bevo is no idiot and could see the writing on the wall. Imagine if we went harder for Matt Kennedy in the trade period and threw the same deal on the table to his Manager?

 

[JGreezy]

He's such a defensive liability and the improvement of Hardeman has made him redundant. He can't match up on anyone. He's the slowest player in our backline and he's 5 foot nothing.

Hardeman and McKercher can handle the disposal duties. Lmac is playing pretty good.

When Archer and Goater are back we will be so much better if we drop Daniel. We'll have some actual size and athleticism back there.

 

[Zondor]

He's such a defensive liability and the improvement of Hardeman has made him redundant. He can't match up on anyone. He's the slowest player in our backline and he's 5 foot nothing.

Hardeman and McKercher can handle the disposal duties. Lmac is playing pretty good.

When Archer and Goater are back we will be so much better if we drop Daniel. We'll have some actual size and athleticism back there.

I’m glad you didn’t run with the line only if Daniel was 6 foot. :stern look

Seriously a quality take on this topic Mr Greaseball.