Player Watch #7: Daniel Butler

[Tygrys]

Absolute crock to generalise you're second to the ball and that's why he tackles, fact is high pressure players like Butler sprint 100 meters to get to a contest to put that pressure on to lay the tackle, one of the reasons our small forward trio were feared in '17. Why do you think they have "pressure act" stats?
And the junk time goal argument is also a junk time argument. If we deleted junk time goals from the record books even the all time greats would have their records massively reduced. A goal is a goal, it's in the books.

Butler is very fortunate that there is a thing called 'pressure act' stats because otherwise he'd have almost no stats at all. And whilst he may occasionally do that 100 meter sprint thing, more often than not he is simply just second to the ball. And on those very rare occasions he did get the ball it didn't help he had near the worst disposal efficiency of anyone on the ground. Basically a perfect storm of crapness.

And it's entirely relevant to call out his junk time goal for what it is. It might stand in the record book, but we all know what the value of it was when we were over 10 goals down in the last quarter (just like we know the value of one of his two goals the week before from a relayed free kick). It no way compensated for that woeful turnover that helped kill any hope we had of getting back into the match.

Again the only coaching staff that would have been 'very happy' with his performance last Friday night work for Geelong.

 

[Phar Ace]

I realise Bolton has a few accompanying flaws in his game still, but give me Bolton 100 times ahead Butler going forward please. For Butler any good work is short on substance and long on frustration.

 

[joelsyt]

I don’t know what it is about this guy but he annoys me.

He always looks half-assed. Say what you want about some of our other smalls, who have all had a horrible season (except Baker) but at least they look like they’re trying. Butler doesn’t even look like it.

I really hope he proves us all wrong given he’s only 22/23 but right now i’ll Be perfectly happy if he never wears a Richmond jumper again.

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

I realise Bolton has a few accompanying flaws in his game still, but give me Bolton 100 times ahead Butler going forward please. For Butler any good work is short on substance and long on frustration.

Hey nice work...Butts is a good finisher in a good side...currently we are neither nor is he!

 

[juss]

Trade.

He is such a frustrating, lazy, arrogant player. Thinks he is all that because he has a premiership medal but has disappeared this year when we have needed him to step up.

Where has the gut running and hard chasing gone? He should have been prime to break out this year.

 

[Phar Ace]

I don’t know what it is about this guy but he annoys me.

He always looks half-assed. Say what you want about some of our other smalls, who have all had a horrible season (except Baker) but at least they look like they’re trying. Butler doesn’t even look like it.

I really hope he proves us all wrong given he’s only 22/23 but right now i’ll Be perfectly happy if he never wears a Richmond jumper again.

Yep, yep and yep. First contest was good, first possession was good and I thought beauty, he's brought his A-game. A very short time later after Tex's miss, the ball goes wing side and Butler tries to toe poke it and misses the ball completely when it was a definite bend and collect, Adelaide clear it forward. Blow me down if he then does a similar thing again within a minute, refuses to pick up the ball and tries to toe poke it again, fails and Adelaide clear the ball. It's then I realise same old Butler looking for the cheaper, easier option.

 

[Sol23]

Lazy campaigner who doesn’t wanna do any of the hard stuff. Happy to kick a few Cheep goals.

 

[joelsyt]

Yep, yep and yep. First contest was good, first possession was good and I thought beauty, he's brought his A-game. A very short time later after Tex's miss, the ball goes wing side and Butler tries to toe poke it and misses the ball completely when it was a definite bend and collect, Adelaide clear it forward. Blow me down if he then does a similar thing again within a minute, refuses to pick up the ball and tries to toe poke it again, fails and Adelaide clear the ball. It's then I realise same old Butler looking for the cheaper, easier option.

I found myself thinking pick up a ground ball you w***er after both those efforts.

 

["The Roar Is Back"]

Shouldnt add to his games tally.

 

[sregit]

I was a rap for Butler but no more. The guy regularly takes short steps when front on contact is likely. That is why he is second to the ball so often. Scared rabbit. Happy for him to be moved on. This is also why he toe pokes the ball rather than put his head over the ball and pick it up. Avoids contact at all times. Needs a nappy under his shorts.

 

[TigerImposter]

I don’t know what it is about this guy but he annoys me.

He always looks half-assed. Say what you want about some of our other smalls, who have all had a horrible season (except Baker) but at least they look like they’re trying. Butler doesn’t even look like it.

I really hope he proves us all wrong given he’s only 22/23 but right now i’ll Be perfectly happy if he never wears a Richmond jumper again.

I don’t know what’s happened to him , but since the GF he’s comeback as a lazy FIGJAM. It’s like he doesn’t want to do the hard yards anymore. He was my favourite VFL Tiger and him being a part of the 17 Flag was a buzz. It’s like he reached the summit and doesn’t really care anymore. His body language is also different being more lazy snd slow looking.

 

[BF Tiger]

A frustrating his player. When he is on it is great, but when is off, even by just a few %, he is duddelist. He just has to find that spark that was there in 2017.

 

[RichoLedio]

I really want to like him because with his attributes he should be an absolute gun, but he just keeps letting me down

 

[joelsyt]

I really want to like him because with his attributes he should be an absolute gun, but he just keeps letting me down

Yep that’s probably why he annoys me.

He should be a very very good footballer.

He’s got the talent there but it’s like he doesn’t want to do anything about it.

Maybe winning the flag so young wasn’t a great thing for him.

He’s already reached the summit, what’s the point then?

I wish we had more premiership players with the personality traits of Cotchin, Martin, Rance and Riewoldt, the four of them are so competitive that you can tell the one flag is just not enough.

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

I really want to like him because with his attributes he should be an absolute gun, but he just keeps letting me down

Same here...mention him by name it's like entering the burmuda triangle...a mysterious triangle defined by 3 points...RFC, DButler and football skills...
Some days he's sighted and other days he's disappeared...

 

[Drunken Wookie]

He had a massive pre-season, remember? Was primed to take it to the next level and join the midfield rotations. Then nothing. Have their been other clubs in his ear?

 

[joelsyt]

He had a massive pre-season, remember? Was primed to take it to the next level and join the midfield rotations. Then nothing. Have their been other clubs in his ear?

If other clubs are in his ear he’s doing himself a disservice, I imagine those other clubs may be having second thoughts right about now.

 

[Drunken Wookie]

If other clubs are in his ear he’s doing himself a disservice, I imagine those other clubs may be having second thoughts right about now.

Opposition club gets him for peanuts and he gets a long term contract and guaranteed game time. Potentially tinfoil hat stuff but you never know...
To me he looks like a player just 'playing out the year' rather than extracting the best from himself.

 

[dustysnecktattoo]

Trade

 

[TJASTA]

It's the 7 curse I tell ya.

 

[joelsyt]

Opposition club gets him for peanuts and he gets a long term contract and guaranteed game time. Potentially tinfoil hat stuff but you never know...
To me he looks like a player just 'playing out the year' rather than extracting the best from himself.

Hopefully it is just tinfoil hat stuff, but if this is what he’s doing put him back in the VFL until the end of the year and I look forward to when he’s playing on Dylan Grimes/Sydney Stack.

 

[tiger_tough]

Ship him off for a 3rd rounder. I've seen enough.

 

[Rocco sifreddi]

Butler looked good in a gun side smashing teams in 2017 now he is being exposed to the ordinary
Player he is in a side thats battling to make finals
To me he looks uninterested
Rance jack cotch bleed for our club butters doent look like he wants to break a sweat i think like towner his time has come.

 

[Shazza_]

did the ankle and cant run anymore. dont think he ever gets his speed back

trade to carltoon for a first rounder

 

[Tango67]

needs the Ellis treatment, go back to the vfl until you change your attitude, chase, tackle commitment then we will consider