Player Watch #5: Caleb Daniel - Welcome to North Melbourne - NM trade R2(25) for CD

[Sphynx]

The problem is there are no targets to hit


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Err no.

He kicked about 15 mung 25m helicopters today

 

[Lomas]

The problem is there are no targets to hit


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Not enough of an excuse for some of his efforts.
Hope he comes good.

 

[Only Forwards]

Club release telling us he lost his right leg in a car accident during the week?

I don’t see any real noticeable difference with Fisher in all honesty.

Fisher may have been a better kick and Daniel harder around the ball. It’s negligible.

Fisher is quicker so I’d take him on that alone and I don’t want Fisher in the side.

 

[Elite Master]

He gets a lot of the ball but doesn't use it very well, yet he is still labeled our "best ball user" according to some "experts" on this board. No, he is not, far from it. Colby and Sheezle were far more effective playing the role Daniel is now in previous years.

 

[ToxicMegaPunts]

I don't know what some posters were expecting with this bloke. There is a reason he wasn't getting a game at the Dogs, absolute liability defensively and is just too slow for the modern game. Now his kicking has gone off the boil. Jeez this club loves burning a good 2nd round pick.

 

[The Butcher]

Living embodiment of the fact that you don't want to have the best house on the worst street. Doesn't matter if u got xyz fancy shit the dodgy overgrown rubbish dumps around ya mean your Italian marble whatever that looks the shit in posh st won't even get looked at and sooner or later bit by bit your gonna let the lawn go forget about the gutters park on the front yard and join in the wallow. Good times

 

[justroyal]

So you’re saying we could have kept Colby down there, with O’Sullivan…and not burnt our pick??

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Number of possessions aren’t that relevant when you’re the designated distributor. He needs to lift. Hopefully he develops more chemistry with his targets because there’s no other position he can play.


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[The Nostradamus]

So you’re saying we could have kept Colby down there, with O’Sullivan…and not burnt our pick??

Or fisher
Who provides the same

Was a silly trade

One you would only do for a pick in the 40s

 

[ApplecrossWC]

Was a questionable trade at the time but I don’t think anyone expected it to be this much of a disaster.

 

[scottywiper]

Was a questionable trade at the time but I don’t think anyone expected it to be this much of a disaster.

He cost us 25 and that deal also led to us having to cough up our first rounder this year.
If he don't come good this will be up there with the CCJ debacle.

 

[roos_fanatic08]

He cost us 25 and that deal also led to us having to cough up our first rounder this year.
If he don't come good this will be up there with the CCJ debacle.

Especially when you compare it with what the Saints paid for Macrae who is a far superior player.

 

[Passmore]

Sheesh Merlin - Daniel has been a deadset revelation down back.

He has the odd howler but his attacking kicking is a big reason why we've hit the scoreboard so often in the first two games.

You watch him, his first instinct off half back is to go forward and preferably through the corridor.

I'll take that over the crabbing we've witnessed over the past few years.

Agreed. And looking at those bagging him backs up my thoughts. It’ll work itself out.

 

[Dan]

Not playing his best form yet but at the same time his new teammates aren’t giving much options when he has the ball.

 

[Merlin007]

Sheesh Merlin - Daniel has been a deadset revelation down back.

He has the odd howler but his attacking kicking is a big reason why we've hit the scoreboard so often in the first two games.

You watch him, his first instinct off half back is to go forward and preferably through the corridor.

I'll take that over the crabbing we've witnessed over the past few years.

I was like, taking the p!ss

We won last week, great recruitment; we lose this week, Caleb Daniel falls from the sky

Still our leading possession winner with 77% KE and 540 metres gained.

 

[Passmore]

Not playing his best form yet but at the same time his new teammates aren’t giving much options when he has the ball.

He’ll take the game on . Needs some time for this to gel.

 

[Passmore]

I was like, taking the p!ss

We won last week, great recruitment; we lose this week, Caleb Daniel falls from the sky

Still our leading possession winner with 77% KE and 540 metres gained.

You’re a good one.

 

[ChopChopDigDig]

Was limping pretty bad after half time

 

[Makeshift Park]

Actually you know what.

Let’s play him in RHJ’s role for a week. He’d ****ing kill it.

Get either Kerch, Sheeze (who needs a confidence game), or even FOS or Fisher to be the playmaker for a game.

 

[The Butcher]

Anyone got a chart for output of our designated kicker outerers last 20yrs? Or maybe their output minus instances of being kicker inerer. Ziebs all overs again? Oh for an uncontested mark on a attacking angle

 

[koshari]

He gets a lot of the ball but doesn't use it very well, yet he is still labeled our "best ball user" according to some "experts" on this board. No, he is not, far from it. Colby and Sheezle were far more effective playing the role Daniel is now in previous years.

On a pretty small sample size but bar the 2nd half v godeed this is how it stands at present.

 

[koshari]

Anyone got a chart for output of our designated kicker outerers last 20yrs? Or maybe their output minus instances of being kicker inerer. Ziebs all overs again? Oh for an uncontested mark on a attacking angle

Ziebel and to a lesser extent lmac are big proponants of the dump kick. Daniels on the other hands kicks get less air than trever chappels famous delivery.

 

[Themanbun]

Ziebel and to a lesser extent lmac are big proponants of the dump kick. Daniels on the other hands kicks get less air than trever chappels famous delivery.

The most disappointing thing about his small sample size thus far is his propensity for dump kicks tbh.

 

[backtothedraft]

Disappointing. Id like to see him take a few less risks with ball in hand until his confidence returns and he gets more familiar with patterns ahead of him. Perhaps we’re asking him to do too much with ball in hand. Would like to see him share designated kicking duties with O’Sullivan, or even have Sheezel slide back there more often despite his indifferent start to the year.

 

[giantroo]