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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on December 03, 2014, 11:15:01 AM
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Welcome to Punt Rd, Jason :).
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Pick 29. Jason Castagna (Richmond)
Player bio
Former club: Northern Knights
Age: 18
Height: 182cm
Weight: 76kg
Position: Defender
2014 Statistics
Games: 5
Goals: 1
Avg Kicks: 6.6
Avg Marks: 3.4
Avg Hballs: 7.4
Medium defender who provides excellent rebound with his work ethic, endurance and penetrating kick. Consistent contributor in the NAB AFL Under-18 Championships for Vic Metro, averaging 14 touches in five appearances at 76 per cent efficiency. Played nine games for Northern Knights at TAC Cup level, averaging 17 possessions. Recorded 15.2 in beep test at NAB AFL Draft Combine.
VIDEO: http://www.afl.com.au/video?guid=695787
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Yes welcome!!
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dud.delist.
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VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK7IYSZn9PM
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/2014-12-03/2014-rookie-draft-jason-castagna-highlights
PICS:
(http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2014/07/15/1226989/351560-1b8f7fd4-0bb0-11e4-a815-d3c95abb9aab.jpg) (http://www-static2.spulsecdn.net/pics/00/03/22/67/3226776_2_O.jpg)
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2014 Rookie Draft, pick 29: Jason Castagna
richmondfc.com.au
December 3, 2014 11:38 AM
Richmond has selected Northern Knights utility Jason Castagna with its second pick (selection 29) in the 2014 Rookie Draft.
A small defender or forward, Castagna represented Vic Metro at the National Championships, where he won the coaches award.
He played nine games for the Knights in the TAC Cup, averaging 17 disposals and three tackles per match.
He also attended the National Combine, where he tested equal fifth for the beep test.
“Jason is a dashing defender who has a great combination of speed and endurance,” said Richmond Recruitment Manager Francis Jackson.
“He takes the game on with run and carry, and is hard to tackle with his excellent lateral movement.
“He also competes well, and can also play as a lock down defender on the dangerous small forwards.”
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2014-12-03/2014-rookie-draft-pick-29-jason-castagna
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Replacement for Morris....
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Hopefully adds depth to the side
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From the Herald-Sun ...
Castagna was considered unlucky to miss out in last Thursday’s national draft after standing out at the draft combine in October.
The 18-year-old recorded a 15.2 in the beep test, ranking him equal-sixth overall, on the back of a strong AFL Under-18 National Championships for Vic Metro.
“Athletically, he tested well,” Northern Knights talent manager Peter Kennedy said.
“His point of difference is his run and carry, that’s his strength.
“He won the coaches award at Vic Metro, so it was really disappointing that he missed out on the (national) draft.”
In five games for Vic Metro at the championships, the 182cm defender averaged 14 touches at 76 per cent efficiency.
But Kennedy said Castagna, claimed with pick 29, needed to work on his disposal.
“Clubs probably overlooked him more on his decision-making,” Kennedy said.
“His delivery of the football and decision-making needs to keep improving.”
http://www.news.com.au/national/northern-knights-pair-jayden-short-and-jason-castagna-join-teammate-rhys-mckenzie-at-afl-club-richmond/story-e6frfkp9-1227143366667
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From the Herald-Sun ...
But Kennedy said Castagna, claimed with pick 29, needed to work on his disposal.
“Clubs probably overlooked him more on his decision-making,” Kennedy said.
“His delivery of the football and decision-making needs to keep improving.”
Whoa another FJ Special - should fit right in.
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naturally there are reasons all these blokes were overlooked in the draft proper. each and every one will have some big time weakness that needs addressing
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naturally there are reasons all these blokes were overlooked in the draft proper. each and every one will have some big time weakness that needs addressing
Noooooooo, surely not Al. I'd be putting it down to an FJ special.
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Love the run and carry and how he is prepared to take the game on.
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sissed his target on virtually every occasion in the highlights package, will fit like a glove into our backline. :lol Seriously though he is a real dasher, if he can be taught how and when to dispose of the ball then he may develop into a useful player, I suppose that's what the rookie draft is all about.
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:lol
sissed his target on virtually every occasion in the highlights package, will fit like a glove into our backline. :lol Seriously though he is a real dasher, if he can be taught how and when to dispose of the ball then he may develop into a useful player, I suppose that's what the rookie draft is all about.
Yeah but he didn't miss the goal. Agree though, if he can get his decision making and skill levels up he will go ok.
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Love the run and carry and how he is prepared to take the game on.
Needs to run and carry all the way to the goal square lest he turn it over.
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Impressive highlights package.
Good luck to the kid.
Got some serious toe!
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The 3 standouts for me in the new draftees are McKensie, Castagna and Lambert. And two are rookies.
Ellis must be really good too but just seems to do everything well without any real weapon.
Had another look at this kids highlights and he is the sort of player we need in our side with his run and carry and shear pace. Would love him to see him get a go on a wing with Menadue on the other.
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The 3 standouts for me in the new draftees are McKensie, Castagna and Lambert. And two are rookies.
Ellis must be really good too but just seems to do everything well without any real weapon.
Had another look at this kids highlights and he is the sort of player we need in our side with his run and carry and shear pace. Would love him to see him get a go on a wing with Menadue on the other.
Ran in the Stawell gift 2 years ago. Must have some toe!
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If he's an upgrade on Banfumbles then I guess it's a start.
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has he been upgraded yet, and if not why not
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From RFC Twitter
@Richmond_FC: Nathan Foley's retirement and placing on the long-term injury list, sees Jason Castagna upgraded to the senior list http://t.co/DmNqdsbmNN
Congrats Jason aka George
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awesome, get him in
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Not named in this week's squad
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Great news! Would love to see him get a run in the seniors at some stage this year. He fulfills a need for speed. Just need to get him to lower his sights and kick to short options in dangerous places.
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Well done George, :clapping another FJ black book special :shh can play a bit just quietly
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Now play him.
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Doubt he's going to get a gig but I hope he does even if it's one game and a subsequent dropping. Give him a taste but until he cleans up his disposal I don't want to see him too often
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Now play him.
agree
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good onya Georgie boy!
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Castagna's interview on the RFC website:
VIDEO: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/2015-11-05/castagna-2015-season-review
* My first year here, I just tried to learn as much as I could and enjoy myself through the VFL. And, I reckon I did that. I had great fun. It’s a massive transition from TAC Cup to VFL. I was coming up against a lot bigger bodies than I would have been last year. And, probably a really big difference from TAC Cup to this year, is how much your structures come into it. In the TAC Cup, you kind of just go out there and play. Structures really come into it in this and I think it’s really good and better for the team, obviously. The environment here is really good, I reckon, just being around the boys so much more. Obviously, you’re here every day and it’s just a lot more fun and the environment’s a really enjoyable one. Coming in from the start, there’s a lot going on. It’s hard to take in. But as you go through the year and play with a lot of the boys, it gets drummed into you. It took me a while to fully understand most of the stuff. But Ben Rutten and Ryan Ferguson, the backline coaches, were pretty good for me. They really drummed it in and kept reinforcing it, which was helpful.
* Getting the elevation towards the end of the season gave me a lot of confidence and made me want to push harder, I guess, to try and get senior selection.
* Bachar’s my mentor, so I speak with him a bit about footy. And I go through his game with him, watch his vision and I pick up a lot from him. From ‘Bach’ especially, but all the defenders, I’ve learnt a lot more about actually defending this year. I think last year in the TAC, you kind of just want to get the ball and just run with it. But the defensive part is crucial and I’ve learned a heap from those guys. Probably the key thing I’ve learnt off them, is how big communication is. When you’re out there with them, just at training, you realise how helpful it is when they’re talking so much.
* Over this break I want to stay fit and while doing that work on my skills and hone in on that part of my game. Put my best foot forward in pre-season and try and do well in pre-season games and then see where that takes me.
Full article: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2015-11-05/castagnas-impressive-climb
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Houli's teaching him how to defend? Oh dear...
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Impressive highlights package.
Good luck to the kid.
Got some serious toe!
With his speed and size could he become our long awaited small forward?
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Coming along nicely this kid , was a stawell gift runner and is a ball magnet , Polish a few rough edges and,like whoa , he could be anything :shh
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fingers crossed here..with some luck we might have a gun
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Houli's teaching him how to defend? Oh dear...
At least he'll learn not to get hurt!
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Choco's latest cub watch segment on Castagna:
VIDEO: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/2016-03-03/chocos-cub-watch-castagna
* Jason played particularly well, I think, towards the end of last year. He was going to play in the seniors but got injured and missed that opportunity.
* He’s one of the great characters around the place. He’s got great energy and he could play some midfield but certainly in the backline at AFL level. The boys (his Tiger teammates) did a great job integrating him into the Club and helping him understand AFL football. The senior players look after him. They love his energy and his attack on the ball. He’s very courageous and goes flat out - a bit like Morris.
* As supporters who have seen him play at VFL level would understand, he has a crack at winning the ball and a crack at the opposition, which is brilliant. He’s been slowly working on his decision-making and kicking, which are the things we try and help all the young players with. And, he’s building that case as well.
Full article: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2016-03-03/chocos-cub-watch-jason-castagna
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A bit like Morris :help
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A bit like Morris :help
x2, why would he say that. He is nothing like that clown. Actually, courage wise yes, I will give Morris that. But in every other way completely different.
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Coming along nicely this kid , was a stawell gift runner and is a ball magnet , Polish a few rough edges and,like whoa , he could be anything :shh
I agree if those edges can be polished we may have a half decent player.
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A bit like Morris :help
x2, why would he say that. He is nothing like that clown. Actually, courage wise yes, I will give Morris that. But in every other way completely different.
lol, that was the aspect he was comparing to morris.......
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A bit like Morris :help
x2, why would he say that. He is nothing like that clown. Actually, courage wise yes, I will give Morris that. But in every other way completely different.
lol, that was the aspect he was comparing to morris.......
Yeah I I was reinforcing that that's the only aspect before everyone gets on board!!
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so what did you mean when you asked "why would he say that?"?
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Houli's teaching him how to defend? Oh dear...
At least he'll learn not to get hurt!
:shh
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He has put on a bit of muscle through the upper body which is fantastic for a kid so young. His body is AFL ready by the looks of things.
What are the chances he gets upgraded to the senior list before round 1?
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He has put on a bit of muscle through the upper body which is fantastic for a kid so young. His body is AFL ready by the looks of things.
What are the chances he gets upgraded to the senior list before round 1?
Under Hardwick zero.
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He has put on a bit of muscle through the upper body which is fantastic for a kid so young. His body is AFL ready by the looks of things.
What are the chances he gets upgraded to the senior list before round 1?
Under Hardwick zero.
Sadly I have to agree.
What are the chances these 4 soft c0(ks, Grigg, Chaplin, Houli and Ellis are all in the side come round 1.
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should rename club Richmond Squibs
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Add Griffiths, Conca and Hunt to that list and it 7 players that wouldn't get a game for Hawthorn at any stage in the last 4 years. And we will most likely play them all.
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The son of Carlos Castagna, a guy that made it onto the Fitzroy list but ultimately had to run the family business Castagna Steel.
A good boy and a dasher. I hope he improves his decision making and kicking because he is great around the club.
As you can see, I like the boy.
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The son of Carlos Castagna, a guy that made it onto the Fitzroy list but ultimately had to run the family business Castagna Steel.
A good boy and a dasher. I hope he improves his decision making and kicking because he is great around the club.
As you can see, I like the boy.
Stalker :lol
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Should be given some time, is closer to senior action than rioli for mine , has some great qualities :shh
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as per the title, well done George
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2016-03-15/castagna-upgraded-to-senior-list
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A yes well done. Now play him.
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:clapping :clapping :clapping :gotigers
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Sounds like a gun who's had a breakout off season
Oh wait.....snap
#bentoverrigers
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Our new name, Richmond Bentoverrigers.
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Our new name, Richmond Bentoverrigers.
There's no time for T son
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If he can fix his diabolical field kicking will be a very handy player who'll add a point of difference with his pace, creativity, toughness & work ethic. Good choice, glad we didn't go down the safe, predictable road with Kandam Marcbert.
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Did he even play a NAB challenge match?
Silly!
Should have been Chol!
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Did he even play a NAB challenge match?
Silly!
Should have been Chol!
played the first one
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Did he even play a NAB challenge match?
Silly!
Should have been Chol!
played the first one
10 disposals 2 marks 1 tackle
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Did he even play a NAB challenge match?
Silly!
Should have been Chol!
Chol's miles off senior premiership football....even more so now there's no sub rule to protect his non-existent tank....
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Did he even play a NAB challenge match?
Silly!
Should have been Chol!
played the first one
10 disposals 2 marks 1 tackle
In limited game time.
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Well done Dimma.
Now give the kid a chance...
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He's not best 22 at this point. If there's an injury I'd like to see him play before Hunt though.
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anyone that's seen much of him, whats he like defensively?
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anyone that's seen much of him, whats he like defensively?
Quite good.....likes to tackle and sticks them....
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looking forward to the whines of why upgrade him if you arent going to play him, when he doesnt get selected rnd 1
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looking forward to the whines of why upgrade him if you arent going to play him, when he doesnt get selected rnd 1
Are trying to say that elevation to the senior list doesn't automatically mean you're in the best 22?
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A good practice match tonight and he plays I reckon, his pace is needed
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Thoughts on the kid's debut last night?
11 disposals
6 kicks
5 handballs
6 contested possessions
7 uncontested possies
72.7 efficiency
2 marks
2 clangers
2 tackles
3 Inside 50s
1 free for
1 free against
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Thoughts on the kid's debut last night?
11 disposals
6 kicks
5 handballs
6 contested possessions
7 uncontested possies
72.7 efficiency
2 marks
2 clangers
2 tackles
3 Inside 50s
1 free for
1 free against
Just good to see him get a game.
Thought he was ok. I must admit though he look lazy like everyone else.
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I saw a couple of things I liked and a few things I didn't like.
Better him in the team than Morris at this stage but I don't have high hopes for any player or their ongoing development and improvement at the RFC under this current footy department.
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Looks alright
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Thoughts on the kid's debut last night?
11 disposals
6 kicks
5 handballs
6 contested possessions
7 uncontested possies
72.7 efficiency
2 marks
2 clangers
2 tackles
3 Inside 50s
1 free for
1 free against
Has peaked will only get worse from here on in
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Was good added some spark, that turn in traffic was great
In a night of practically no highlights he was one as was Corey Ellis
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anyone willing to bet against him being a scapegoat next week?
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I'd like to officially nominate him as this weeks NAB Rising Scapegoat
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I thought he went all right, kept trying to generate pressure at all times.
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Shows more dash and flair than many of his more experienced teammates......
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Shows more dash and flair than many of his more experienced teammates......
cracked in harder too
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anyone willing to bet against him being a scapegoat next week?
:lol
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Shows more dash and flair than many of his more experienced teammates......
Hardwick will knock this habit out of him quick smart.
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Should play ahead of Morris for the rest of the season. Let him learn through his mistakes as he runs in straight lines and shows offensive promise unlike Steve.
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anyone willing to bet against him being a scapegoat next week?
Will be dropped for Vlastuin or McIntosh.
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Keep playing him. Looked good to me.
Bring in that Short too. McBean. Elton. Broad.
Let's take a look at them all and just drop no-hopers like Chaplin, Astbury, Morris etc
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anyone willing to bet against him being a scapegoat next week?
Will be dropped for Vlastuin or McIntosh.
God forbid we play them together
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No can't do that - not "The Richmond Way...."
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Too many promising kids
Not enough list Blocking Dimma mate flogs
List dynamics and that
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Few little mistakes (one shocking kick ;D) but I'd take that output over Morris' or Hunt's any day, with the benefit of him having upside
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Needs to take that young kid Houli under his wing & teach him a thing or two about courage ... then teach the other youngster B.Ellis something about copping bumps. Its a tough gig having to hold up the back half & carry those two, but keep up the good work 'George' ... :thumbsup
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Thought he was poor
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Showed just how the gap between our VFL side and an AFL game is. I am sure could make it but we now see why it takes a while to promote some of these kids.
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Showed just how the gap between our VFL side and an AFL game is. I am sure could make it but we now see why it takes a while to promote some of these kids.
He has played 2 games. Might want to cut the kid a bit of slack. Plus Hawthorn are a pretty decent side and have some ok small men. 3 consecutive GF wins will tell you that.
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Showed just how the gap between our VFL side and an AFL game is. I am sure could make it but we now see why it takes a while to promote some of these kids.
He has played 2 games. Might want to cut the kid a bit of slack. Plus Hawthorn are a pretty decent side and have some ok small men. 3 consecutive GF wins will tell you that.
I agree BT but I didn't intend to baghim. Just stating the obvious and I do believe I said something along the lines of ," I think he will make it". There's some of the slack you wanted.
Not every post on here is designed to slag off a player.
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Has peaked must trade
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Went well, showed a bit. Must move him to the half back position now with the other 18... :snidegrin
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Showed just how the gap between our VFL side and an AFL game is. I am sure could make it but we now see why it takes a while to promote some of these kids.
He has played 2 games. Might want to cut the kid a bit of slack. Plus Hawthorn are a pretty decent side and have some ok small men. 3 consecutive GF wins will tell you that.
Besides that one passage of play last week I'm still waiting to see what you see BT.
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Went well, showed a bit. Must move him to the half back position now with the other 18... :snidegrin
what position has he been playing?
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Please excuse WAT he doesn't understand such things
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Went well, showed a bit. Must move him to the half back position now with the other 18... :snidegrin
Do you watch our matches at all or even know who our players are?
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Went well, showed a bit. Must move him to the half back position now with the other 18... :snidegrin
Do you watch our matches at all or even know who our players are?
Only Batch and Morris.
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Keep in the side
Goes in harder than his senior list clogging teammates
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just dont move him to half back........ :whistle
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just dont move him to half back........ :whistle
How I'd like our team to be set up (based on the players named on the weekend)
B: Chaplin,
HB:
C: McIntosh, Grigg, Menadue,
HF: Short, Martin, Rioli, Vlastuin
F: Riewoldt, Lloyd, Vickery, Houli
R: Griffiths, Edwards, Miles, Deledio, B. Ellis- must see this line up at all centre square bounces with Grigg
IC: C. Ellis, Hampson, Castagna,
Dropped - we might as well go in 2 players down: Morris and Batch
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just dont move him to half back........ :whistle
How I'd like our team to be set up (based on the players named on the weekend)
B: Chaplin,
HB:
C: McIntosh, Grigg, Menadue,
HF: Short, Martin, Rioli, Vlastuin
F: Riewoldt, Lloyd, Vickery, Houli
R: Griffiths, Edwards, Miles, Deledio, B. Ellis- must see this line up at all centre square bounces with Grigg
IC: C. Ellis, Hampson, Castagna,
Dropped - we might as well go in 2 players down: Morris and Batch
WAT I like it :thumbsup
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Forgot to put Castagna forward since he's been playing there all year. At least we have a strong, contested marking, pack crashing duo in Vickery and Hampson who can rotate amongst each other every time they get a run on and kick a couple of goals
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George os a good kid wants to learn
I hope he took some notes from his time on Cyril, should of learnt a few good lessons
Persist
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Went well, showed a bit. Must move him to the half back position now with the other 18... :snidegrin
what position has he been playing?
Looked like back
Keep him there develop with rance grimes yarren
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Kid gets my thumbs up.
Goes in hard, runs hard, has a real crack.
Play him for the rest of the damned year...
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Went well, showed a bit. Must move him to the half back position now with the other 18... :snidegrin
what position has he been playing?
Looked like back
Keep him there develop with rance grimes yarren
:facepalm
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Kid played well
Got dropped
Nice
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Kid didn't play well at all
Made some glaring mistakes and had to go back to VFL
Will be a good football but needs to improve with decision making and defensive side of game
I like the kid
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Kid didn't play well at all
Made some glaring mistakes and had to go back to VFL
Will be a good football but needs to improve with decision making and defensive side of game
I like the kid
Vetran players make glaring mistakes week in week out, why aren't they sent back to VFL to improve there decision making?
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Kid played well
Got dropped
Nice
Yep, go figure, with these stupid decisions it is getting harder and harder to support Hardwick and his selection and coaching panel.
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Kid didn't play well at all
Made some glaring mistakes and had to go back to VFL
Will be a good football but needs to improve with decision making and defensive side of game
I like the kid
Vetran players make glaring mistakes week in week out, why aren't they sent back to VFL to improve there decision making?
Hunt ,Astbury Maric Lennon are there for same reasons
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Kid didn't play well at all
Made some glaring mistakes and had to go back to VFL
Will be a good football but needs to improve with decision making and defensive side of game
I like the kid
Vetran players make glaring mistakes week in week out, why aren't they sent back to VFL to improve there decision making?
Hunt ,Astbury Maric Lennon are there for same reasons
Yet Morris, Batch, Houli and B Ellis aren't...go figure.
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Easy to figure if you watch the game
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Kid didn't play well at all
Made some glaring mistakes and had to go back to VFL
Will be a good football but needs to improve with decision making and defensive side of game
I like the kid
Vetran players make glaring mistakes week in week out, why aren't they sent back to VFL to improve there decision making?
Hunt ,Astbury Maric Lennon are there for same reasons
What about Chaplin why isn't he in the VFL?
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Kid played well
Got dropped
Nice
He didn't play well, really struggled at times alot but i think he would have learnt alot from being on Cyril for a period of time
Having said that i wouldn't of dropped him, really want to see us give kids a block of games rather than 2-3 and your out
Problem with this decision is the fact that for 7 weeks there is a group of more senior blokes who been woeful over that period and they dont get dropped.
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Kid played well
Got dropped
Nice
He didn't play well, really struggled at times alot but i think he would have learnt alot from being on Cyril for a period of time
Having said that i wouldn't of dropped him, really want to see us give kids a block of games rather than 2-3 and your out
Problem with this decision is the fact that for 7 weeks there is a group of more senior blokes who been woeful over that period and they dont get dropped.
If we can see this, why can't DH?
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Kid didn't play well at all
Made some glaring mistakes and had to go back to VFL
Will be a good football but needs to improve with decision making and defensive side of game
I like the kid
Vetran players make glaring mistakes week in week out, why aren't they sent back to VFL to improve there decision making?
Hunt ,Astbury Maric Lennon are there for same reasons
What about Chaplin why isn't he in the VFL?
As there is no one to replace him
Fact
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Oh do me a favour......a cardboard cut out of Jarrod Silvester could replace Chaplin at this point....
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Kid didn't play well at all
Made some glaring mistakes and had to go back to VFL
Will be a good football but needs to improve with decision making and defensive side of game
I like the kid
Vetran players make glaring mistakes week in week out, why aren't they sent back to VFL to improve there decision making?
Hunt ,Astbury Maric Lennon are there for same reasons
What about Chaplin why isn't he in the VFL?
As there is no one to replace him
lol
Fact
lol
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Oh do me a favour......a cardboard cut out of Jarrod Silvester could replace Chaplin at this point....
Seriously watch the game
He played alright last week
Do blame the player blame the club
Who do you replace him with ? Elton
?
Lol
You watched him play ? He can't
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"fact"
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:banghead
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"fact"
Well is it a fact
As he is back in the twos
Fact !!!
Chaplin playing ? "Georgie" in the twos
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I can 'sorta' understand why we dropped George for the Swans game, but only just 'sorta'. The Swans are a pretty hardened side so its 'sorta' ok to drop a 1 gamer. McIntosh & Houli both going out would make a 1 gamer our main HB, that could leave him too exposed too early. Only 'sorta' though ...
As for Hunt coming in ... well ... err ... I spose that's another 'sorta' ... at least it rhymes with slaughter ... :help
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Oh do me a favour......a cardboard cut out of Jarrod Silvester could replace Chaplin at this point....
Seriously watch the game
He played alright last week
Do blame the player blame the club
Who do you replace him with ? Elton
?
Lol
You watched him play ? He can't
I watch the games....
Astbury is a better match up this weekend on Tippett.
Even you Jackstar can comprehend that surely??
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Oh do me a favour......a cardboard cut out of Jarrod Silvester could replace Chaplin at this point....
Seriously watch the game
He played alright last week
Do blame the player blame the club
Who do you replace him with ? Elton
?
Lol
You watched him play ? He can't
I watch the games....
Astbury is a better match up this weekend on Tippett.
Even you Jackstar can comprehend that surely??
Think Astbury and Chaplin are bad as each other
Saying that
Think Grimes might go to Tippett
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Oh do me a favour......a cardboard cut out of Jarrod Silvester could replace Chaplin at this point....
Seriously watch the game
He played alright last week
Do blame the player blame the club
Who do you replace him with ? Elton
?
Lol
You watched him play ? He can't
I watch the games....
Astbury is a better match up this weekend on Tippett.
Even you Jackstar can comprehend that surely??
Think Astbury and Chaplin are bad as each other
Saying that
Think Grimes might go to Tippett
I'd like to say "not a chance" but who knows with Hardwick?
Grimes would be better suited on Buddy than Tippett, and Rance could go to Tippett.
Grimes is agile and can get to guys on the lead, where's Tippitt is more your stay at home, wrestle KPF. Perfect for Astbury.
Whatever happens I'm sure Hardwick will move them all around so no one is accountable including himself.
Not sure what roll Chaplin plays..... ever....
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"fact"
Well is it a fact
As he is back in the twos
Fact !!!
Chaplin playing ? "Georgie" in the twos
Do you know what the word means?
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"fact"
Well is it a fact
As he is back in the twos
Fact !!!
Chaplin playing ? "Georgie" in the twos
Do you know what the word means?
Yes I do
But obviously from reading your quality posts you don't :lol :rollin
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Oh do me a favour......a cardboard cut out of Jarrod Silvester could replace Chaplin at this point....
Seriously watch the game
He played alright last week
Do blame the player blame the club
Who do you replace him with ? Elton
?
Lol
You watched him play ? He can't
I watch the games....
Astbury is a better match up this weekend on Tippett.
Even you Jackstar can comprehend that surely??
Astbury is poo probably second worst to play in the seniors after Hampson
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Oh do me a favour......a cardboard cut out of Jarrod Silvester could replace Chaplin at this point....
Seriously watch the game
He played alright last week
Do blame the player blame the club
Who do you replace him with ? Elton
?
Lol
You watched him play ? He can't
I watch the games....
Astbury is a better match up this weekend on Tippett.
Even you Jackstar can comprehend that surely??
Astbury is poo probably second worst to play in the seniors after Hampson
You're so sexy when you're serious :-*
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Oh do me a favour......a cardboard cut out of Jarrod Silvester could replace Chaplin at this point....
Seriously watch the game
He played alright last week
Do blame the player blame the club
Who do you replace him with ? Elton
?
Lol
You watched him play ? He can't
I watch the games....
Astbury is a better match up this weekend on Tippett.
Even you Jackstar can comprehend that surely??
Astbury is poo probably second worst to play in the seniors after Hampson
Hampson going ok at the moment
#cantaptoadvantage
#betterthanivanandangus
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:facepalm
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:facepalm
:spudnikbackflip
That's Hammer jumping up very high at a centre bounce
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Oh do me a favour......a cardboard cut out of Jarrod Silvester could replace Chaplin at this point....
Seriously watch the game
He played alright last week
Do blame the player blame the club
Who do you replace him with ? Elton
?
Lol
You watched him play ? He can't
I watch the games....
Astbury is a better match up this weekend on Tippett.
Even you Jackstar can comprehend that surely??
Think Astbury and Chaplin are bad as each other
Saying that
Think Grimes might go to Tippett
I'd like to say "not a chance" but who knows with Hardwick?
Grimes would be better suited on Buddy than Tippett, and Rance could go to Tippett.
Grimes is agile and can get to guys on the lead, where's Tippitt is more your stay at home, wrestle KPF. Perfect for Astbury.
Whatever happens I'm sure Hardwick will move them all around so no one is accountable including himself.
Not sure what roll Chaplin plays..... ever....
Except that Rance towels up Buddy every time they play and Grimes held Tippett so well last time, Tippett got frustrated and sniped Grimes. Unless Tippett starts clunking them and Franklin isn't doing anything I'd expect the match-ups to be what they were last time.
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:facepalm
:spudnikbackflip
That's Hammer jumping up very high at a centre bounce
Great so that's two things he can do
1 train well
2 jump high
Well what more do we need than that
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:facepalm
:spudnikbackflip
That's Hammer jumping up very high at a centre bounce
Great so that's two things he can do
1 train well
2 jump high
Well what more do we need than that
Well if you actually go to a game
His tap Ruck work is pretty good
His taps to advantage are very high
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Yeah stuffing brilliant
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What I liked about him from the first time I saw him - he seems high energy / dynamic
As opposed to the slowish softish list blockers we normally trot out
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Played well. A shining light.
Dimwit should hang his head in shame not playing kids sooner in his tenure.
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Yep, very well played.
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Played well. A shining light.
Dimwit should hang his head in shame not playing kids sooner in his tenure.
:clapping
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:facepalm
:spudnikbackflip
That's Hammer jumping up very high at a centre bounce
Great so that's two things he can do
1 train well
2 jump high
Well what more do we need than that
Well if you actually go to a game
His tap Ruck work is pretty good
His taps to advantage are very high
I known people who know of you.
You dont get to games like you claim.
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Rated 4th best Tiger tonight on the AFL live site.
19 disposals (13k, 6h, 7c, 12u, 79% eff.)
7 marks (2 inside F50)
3 tackles
2 clearances
2 stoppage wins
3 inside F50s
2 rebound D50s
2 clangers
1 free for
1 free against
2 goals
84% gametime
http://www.afl.com.au/match-centre/2016/16/wb-v-rich
Top effort for a kid playing just his third game. He took the game on and didn't take a backstep when the loose ball had to be won.
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I liked what I saw. Definitely not afraid to go in for the footy.
Didn't panic either. Good game from the boy. :clapping
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"Pretty good" Dimma reckons
Not absolute star like grigg
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I didn't know what everyone was crappin on about with this bloke til tonight. He is good. Fast, brave and has some good skills, definitely going to be a decent player.
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Yep hooter. Don't know what the fuss is about re his kicking skills. They're fine!
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Plays without fear, prepared to take the game on.
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I still can't believe he was dropped the first time after showing good signs
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Got what we need :clapping
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Big tone and I have been pumping up George for a while. Has what it takes. :clapping
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I didn't know what everyone was crappin on about with this bloke til tonight. He is good. Fast, brave and has some good skills, definitely going to be a decent player.
Yep hooter. Don't know what the fuss is about re his kicking skills. They're fine!
His footskills have improved tremendously but last year they were truly appalling.....made Hunt look like Suckling.....
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Plays without fear, prepared to take the game on.
Love this!
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I didn't know what everyone was crappin on about with this bloke til tonight. He is good. Fast, brave and has some good skills, definitely going to be a decent player.
Yep hooter. Don't know what the fuss is about re his kicking skills. They're fine!
His footskills have improved tremendously but last year they were truly appalling.....made Hunt look like Suckling.....
I guess that would finally be a tick for our much maligned development coaches........ :shh
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Yep hooter. Don't know what the fuss is about re his kicking skills. They're fine!
Think he scrubbed one but who didn't? He has definitely improved his kicking/decision making
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It's a yes from me! Loved his dare and a beautiful crumbling goal is something we've lacked this year.
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Like Markov, does hardwick know his name?
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Like Markov, does hardwick know his name?
Wallace and hardwick
How lucky are we
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Thought in a few passages of play he showed composure and polish under pressure.
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Keeper
Will get promoted
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Leg speed and reflexes - level up
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Rookie Jason Castagna was also singled out by the coach for another impressive performance, winning a season-high 23 possessions and five inside 50s in his fourth game.
The 19-year-old, who started the season as a half-back, has improved every game and is shooting for a senior list spot in the last six weeks.
"It's been good to break back into the side and play a bit of midfield and forward and find a bit of the ball," he told AFL.com.au.
"I'm rapt to be out there and playing my role for the team, I just want to keep my spot and hopefully play out the rest of the season.
"I feel a lot more comfortable in my second year as part of the group and a lot more comfortable with my role."
Source: AFL website (http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-07-16/star-tiger-brett-deledio-done-for-the-day-after-calf-problem)
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George is going really well.
Great effort by him to have improved in most areas of his game. But I think his kicking wasn't as bad as a few made out.
Anyway it doesn't really matter, he is fast becoming an important part of our future.
Where do people see him playing long term?
Could he eventually become a regular in our midfield?
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Like this guy
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the anti-grigg
go george
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A bit like Morris :help
the good bits
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Where do people see him playing long term?
Could he eventually become a regular in our midfield?
Yep in the mid field. Reckon he can play both inside and outside mid roles because he plays without fear.
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Where do people see him playing long term?
Could he eventually become a regular in our midfield?
Yep in the mid field. Reckon he can play both inside and outside mid roles because he plays without fear.
Like Taylor Hunt then
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I'm really happy with what Castagna is doing for us, but I'm no closer to knowing what his best role is! So far he has shown great desire to hunt the ball & that he can play at both ends. I'm loving his fight & aggression, he's a real goer!
Ultimately I'd like to make him into a small/medium defender, someone who can go against the gun small forwards that have always troubled us. I think we need to give him the responsibility of a one on one defensive match up & back him to win the battle over four quarters. I'd like to see him get the job on Cyril this week as a learning process, just to see where he is at. I don't expect him to beat Cyril, but I know he'll give it a red hot go & that's all I'm asking for! Go George! :clapping
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Although it would be nice to have him as a defender, I can't see him having the non stop defensive qualities to be one.
He offers more up the ground IMHO.
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Apparently if he is a midfielder he is not allowed to play in the back line
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Although it would be nice to have him as a defender, I can't see him having the non stop defensive qualities to be one.
He offers more up the ground IMHO.
I agree.
And I'm not sure he has the natural footy smarts to be a genuine mid.
I was thinking more like the Puopolo roll at Hawthorn. Not really sure what George is like overhead but he has a lot of the other similarities to Pop.
With our lack decent key forwards it would be nice to have some real damaging smaller forwards like Pop, Cyril and Breust.
Could ours sound something like this in a couple of years, George, Rioli and Lloyd??
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We need someone in the backline
Can't have all george c Ellis vlastuin elsewhere
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We need someone in the backline
Can't have all george c Ellis vlastuin elsewhere
Yes you can.
What is wrong with
Short Rance Grimes
McIntosh Hurley Yarran
Old man Lids could even play back when he isn't injuried. :whistle :lol
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Touché
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Touché
:thumbsup
Nice to see you can take a joke.
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Imagine if Matthews had played Voss in the backline....
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Think Short is a great option across half-back personally. Tough for his size, good user of the ball, runs the pill out.
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Short is a tidy player. Still not sold, but he's showing great signs.
Why the hell was George dropped. >:(
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Short is a tidy player. Still not sold, but he's showing great signs.
Why the hell was George dropped. >:(
Not playing the Richmond way, he plays on too much and tries to create play, not the done thing, you only have to watch yesterdays game to understand that.
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:lol funny bc its true
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Short is a tidy player. Still not sold, but he's showing great signs.
Why the hell was George dropped. >:(
Not playing the Richmond way, he plays on too much and tries to create play, not the done thing, you only have to watch yesterdays game to understand that.
I saw him give genuine run an option from behind th ball carrier several occasions mistake 1
so cracks in hard grigg was like WTf
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Jason Castagna (Richmond)
Most eyes might have been on Richmond's high profile recruits on Friday night, but the efforts of the rookie-listed Castagna should not have gone overlooked. The 20-year-old chipped in with three goals in the Tigers' win over the Crows, showing good goal sense and speed around the forward 50. He might have only had eight disposals across the game, but his ability to pounce on his opportunities should see him come into calculations for AFL selection this year if a senior list position opens up.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-02-26/liked-the-look-of-12-eyecatchers-from-jlt-week-two
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Should play round 1 I reckon.
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Good kid Jason. Has worked hard during the summer too. Has put on a bit of muscle and still has speed to burn. I would like Rioli (obviously a lock), Butler and George all to play in round 1. They played with good chemistry.
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Might not be a good fit for us. He is to hard at it and hungry and driven...we cant afford to have that type of player clouding the minds of all the good citizens we have picked up in the draft over the years that go to water at the very hint of pressure. Give the kid the spot FFS and stop pee farting around. Its the bleeding obvious
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does he fit the 60% criteria?
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Needs to play in the back line permanently
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Stop it, you two.
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does he fit the 60% criteria?
dont know, ask Gary Ablett senior, he would know better on who fits that category :o
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What do we all think about his kicking?
From memory some were pretty adamant that his kicking was below VFL standard.
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What do we all think about his kicking?
From memory some were pretty adamant that his kicking was below VFL standard.
Has worked hard on that bt, and it shows. :shh
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What do we all think about his kicking?
From memory some were pretty adamant that his kicking was below VFL standard.
I feel like you are saying that to imply his kicking is good? Funny cause I opened this thread to make a similar comment, except mentioning that some people were adamant that he was a good kick :shh
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What do we all think about his kicking?
From memory some were pretty adamant that his kicking was below VFL standard.
if it was then we have bigger issues in the form of who on earth recruited someone who couldnt kick a footy....below VFL standard?
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What do we all think about his kicking?
From memory some were pretty adamant that his kicking was below VFL standard.
I feel like you are saying that to imply his kicking is good? Funny cause I opened this thread to make a similar comment, except mentioning that some people were adamant that he was a good kick :shh
I am saying that to imply his kicking is good.
And to imply that some may have been a little overzealous with their comments on his kicking.
I'm not saying he haven't improved his kicking but I don't think it even possible to have improved it so much in one season to where it is now unless maybe it wasn't as bad as first thought by some.
It's not "Dusty" good but is better than Grigg, Hunt, MacIntosh and Conca.
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I don't think we're going to agree on this so I'll just leave you with one comment.
His kicking was shizen. It has improved but there has to still be question marks on his kicking.
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What do we all think about his kicking?
From memory some were pretty adamant that his kicking was below VFL standard.
I feel like you are saying that to imply his kicking is good? Funny cause I opened this thread to make a similar comment, except mentioning that some people were adamant that he was a good kick :shh
I am saying that to imply his kicking is good.
And to imply that some may have been a little overzealous with their comments on his kicking.
I'm not saying he haven't improved his kicking but I don't think it even possible to have improved it so much in one season to where it is now unless maybe it wasn't as bad as first thought by some.
It's not "Dusty" good but is better than Grigg, Hunt, MacIntosh and Conca.
Don't think we will see Castagna with kick in duties like a few mentioned but i agree he has Grigg covered.
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George is going really well.
Great effort by him to have improved in most areas of his game. But I think his kicking wasn't as bad as a few made out.
Anyway it doesn't really matter, he is fast becoming an important part of our future.
Where do people see him playing long term?
Could he eventually become a regular in our midfield?
Personally would like to see him play in the back half his pace run and aggression is something lacking back there we know he will take the game on its something we need.
Did not think i would be asking for it so early in the piece but i would like to see Rioli on a wing.
That would allow us to play Butler, Lloyd and if he shows enough Bolton in the fwd half.
Team i would like to see on the park but it wont happen would go something like this.
Mainly i like the structure the lack of soft squibs the pace and theres flexability with a very strong interchange
FB: Castagna - Astbury - Grimes Four players over 190cm but it is not slow Astbury aside providing plenty of run and pace.
HB: McIntosh - Rance - Markov.
C: Rioli - Martin - Menadue. Plenty of pace hard runners and grunt.
R: Nankervis - Caddy - Cotchin
HF: Lloyd - Riewoldt - Moore/Chol. Three talls but a different tall set up than the dinosaur set up we have put up with. Very quick smalls and goal kicking ones at that.
FF: Butler - Griffiths - Bolton/Edwards
Int: Prestia - Miles - Vlastuin - Grigg/C Ellis. Any of these guys could be starting 22 to me it does not matter who starts as mids they will all spend a similar amount of time on the park
No B Ellis, Houli, Lambert, Hunt Morris and others
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No room for Short Claw?
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No room for Short Claw?
Just not 100% sure about him. In fairness he did not do a lot wrong and his kicking is something thats needed i dunno im looking for an aggresive sml fwd who will hunt his opponent and take the game on i think Castagna fits that.
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No room for Short Claw?
Just not 100% sure about him. In fairness he did not do a lot wrong and his kicking is something thats needed i dunno im looking for an aggresive sml fwd who will hunt his opponent and take the game on i think Castagna fits that.
Simply going off last years form he would be picked in the top 10 if it were up to me.
We need to look forward and go with kids like Short... and Castagna, Markov, Menadue, Cellis and even Butler going off last weeeks game.
There is some real pace amongst those kids (also add Rioli) which has obviously been our recruiting policy over the last few years, but now it's time to start playing them regularly.
Forgot the one paced plodders that have gotten us only so far.
I must admit I'm more enthusiastic about this year than I have been previously due to the potential and excitement of our young speedsters.
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Lively, young Richmond forward Jason Castagna will be upgraded from the Club’s rookie list to the primary list ahead of the 2017 season.
The 20-year-old has been rewarded for his impressive efforts throughout the pre-season and will be eligible for selection in the Tigers’ senior side.
He had a strong JLT Community Series campaign, kicking five goals in three games and showcasing his running ability.
Castagna, who played TAC Cup football with Northern Knights, was selected by Richmond with its second pick (No. 29 overall) in the 2015 AFL rookie draft.
He was elevated to the Club’s senior list on the eve of the 2016 season and played five AFL games all-up last year.
Richmond has another senior list position available after ruckman Shaun Hampson was placed on the Club’s long-term injury list.
"We'll lodge the paperwork this morning and Jason Castagna will be upgraded," said coach Damien Hardwick at Thursday morning's press conference.
"The other [spot] we'll probably leave at this stage from a flexibility point of view. Mabior Chol has been very handy in that position, Ivan Soldo has showed some signs as well, so we'll leave the other option open at this stage."
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2017-03-22/castagna-senior-list-elevation
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Well done 'George' :clapping. Hope he kicks a few against the Blues tomorrow night.
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George is by no means a star and probably will never be but I liked the look of this kid from day one, as did the Doc.
He runs hard, tackles, isn't scared, plays with real passion and basically just has a crack.
I hope this year he can cement a spot in our best 22 as he makes footy enjoyable to watch.
Congrats to the young man or his hard work.
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George is by no means a star and probably will never be but I liked the look of this kid from day one, as did the Doc.
He runs hard, tackles, isn't scared, plays with real passion and basically just has a crack.
I hope this year he can cement a spot in our best 22 as he makes footy enjoyable to watch.
Congrats to the young man or his hard work.
:clapping
Spot on
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George is by no means a star and probably will never be but I liked the look of this kid from day one, as did the Doc.
He runs hard, tackles, isn't scared, plays with real passion and basically just has a crack.
I hope this year he can cement a spot in our best 22 as he makes footy enjoyable to watch.
Congrats to the young man or his hard work.
oh for a few more footballers like that.
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Well deserved, kid has good pace, intent and pretty good goal smarts. Just hope he sticks to the easy option (most likely the handball) and doesn't kick too much and he should be good :thumbsup
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Ironically, I reckon George should be played down back where his pace can be fully exploited. Short, on the other hand can utilise his superb kicking, crumbing nouse and quick hand to foot snapping to great effect up forward. In any case it is good to see him get promoted.
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George is by no means a star and probably will never be but I liked the look of this kid from day one, as did the Doc.
He runs hard, tackles, isn't scared, plays with real passion and basically just has a crack.
I hope this year he can cement a spot in our best 22 as he makes footy enjoyable to watch.
Congrats to the young man or his hard work.
Yeah it was a good call.Personally i have wanted us to develop him as a lock down sml defender who will run hard when the opportunity arises.
Main reason ive argued this is he has done real well in the role and the two facts we already have a plethora of sml Fwds and are screaming out still for a sml defender with his attributes to lock down on dangerous smalls.You would take George over Bellis Hunt Houli and what he can potentially bring every day of the week.
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Castagna shines
richmondfc.com.au
March 24, 2017
Lively Richmond forward Jason Castagna seized the opportunity presented to him at Tigerland this week.
Promoted from the rookie list to the primary list on the eve of the season, and then selected in Richmond’s senior side for the opening round clash with Carlton, Castagna produced an impressive performance.
He had 20 disposals, including 10 contested possessions, 10 score involvements and five inside-50s, took three marks (all inside forward-50), applied four tackles, kicked two goals (2.4), and formed a potent partnership in the Tigers’ attack with fellow exciting, young, small forwards Daniel Rioli and Dan Butler (six goals all-up between the three of them).
“The pressure up forward, with those two boys running and tackling, helps me out to do the same,” Castagna told ‘ABC Grandstand’ post-match.
“We trained with each other all pre-season . . . I think we know each other’s strengths pretty well.
“We’re just playing our role. We’ve got great tall forwards like (Jack) Riewoldt and ‘Griffo’ (Ben Griffiths), and we just try and get to their feet . . .
“We can count on them to bring it to the front of the pack all the time, and lucky enough, we got on the end of a few (against Carlton).”
Castagna, who played five games in his debut season of league football with Richmond last year, outlined his 2017 aspirations . . .
“Firstly, I just wanted to play Round 1, and I’ll take it week by week. Hopefully I can play out the season and keep kicking some goals . . . I was pretty flat with a few of the shots on goal (on Thursday night), but, hopefully, if I can just keep getting those shots, the goals will come,” he said.
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2017-03-24/castagna-shines
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Was nice seeing us with some fast little blokes kicking carltanks arse for a change
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Was a very good game and a breath of fresh air but gee wiz that kicking :lol. Think some were a bit quick to use one game during the pre season to define his kicking skill level while ignoring every other game we've seen
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Probably needs to do the Foley and handball more
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Is not AFL standard.
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Everything bar his kicking for goal is,
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No need to duplicate threads
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Everything bar his kicking for goal is,
His decision making looks very poor to me. Might improve with experience, but not up to AFL standard at the moment.
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Everything bar his kicking for goal is,
His decision making looks very poor to me. Might improve with experience, but not up to AFL standard at the moment.
The stats, ie kicking goals, tackles would suggest otherwise, I'd argue that if he improved his goal kicking he'd be an elite small fwd already. 19 goals 16 is pretty handy for someone not up to AFL standard wouldn't you think?
But I do agree he needs to improve decision making as well, I think he's one of those players whose errors really stand out and a lot of his good work gets forgotten.
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His body not in tune with his brain, hopefully he can get overcome a very bad case of goalkicking dyslexia.
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Surprised no ones posted in this thread given his goal kicking
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Everything bar his kicking for goal is,
His decision making looks very poor to me. Might improve with experience, but not up to AFL standard at the moment.
The stats, ie kicking goals, tackles would suggest otherwise, I'd argue that if he improved his goal kicking he'd be an elite small fwd already. 19 goals 16 is pretty handy for someone not up to AFL standard wouldn't you think?
No, I wouldn't think. I don't have a problem with his skills, although his kicking in general (not just for goal) could certainly be better. He finds the footy often enough for sure and I like the tackling, pace and pressure.
But I just don't think his decision making is that good. I certainly don't think his decision making is at the required level to be an effective player in the AFL over the longer term. So I don't see his decision making as being up to AFL standard. As I said, some more experience might improve his game awareness and hopefully that translates into better decision making.
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I acknowledge decision making needs improving although more so around goal, up field it's generally ok for mine. Having said that he's arguably been our most effective small fwd this season so I think he's tracking really well for a young bloke
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He's going to cost us a final
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I acknowledge decision making needs improving although more so around goal, up field it's generally ok for mine. Having said that he's arguably been our most effective small fwd this season so I think he's tracking really well for a young bloke
I get the impression he rushes things, especially when closer to goal. It blinds him to opportunities.
Elite decision making under pressure is what makes Cotchin the player he is.
Castagna will be a very good player for us if he can improve his decision making. I think his kicking for goal will improve as he gets more comfortable with playing at the top level.
And FWIW, I think he was an great value pick for what he cost us.
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Irest my case. Drop him for God sake
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Told ya last week should always kick bananas
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I'll give him that one
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Always happens ;D
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Filler
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Merge thread plz
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Surprised no ones posted in this thread given his goal kicking
Decided to make a new one for some reason
Merge threads plz
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We usually talk about the 3 amigos together in the other thread.
Georgie missed out on a huge bag tonight. Could have had 6 as the four he missed we're the simpler shots. Ironically, he kicked the toughest one.
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Castagna is probably the strongest and the best of them above his head. Finds his own ball a fair bit but it's just a shame his goal kicking is so putrid.
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This is what I'm trying to get at re castagna, it was tear your hair out type stuff early, but he's finished with 3.4 for the night. That's handy in anyone language.
Got a lot to work with does Georgie boy, just hope we fix his weaknesses sooner rather than later.
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This is what I'm trying to get at re castagna, it was tear your hair out type stuff early, but he's finished with 3.4 for the night. That's handy in anyone language.
Got a lot to work with does Georgie boy, just hope we fix his weaknesses sooner rather than later.
If he learns to kick he could become one of the best in the comp in that role. Can't afford not to kick straight in big games.
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If only Georgey could steal Lennon's kicking ability...
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If only Georgey could steal Lennon's kicking ability...
Lennon wouldn't have a lot going for him if that happened.
He'd be just about on life support.
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You know, if they made mnm's rice crispys but in a mint flavour they would sell a heap. Im gunna get onto it.
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He certainly finished off well. Just frustrating early on. Can't argue with generating 7 shots on goal.
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As others have said if he can improve his kicking and decision making he could be a weapon.
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Castagna's best quality is he doesn't drop his head.
Good boy.
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Castagna has got a set of plums on him, doesn't sulk if he misses it, wins his own ball, creates opportunities and is young. Will only get better.
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We are set up in the years to come for some exquisite point kicking
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We are set up in the years to come for some exquisite point kicking
LOL ill pay that! He kicks so many of the stuffing things that he may as well be kicking goals anyway :lol
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Told ya so
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Tiger Rising Star has last laugh after 'stitch up'
afl.com.au
31 July 2017
THIS time there is nothing to complain about, or at least for Dan Butler to mischievously do so on Jason Castagna's behalf.
Castagna's breakout AFL performance – a four-goal haul in round four – ignited talk in the Castagna-Butler household of a potential NAB AFL Rising Star nomination. How much talk, only the Tiger tyros will ever know.
But Butler saw an opportunity after Essendon defender and 2016 No.1 overall pick Andy McGrath's 28 disposals pipped Castagna for the gong that April week.
He went to the effort of manipulating his mobile phone contacts to text himself, appearing to be an aggrieved Castagna bemoaning being overlooked. That message then made its way to Facebook, much to their Richmond teammates' amusement.
Castagna had the last laugh on Monday, joining Butler as a NAB AFL Rising Star nominee for his 16 disposals, three goals, nine score involvements and five marks inside 50 in the Tigers' 35-point win over Gold Coast on Saturday.
"It was a pretty good stitch up," Castagna told AFL.com.au.
"He might have said something to me like, 'You might be a chance this week', but there were a couple of others who played pretty well that week – 28 touches is pretty handy."
The Castagna-Butler comedy act has played out popularly in the public this year, most notably in the elongated table tennis competition that left the former with 'D.B' initialled on his rear.
Somewhat lost in the humour is the 21-year-olds' impressive rise to prominence after respective struggles since both lobbed at Punt Road in 2014. They started pre-season reasonably believing they could be rivals for the same spot.
Castagna has started each of his three AFL seasons on the rookie list and been elevated every time, but five matches across his first two seasons – in a variety of roles from defence to the wing and up forward – left him vulnerable going into 2017.
Instead, the Northern Knights and Warrandyte Bloods product forced his way into senior calculations for round one as a defensive forward and hasn't missed a match.
"It's probably recognising what my strengths were and playing to them a bit more. You can always look at your weaknesses and work at them," he said.
"Being on the rookie list at the start of each year gave me a bit of motivation to want to play well and get the call-up. But I've really loved playing footy at Richmond and haven't seen it as a tough journey."
Richmond's top-four status owes plenty to a remodelled small-ball forward line with Castagna, Butler and Daniel Rioli as the fixtures. Shai Bolton and Tyson Stengle have come along for the ride at different stages.
Castagna leads the trio for goals with 23 ahead of Butler (20) and Rioli (18), while Butler's 58 tackles is slightly more than Castagna's 56 and Rioli's 53.
Castagna, whose father Carlos played for Fitzroy's under-19s in the 1980s, is convinced the Tigers' forward structure will hold up in the finals cauldron.
"It's pretty exciting coming to the pointy end of the season, trying to keep up this brand of footy we're playing," he said.
"We'll keep doing what we're doing. The main thing for us is just that pressure to help the boys further up the field, but hopefully we can kick some goals, too."
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-07-31/tiger-rising-star-castagna-has-last-laugh-after-stitch-up
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Well done Georgie boy, that's all 3 now :thumbsup
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He certainly wasn't too popular with the faithful at halftime .
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He certainly wasn't too popular with the faithful at halftime .
Quite reasonably too
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He certainly wasn't too popular with the faithful at halftime .
Quite reasonably too
Only deserves half the award
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Quite impressive to go from having your effigy set on fire by pmac21 at halftime to earning rising star nomination by stumps.
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If we settle for glass half fulls we will never win a flag.
ATM he gives much more than the other smalls and his intensity suits us for now. But fmd you do seriously have to ask how far can you go with yes another glass half full. I actually think the very fact he has been better than all of the other small fwds shows just how far of the pace the others have been.
Agree or not one thing that should be clear to everyone is the very fact in moving fwd we do not need so many sml fwds, so i ask myself who do we want to keep and who has the most upside.Who could fetch a decent return at trade.
Ask yourselves who out of the following longer term is most expendable Castagna, Butler, Edwards, Stengle, Rioli, Lloyd, Bolton, Me id happily delist Lloyd i dont think anyone else would offer anything for him , and trade Castagna and Edwards.
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Can't keep him on the rookie list forever either. So he's going to have to move to the main list...
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Takes Yarran's place on the main list as he is still on it... :rollin
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Takes Yarran's place on the main list as he is still on it... :rollin
:banghead :banghead Don't remind us
I guess you still have to question, is he main list worthy?
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My mate Jason - AFL Players
By Dan Butler
AFL Players Association
2 August 2017
Let me tell you a couple of things about my friend and housemate Jason Castagna.
Firstly, since he was named as the Round 19 Rising Star nominee he has been putting up photos of himself around the house.
And secondly, he’s not the worst cook in the world but the first time he tried to make spaghetti bolognese, he ended up producing a pasta soup — it tasted okay.
I’ve been a bit harsh on him so far (and may have lied about the first point) but he thoroughly deserves the rising star nod and was unlucky to miss out a few times beforehand — he’s had a great year.
I first met Jason when he arrived a few days after me at a pre-season training camp in Cairns at the end of 2014.
We didn’t really think much of each other to begin with and it was only after the first few weeks that we started to bond a bit more.
We spent a bit of time in rehab together early days, which helped us form a close friendship but mostly our love for table tennis that laid the foundation.
Jason lived at home for the first two years while I stayed with my uncle and aunty for our initial years at the Tigers.
Upon deciding to move out together at the end of last year, we knew there needed to be space to play table tennis — so much so that we only looked at houses that could fit the table inside.
Everyone is probably aware of the story already but after playing a fair bit, we decided to form a little competition between Jason and myself.
The crux of it was the winner would be the first person to win 150 games and after considering a form of punishment for the loser, which was originally something small like a portion of a month’s rent but that wasn’t enough, Nick Vlastuin came up with the idea of a tattoo.
I went into the tournament thinking Jason was the favourite and I’d say overall he’s probably slightly better but 150 games of any sport could see one of us improve more than the other.
Some nights we would play one or two games and others we would play 15 depending on our moods.
We slowly built it over a few months and there were some big lead changes along the way. Sometimes one of us would be up by 10 or 15 and it would eventually be clawed back.
Towards the end we had a big day at our house and all the boys came around to watch the final few games. There was probably around 70 or 80 people in our shed at the time cheering us on so it was full on.
I was ahead by about four or five games when we went into the last night and I ended up leading 149 to 144 towards the end. I was pretty confident heading into the last game but it was actually pretty nerve-racking given all the people who were around.
Jason tried to hit a cross-court forehand during match point and it went straight into the net, it was a pretty good feeling but I think everyone there wanted Jason to win because he was the underdog at the time.
Surely enough, he was branded for life — which can be seen on Instagram.
Since then, we haven’t played much. I guess we burnt out when it came to table tennis.
We’ve moved onto FIFA now, but I doubt there’ll be a competition with similar stakes because Jason isn’t that good — I’m leading by about 30 games at the moment.
Luckily for Jason, he goes a bit better on the footy field.
We honestly couldn’t have imagined being in this position at the start of the year.
We went into the pre-season thinking we were fighting for the same small forward role in the senior side. We spoke about it to begin with and it was strange to hope someone does well while simultaneously realising it may be at the detriment of your opportunities in the side.
We didn’t talk much about it as the pre-season continued but we wouldn’t do extras on our own that often because the other person would have to be doing it, too.
Luckily for both of us, we were able to fit into the same team which has been fantastic and we’ve both been able to contribute somewhat throughout the season.
We tend to limit our competitiveness with each other for outside activities like table tennis, FIFA or basketball and don’t mention who’s kicked more goals or laid more tackles.
I’ve probably torn enough shreds off him now, but all jokes aside he’s a ripping guy and one of my best mates. I couldn’t be happier knowing he’s getting rewarded for his hard work.
http://www.aflplayers.com.au/article/butler-my-mate-jason/#.WYG4sE1afpY.twitter
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Good on him, plenty to work with and has cemented himself as best 22.
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Well done
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I thought he was terrible yesterday. Maybe it went to his head.
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I thought he was terrible yesterday. Maybe it went to his head.
You never know which Amigo will fire up .
Bulter was ordinary against GC .....was very good yesterday.
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I thought he was terrible yesterday. Maybe it went to his head.
You never know which Amigo will fire up .
Bulter was ordinary against GC .....was very good yesterday.
That's right. Rioli led the way with his pressure yesterday was outstanding.
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Never seen a player with such an innate ability to undo good work....both his own and that of others...
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Never seen a player with such an innate ability to undo good work....both his own and that of others...
I dunno. Houli is pretty darn solid in this area. Georgie just does it more creatively.
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That feeling when we take a mark in the forward 50...... :clapping :gotigers....
....and then you realise it's Castagna.....:facepalm.....
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This guy really must be the worst set shot for goal in the AFL.
It's an absolute killer.
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This guy really must be the worst set shot for goal in the AFL.
I'm not one to say I told ya so but I told ya so
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I called it first.
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I'll back him, just because nobody is
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And still has more goals than Rioli!
And more score involments...
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Very similar stats but Rioli has him covered in effective disposal and goal assists. George has had a great year and works extremely hard but Rioli has pure footy talent...you don't learn that.
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And still has more goals than Rioli!
And more score involments...
There is no comparison between Rioli and Castagna. I have loved George and what he has given the club but he is not in the same universe as Rioli when it comes to football ability and nous.
Do you really think that he is better than Rioli?
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Bolton could be anything...he can also miss sitters like he did against North .
Might as well keep rolling the dice with George .
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And still has more goals than Rioli!
And more score involments...
There is no comparison between Rioli and Castagna. I have loved George and what he has given the club but he is not in the same universe as Rioli when it comes to football ability and nous.
Do you really think that he is better than Rioli?
I think he has had a better and more consistent year than Rioli.
Rioli had a period there of about 6 or 7 weeks where he was putrid, and I think even you can admit that.
George's last 3 weeks have also been putrid.
But to be honest I'd probably drop George this week because his form has dropped just like we should have done with Rioli during the year.
And I have no problem with George missing out because I'd prefer someone in form going into finals. We need to be ruthless if we want to win finals..
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I'll back him, just because nobody is
Me too, I'm backing George in, had a quiet couple of weeks but deserves to work his way through it
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I'll back him, just because nobody is
Me too, I'm backing George in, had a quiet couple of weeks but deserves to work his way through it
He can work through it in the reserves.
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I'll back him, just because nobody is
Me too, I'm backing George in, had a quiet couple of weeks but deserves to work his way through it
He can work through it in the reserves.
No one that will replace him can bring what he does
Bolton isn't ft enough
Lloyd too slow
Lennon too slow
We'll lose the balance that got us here if we drop him now.
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Exactly how fit does Bolton need to be to get more than 1 kick and lay more than 1 tackle in four quarters?
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It's a good situation to be in.
Having players fighting for a place in the team. You either put up or your out and must work your arse off to get back in. Once your in your better keep contributing or there's someone else who will.
Unlike Lennon, I think Lloyd (48 possessions, 10 tackles, 4 goals 5) worked his arse off to get back in.
Now Castagna can do the same.
Let's hope Dumma doesn't bring in Conca and Griffiths because they might contribute.
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Exactly how fit does Bolton need to be to get more than 1 kick and lay more than 1 tackle in four quarters?
Taking one or two games in isolation and ignoring the other 20?
Bolton as talented as he is, is not physically ready, you can clearly see that
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Next up is George:
After 5 games in his debut season, Castagna played all 25 matches this year, topping it off as a premiership player in only his second year of AFL. He kicked 26 goals and was ranked in the AFL top 10 for total tackles Inside 50 in 2017. His most productive games were 20 disposals & 2.4 vs Carlton in R1; 16 possies, 6 marks & 4 goals vs Brisbane in R4, 16 possies, 6 marks & 3.3 vs the Suns in R19; and 18 disposals, 3 marks and goal vs GWS in the Prelim Final.
Career stats to date:
Games Kicks Hballs Disp. Marks Tackles G.B G.A Clear. In50 Re50
2016 5 8.0 6.8 14.8 4.0 1.6 2.0 0.0 1.4 2.6 1.6
2017 25 6.0 4.8 10.8 3.0 3.0 26.20 0.4 0.5 2.1 0.2
http://finalsiren.com/PlayerStats.asp?PlayerID=2628
https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/pc-richmond-tigers--jason-castagna
How did we all rate Castagna's 2017?
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Well Big Tone is obviously floating around if Cas has a 10 :lol
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We'll know for sure when someone gives Rioli a 2..... :shh
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Not a great year, I gave him a 6. If he'd kicked better in front of goal I'd be much happier. Probably our worst set shot out of the whole list.
If he'd converted another handful of goals I'd be thrilled.
That said, he's surprisingly aerial for a bloke his size and is often a decent marking option in the absence of a second tall. Doubled his tackling numbers which is great too.
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If he could stick his marks and kick his goals he'd just about be the best small forward in the business
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I gave him a five mainly due to some games where he was very quiet. Should be overtaken by Bolton some stage soon as think his mate, Butler, has him covered for class.
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If he could finish then would just about be our best small forward. His pressure is elite and he can take a good contested mark.
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vastly underrated
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Hope he doesn't do a Lloyd and go from great year to almost trade-bait average.
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Kicked a goal in the qualifying final . Kicked another in the grand final. Underrated.
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Kicked a goal in the qualifying final . Kicked another in the grand final. Underrated.
Yeah those stats don't really sell "underrated" to me...
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Did a fine job keeping Bolton's spot warm.... :clapping
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Castagna up for the challenge
AFL media
12 November 2017
Livewire Richmond small forward Jason Castagna is fully aware of the challenges coming his way next season.
And those challenges aren’t confined to dealing with what opposition clubs will be throwing at the Tigers in 2018.
Competition for spots within the reigning premiers’ line-up will be hot – especially in the small-forward department.
Castagna played all 25 of Richmond’s games in season 2017 and kicked 26 goals.
He was an important member of the premiership team through his goalkicking ability, pace, and the defensive pressure he applied to opposing defenders.
But he fully realises the importance of working hard to stay ahead of the pack of talented, young Tiger small forwards such as Shai Bolton, Tyson Stengle, Jack Higgins and Liam Baker.
“We’ve picked up a few other small forwards and they’ve been training well. So it’s a good competition for spots,” Castagna said.
“Hopefully I can hold my spot and keep playing the role I played this year.
“I’m just going to keep building my game around pressure and helping those guys up the field.
“I’ll work on my scoring accuracy and goalkicking . . . Maybe kick a few more goals, a few more tackles.”
And Castagna will do it in a new guernsey number at Tigerland – No. 11 – after previously wearing No. 46.
“It was one of the available ones. Looks good on the back, double one,” he said.
“It was a bit sad to leave the 46, the premiership number, but jumped at the opportunity to go a bit lower.
“I thought about it a bit (giving up his premiership number), good spot in the locker room, but there are some good boys around 10 and 12, so it wasn’t too hard.”
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2017-12-12/castagna-up-for-the-challenge
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If George can fix his goal kicking accuracy he can kick 50 goals a year good mark to.Always involved in play that's what I like about him.
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Castagna's AFL rankings
No. 1 among rising stars for marks inside 50
No. 1 among rising stars for tackles inside 50
No. 1 among rising stars for score involvements
No. 3 among rising stars for goals
No. 4 among rising stars for inside-50s
No. 4 among rising stars for tackles
No. 5 among rising stars for goal assists
No. 5 among rising stars for contested possessions
No. 8 among rising stars for contested marks
No. 8 among rising stars for metres gained
No. 10 among rising stars for marks
No. 10 among rising stars for tackles inside 50
Richmond rankings
No. 2 for marks inside 50
Equal no. 2 for tackles inside 50
No. 4 for goals
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2018-01-16/premiership-tigers-key-numbers-jason-castagna
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:clapping
If he could kick he'd be a sensation!!!!
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Needs to make better decisions.
Hopefully that comes with experience
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Needs to make better decisions.
Hopefully that comes with experience
More belief in his ability and kicking straight would make him an upgraded Puopolo
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Drops a few marks and often fails to take quick possession of the loose ball. Fixes these two areas and he will become an even more effective attacking weapon.
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Castagna he has a lot of rough edges skill-wise so he needs to keep his intensity rates at 100% or his game will fall away pretty quickly.
If he could hold more marks & convert the opportunities he creates he could become a very good player but equally he may never get there either.
I'm not entirely sold yet but he's def 22 until someone else takes his place. How long that takes is really up to Jason.
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So basically he's like Edwards was for the first 8 years of his career then?
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If we can not improve on this bloke and some others like him then take it as a cert we will go backwards
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If we can not improve on this bloke and some others like him then take it as a cert we will go backwards
Plenty upside in him still young.I'm confident f he can improve his kicking on goal he can kick 40 plus goals finds the footy.Strange claw we win the flag and if we can't improve on him and others so let's hang them out to dry. :banghead.
Edit: Fixed quoting tag.
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If we can not improve on this bloke and some others like him then take it as a cert we will go backwards
Let me get this right. If we don't change Castagna or others like him for the better, after they greatly contributed to our record breaking premiership, we will go backwards? Well that makes sense. ::)
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Plenty upside in him still young.I'm confident if he can improve his kicking on goal he can kick 40 plus goals finds the footy.Strange claw we win the flag and if we can't improve on him and others so let's hang them out to dry. :banghead.
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If we can not improve on this bloke and some others like him then take it as a cert we will go backwards
We won the premiership with him if you hadn't realised...... :banghead
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If we can not improve on this bloke and some others like him then take it as a cert we will go backwards
We won the premiership with him if you hadn't realised...... :banghead
And when we inevitably don’t win the flag somewhere down the track then claw will be proven correct.
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The tool that keeps on giving.
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If we can not improve on this bloke and some others like him then take it as a cert we will go backwards
Welcome back Craw, I've missed your insight
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Richmond VFL and development coach Craig McRae provides ‘Roar Vision’ with an insight into the continued impressive development of lively, young Tiger premiership forward Jason Castagna.
His transition from defender to forward
“A couple of years ago he played in the VFL as a small defender. Then he went into the midfield and he ended up a little bit forward. But a couple of years ago he trained the whole pre-season as a forward, and he’s grabbed the opportunity.”
His main areas of focus going into this season
“His offensive stuff’s always been there . . . He can find space really well and he’s a good mark for his size. But I think he’s been more consistent with his pressure this pre-season and into the early parts of the season. I suppose when Daniel Rioli’s out someone has to step up, and I think he’s done that at this stage . . . The ability to get out and behind his opponent is also something he’s been working really hard on. And the snaps and set-shot goalkicking he’s put a lot of time into.”
His brilliant banana goal v Brisbane last Saturday
“Dan Butler kicked one the week before (against Hawthorn), and they work tirelessly on this part of their game with Jack Riewoldt. I think probably more than most in the AFL, they put time into that part of the game at the end of training. And it’s reaping rewards for both of those guys.”
His improved set-shot goalkicking routine
“He was a bit inconsistent last year trying to find what works for him. There was a couple of key elements to it, which I won’t give away, but it’s certainly (about) making that more of a habit . . . Again, he puts so much time it, and he’s getting rewarded for it.”
His pressure-packed play
“Like I said, Daniel’s out of the team, and he’s really stepped up and is probably leading the way at the moment. Certainly, it’s a big part of our game, the defensive part and our forward pressure. One thing that he does is he plays like a key (forward) at times, but with his ability to bring the ball to ground, he’s leading the way for us in that as well.”
His overall start to the year
“He’s had a great start . . . His pre-season stuff was fantastic and he’s carried that into the season.”
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2018-04-19/coaches-corner-jason-castagna
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Except Jack had a shocking banana shot at goal vs Adelaide.
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Seen him miss them from straight in front kicking a drop punt
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Seen him miss them from straight in front kicking a drop punt
I posted the stats a while ago on his accuracy from close range with the drop punt v snap. Snap had a higher success %. :shh
Trust the process, boys. Jack knows what he's doing :shh
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Seen him miss them from straight in front kicking a drop punt
I posted the stats a while ago on his accuracy from close range with the drop punt v snap. Snap had a higher success %. :shh
Trust the process, boys. Jack knows what he's doing :shh
Thanks for that and I do remember those stats.
Despite a fair few doubters early on I had full faith in Jack from the start
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As much as people (probably myself included) expected Georgie to be the amigo who loses his place, think he’s been very clearer our best small forward this season.
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As much as people (probably myself included) expected Georgie to be the amigo who loses his place, think he’s been very clearer our best small forward this season.
Yes. Has really improved. Looks quicker, and his set shot is better.
Butler on the other hand looks like he's got the premiership blues. Looks slow, can't break any tackles, struggling to find the sticks. I like him a lot but would be happy to give Bolton or Stengle a game or two...
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George has the last couple of weeks played really well and his game against Freo was really good. He is using his pace to good effect.
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Wasnt a massive believer. This year he has turned me.
He also has filled out and i am in love with his body shape. Shoulders are huge. I reckon he will become something special
Jeezzz its a good time to be a tiger!
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George has turned himself into an exciting, reliable, quality AFL player through hard work and I am thrilled to have him in our team. Last year I considered should we play him as his skills were questionable at best...well he has worked his arse off to become one of the best HF in the comp. :cheers
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His improved set-shot goalkicking routine
“He was a bit inconsistent last year trying to find what works for him. There was a couple of key elements to it, which I won’t give away, but it’s certainly (about) making that more of a habit . . . Again, he puts so much time it, and he’s getting rewarded for it.”
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2018-04-19/coaches-corner-jason-castagna
Clearly forgot his 'routine' last night :P.
(https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple/v4/10/10/fa/1010fa06-bfe9-cd35-1a10-6d15df4c538a/mza_2536831694337518338.png/643x0w.png)
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Shocking tonight.
Hope the club noticed him joking and hugging GWS players. All well and good if you win and play well. When you lose by 2 points and miss 6 shots at goal you get off the ground asap.
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Shocking tonight.
Hope the club noticed him joking and hugging GWS players. All well and good if you win and play well. When you lose by 2 points and miss 6 shots at goal you get off the ground asap.
exactly
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Let’s not forget that his kicking was off but he also dropped marks, fumbled the ball and couldn’t pick it up or dropped it when given to him. Probably his worst game skill wise even though he had countless opportunities. His pressure was way down too as was most in the team.
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Lost without Butler..... stays in by virtue of his pace & defensive pressure.... :shh
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Has some good traits but his goal kicking is abysmal.
Was last year and still the same this year.
So he hasn't improved this area.
Yep a grand final hero but we must upgrade.
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He does a lot of things better than all our smalls apart from Rioli. If Butler has the aggots of Castagna or the overhead ability, he'd be near a star. Ditto if Castagna had Butler's leg.
One of the reasons why I want Bolton at the club for years to come because he does have the attributes - just isn't ready yet. Has much to work on.
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You'll barely remember Bolton was ever on our list once Junior arrives... :shh
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:shh :shh
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Dimma backs Castagna
“We spoke to him at the end of the game. He'll probably be a little bit distraught about his zero (goals) five (behinds), but he gave himself ample opportunities to play the game and that’s what we want him to do,” Hardwick said.
“He'll go back to the drawing board, he’ll work on his process, and he'll get a better result next week.
“The pleasing thing for me is he kept lining up to take those shots on goal.
“He had a really good game tonight. The finishing wasn't there, but it'll be there next week.”
Castagna had 14 disposals, four inside-50s and 300 metres gained to go with those five shots at goal.
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2018-07-15/dimma-backs-george
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“Castagna had 14 disposals, four inside-50s and 300 metres gained to go with those five shots at goal.”
Add to that 1 dropped chest mark, 6 fumbles, 3 missed handball receives and 2 fallovers. :rollin
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“Castagna had 14 disposals, four inside-50s and 300 metres gained to go with those five shots at goal.”
Add to that 1 dropped chest mark, 6 fumbles, 3 missed handball receives and 2 fallovers. :rollin
dont forget the big smile after the game
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“Castagna had 14 disposals, four inside-50s and 300 metres gained to go with those five shots at goal.”
Add to that 1 dropped chest mark, 6 fumbles, 3 missed handball receives and 2 fallovers. :rollin
dont forget the big smile after the game
Hugging and back slapping the GWS boys. Worthy of delisting on the spot
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Not a huge fan of George, but I'll give him one thing.
He can stick a tackle with the best of them
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50th game today for George.
https://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/J/Jason_Castagna.html
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Congrats on the 50 JC.
Elite AFL level endeavour & pressure intent.
Elite VFA skills.
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Congrats on the 50 JC.
Elite AFL level endeavour & pressure intent.
Elite VFA skills.
yep, if he had some skill hed be an absolute weapon
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Congrats on the 50 JC.
Elite AFL level endeavour & pressure intent.
Elite VFA skills.
yep, if he had some skill hed be an absolute weapon
What’s the opposite of X factor? Whatever it is Castagna has it. :rollin
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Castagna factored up again while BEllis wore Max Factor.... :shh
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Back to the VFL....play in the guts and develop as a tagger.... :shh
Send his ping pong bum chum Butler back to VFL and play him on ball there as well.... :shh :shh
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Back to the VFL....play in the guts and develop as a tagger.... :shh
Send his ping pong bum chum Butler back to VFL and play him on ball there as well.... :shh :shh
Yes Georgie even made me angry yesterday.
Only thing saving him is so many injuries and he also had a limited preseason and probably deserves a little slack.
Rioli was given the same slack last year after no preseason.
Butler’s time is up and unfortunately for him he is not a midfielders hole.
Time to give Baker his spot.
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Back to the VFL....play in the guts and develop as a tagger.... :shh
Send his ping pong bum chum Butler back to VFL and play him on ball there as well.... :shh :shh
Yes Georgie even made me angry yesterday.
Only thing saving him is so many injuries and he also had a limited preseason and probably deserves a little slack.
Rioli was given the same slack last year after no preseason.
Butler’s time is up and unfortunately for him he is not a midfielders hole.
Time to give Baker his spot.
No slack after Saturday. Was absolutely horrible. I’ve defended his ball use in the past but he took butchering to a new level this week. Both he and butler should be dropped.
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Worst disposal I've ever seen in an AFL footballer....
Needs to work much harder and that should be in the magoos....
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Almost fell over when George kicked that one straight through the middle from 45 lol.
For his skill faults (missing Ellis 5m away by hand is right up there :facepalm ), Dimma won't drop him if he's getting 8 tackles per game. About 95% of our score tonight came from Swan turnovers on the back of our pressure.
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Pressure and tackling about as elite as it gets. Won’t be dropped, will be interesting who makes way for jack, there isn’t anyone obvious that comes to mind.
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A better game tonight , but needed to improve
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Worst handballing I’ve ever seen from an AFL/VFL player ever which is why he’s the most frustrating player on the field.
But he is doing an excellent job with his tackling and pressure which is why he is there and that’s more important for us.
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I agree with that ^^
It actually staggers me how sloppy his handballing is. its like he needs to go back to auskick and learn from scratch again.
But at this stage the other elements of his game, just as staggeringly, pretty much make up for his appalling disposal.
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People seriously think that was better game from him? What because he finally kicked a goal? We left about 10 goals out there and he was responsible for at least half of them..not to mention Sydney taking the ball up the other end as a result.don't care how good his tackling and pressure is , can't continue to carry a bloke who butchers so many scoring opportunities & forward entries, kills momentum and causes as many attacking passages of play to breakdown as he does...just a shockingly bad player with ball in hand.... :shh
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People seriously think that was better game from him? What because he finally kicked a goal? We left about 10 goals out there and he was responsible for at least half of them..not to mention Sydney taking the ball up the other end as a result.don't care how good his tackling and pressure is , can't continue to carry a bloke who butchers so many scoring opportunities & forward entries, kills momentum and causes as many attacking passages of play to breakdown as he does...just a shockingly bad player with ball in hand.... :shh
Thank god somebody said it. He was terrible yesterday. Skills terrible. Kills momemtum at key moments. I know he tackles and chases hard but he is for the most part a VFL standard player.
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I am no great fan of George, his footy smarts are terrible IMO.
However, he keeps getting games, so he obviously plays the role that is asked of him.
Personally, I reckon he is one of the best tacklers in our team. It is a key part of our forward game plan, and George makes them stuck better than anyone else we have. So until we get a better forward tackler, George stays in I guess.
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If he didn't tackle we'd be mentioning him in the same breath as JON.... :shh
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Lol - tackling might’ve been why we thought he was better.
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If he didn't tackle we'd be mentioning him in the same breath as JON.... :shh
Except one was a top 10 draft pick and the other was a rookie listed player
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If he didn't tackle we'd be mentioning him in the same breath as JON.... :shh
Except one was a top 10 draft pick and the other was a rookie listed player
Nobody! And I mean nobody has ever ran off the ground during interchange as quick or as perfect as JON, he was an absolute natural! Castagna has a bloody long way to go before we can even name him in the same sentence as JON. :rollin
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That bloody long way is getting bloody shorter every game....at least JON had the decency to know his limitations and stay away from the ball...:shh
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Worst disposal I've ever seen in an AFL footballer....
Needs to work much harder and that should be in the magoos....
Ever?
That’s a massive call and you’ve had a literal cavalcade of mediocrity to watch over the past 40 odd years.
I would literally take him over the vast majority of the 1988 list alone let alone the rubbish that Greg Miller drafted last decade.
But I digress.....
I have a feeling he and Butler have been overtaken by Baker and Bolton in the team.
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George will remain in the side if he's kicking 3 goals with 6 scoring involvements and 4 tackles.
The thing that annoyed me was he twice waited for the ball to arrive to him which allowed a Melbourne player to run from 10m behind and past him to spoil.
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His kicking will cost us a Grand Final one day
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People need to be as harsh on Rioli as they are on George. If he had the performance that Rioli had tonight people would be writing petitions for him to be dropped.
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Thought George did ok
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People need to be as harsh on Rioli as they are on George. If he had the performance that Rioli had tonight people would be writing petitions for him to be dropped.
Was thinking the same.
R4
Castagna: 0.0, 11 possessions, 6 tackles
Rioli: 0.2, 10 possessions, 2 tackles
R5
Castagna: 1.1, 14, 8
Rioli: 1.0, 13, 3
R6
Castagna: 3.2, 11, 4
Rioli: 0.2, 6, 5
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I think Rioli is only getting a game because of his name
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lol
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People need to be as harsh on Rioli as they are on George. If he had the performance that Rioli had tonight people would be writing petitions for him to be dropped.
You obviously don’t know the rules of this site.
Nobody is to bag, insult or even question a Rioli on this site ever.
You’ll do well to learn this.
You probably don’t know this but he had an interrupted pre-season and that’s why he is down on form..... actually was that last pre-season or the latest one?
Anyway it doesn’t really matter.
Learn the rules!
#dropgeorge.
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I think Rioli is only getting a game because of his name
Nar definitely on form...
His form this year is definitely that of a first round selection in his 4th year.
#dropgeorge
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Thought George did ok
Agree. His tackling definitely is a real strength. Kicked two and set up a goal for Jack.
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I get the impression we are tweaking our forward line a bit and some players are taking a little time to adjust. I am guessing it might have something to do with having Lynch in our forward line, and the different way he brings the ball down to ground in a marking contest. Lynch seems to predominantly bring the ball to ground in front of the pack, where as Jack seemed to be a bit more sideways or behind the pack. Rioli, and Butler for that matter, seem to be much more dangerous running onto the footy going towards goal rather than hunting across the pack.
George actually looked pretty comfortable last night. He looks much better kicking for goal across his body, so if Lynch does bring the ball down forward, I think that is George's go. His tackling, as has been mentioned, is very good, particularly front on tackling, where as Rioli is a much more a run down tackler.
Ellis for the second week in a row has snagged goals, and last night they were deeper in the forward line than I think I have seen him lurk before. McIntosh is another who seems to be consistently pressing further forward than in the last couple of seasons.
Conversely, Baker seems to be playing further up the ground.
I dunno, just some observations that might be way off the mark.
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Good coaching, their back men are too
Slow. George and others dashed into space and received the pass.
No good kicking to packs when they have the numbers
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An actual good game from Castagna as oppossed to the imaginary one last week...hopefully we won't have wait the usual 8-10 rounds until his next one .. . :shh
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Yeah he was good last night. He deserves to keep his spot on that performance. It doesn’t mean that criticism of his prior performances wasn’t warranted though.
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People need to be as harsh on Rioli as they are on George. If he had the performance that Rioli had tonight people would be writing petitions for him to be dropped.
You obviously don’t know the rules of this site.
Nobody is to bag, insult or even question a Rioli on this site ever.
You’ll do well to learn this.
You probably don’t know this but he had an interrupted pre-season and that’s why he is down on form..... actually was that last pre-season or the latest one?
Anyway it doesn’t really matter.
Learn the rules!
#dropgeorge.
Wow. That’s a tad melodramatic.
I don’t think anyone will call for George to be dropped this week. Equally, I think most will agree that Rioli had a poor game.
You are accusing people of favoriting Rioli, but you seem to be the one playing favorites. You also take any opportunity to pot Brandon. I think you need to relax on accusing others of bias.
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If Castagna played like this most weeks I wouldn’t complaint about him so much. I like how he made the most of the opportunities he had and lowers his eyes to find the big fellas.
I won’t question his pressure so far this year has been very good.
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Im sorry but I dont rate him. He is the luckiest Richmond Premiership Player since Freame in 1980.
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:shh
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shocking set kick for goal, but he wins his own pill, wear the hits while doing it and must give the opposition the poos with good pressure because he does bring it. Still on the plus side for mine, but yeah wish he would tidy up some of the messy stuff, he isn't alone though, comes with the manic play style though.
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People need to be as harsh on Rioli as they are on George. If he had the performance that Rioli had tonight people would be writing petitions for him to be dropped.
You obviously don’t know the rules of this site.
Nobody is to bag, insult or even question a Rioli on this site ever.
You’ll do well to learn this.
You probably don’t know this but he had an interrupted pre-season and that’s why he is down on form..... actually was that last pre-season or the latest one?
Anyway it doesn’t really matter.
Learn the rules!
#dropgeorge.
Wow. That’s a tad melodramatic.
I don’t think anyone will call for George to be dropped this week. Equally, I think most will agree that Rioli had a poor game.
You are accusing people of favoriting Rioli, but you seem to be the one playing favorites. You also take any opportunity to pot Brandon. I think you need to relax on accusing others of bias.
I’m relaxed...
How am I playing favourites?
I actually like Rioli but I do think he escapes criticism from most on here and has for a couple of years now.
Even you would concede George and Rioli are judged differently??
There isn’t many in our side that are excused for poor games like Rioli.
At the end of the day it doesn’t really matter what I or anyone’s thinks of Georgie, he is a premiership player and Dimma and the coaches think he does a pretty good job.
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Rioli is a lot tidier than Castagna. I don't feel like a game can get flipped around with Rioli as much as Castagna. With Castagna it is a distinct possibility at times because it is chaos, with Rioli he is so much better with the ball.
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Yeah he was good last night. He deserves to keep his spot on that performance. It doesn’t mean that criticism of his prior performances wasn’t warranted though.
Which is similar to Bellis and his past fortnight
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Yeah he was good last night. He deserves to keep his spot on that performance. It doesn’t mean that criticism of his prior performances wasn’t warranted though.
Which is similar to Bellis and his past fortnight
Bellis has played two good games now. I'm pleased for him. Wing is his best position. Keep him there. Castagna has tidied up his disposal and is now hitting the scoreboard. Pleased for him too. If these second tier players can play well we are obviously a far more dangerous opponent than relying on the top tier guys week in and week out.
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Yeah he was good last night. He deserves to keep his spot on that performance. It doesn’t mean that criticism of his prior performances wasn’t warranted though.
Which is similar to Bellis and his past fortnight
Yep. Absolutely. Credit where it’s due.
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Yeah he was good last night. He deserves to keep his spot on that performance. It doesn’t mean that criticism of his prior performances wasn’t warranted though.
Which is similar to Bellis and his past fortnight
Yep. Absolutely. Credit where it’s due.
Yep, thought Belly was good last night.
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Yeah he was good last night. He deserves to keep his spot on that performance. It doesn’t mean that criticism of his prior performances wasn’t warranted though.
Which is similar to Bellis and his past fortnight
Yep. Absolutely. Credit where it’s due.
Yep, thought Belly was good last night.
And if he or Castagna don’t bring it each week - they’ll get dropped.
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Castagna - Improved set-shot goalkicking
“It’s something he’s worked on a lot and he’s improving it. I think with anything, the more you put in, the more chance you’ll have on game day. So he’s doing a good job with that.”
More here: https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2019-05-15/coaches-corner-jason-castagna
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Castagna - Improved set-shot goalkicking
“It’s something he’s worked on a lot and he’s improving it. I think with anything, the more you put in, the more chance you’ll have on game day. So he’s doing a good job with that.”
More here: https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2019-05-15/coaches-corner-jason-castagna
Beast!
How can you not love Georgie!
Hardworking tackling machine than can also do the flashy stuff.
You definitely get the ups and downs with him but I don’t think anyone can ever question his effort and I can cop that.
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Castagna - Improved set-shot goalkicking
“It’s something he’s worked on a lot and he’s improving it. I think with anything, the more you put in, the more chance you’ll have on game day. So he’s doing a good job with that.”
More here: https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2019-05-15/coaches-corner-jason-castagna
Beast!
How can you not love Georgie!
Hardworking tackling machine than can also do the flashy stuff.
You definitely get the ups and downs with him but I don’t think anyone can ever question his effort and I can cop that.
Was very good last week :clapping frustrating player due to his skills or lack there of during games. Gives his all each week but will continue to frustrate me.
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He has great hands for his size and his tackles stick.
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Castagna - Improved set-shot goalkicking
“It’s something he’s worked on a lot and he’s improving it. I think with anything, the more you put in, the more chance you’ll have on game day. So he’s doing a good job with that.”
More here: https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2019-05-15/coaches-corner-jason-castagna
Beast!
How can you not love Georgie!
Hardworking tackling machine than can also do the flashy stuff.
You definitely get the ups and downs with him but I don’t think anyone can ever question his effort and I can cop that.
Was very good last week :clapping frustrating player due to his skills or lack there of during games. Gives his all each week but will continue to frustrate me.
I understand your frustrations as I too get frustrated when he misses gettable goals, BUT his good far outweighs his bad. By a long way IMO considering the roll he plays.
We have some awesome kids.
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New 2 year extension just announced :cheers
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https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2019-05-23/castagna-and-balta-contract-extensions
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Indicates to me Butler and/or Bolton won't be here next year..... :shh
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Indicates to me Butler and/or Bolton won't be here next year..... :shh
Why can’t we keep Bolton? Playing seniors at the Richmond football club is pretty awesome I’m not sure why you’d want to leave.
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Indicates to me Butler and/or Bolton won't be here next year..... :shh
Why can’t we keep Bolton? Playing seniors at the Richmond football club is pretty awesome I’m not sure why you’d want to leave.
I wouldn’t get too worried. :shh
He isn’t going anywhere.
Not so sure about Butler though.
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Agree, Butler's days look numbered.
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Id rather we keep Butler and lose Castagna or Baker instead
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Id rather we keep Butler and lose Castagna or Baker instead
Baker looks to have a lot of upside IMO. His decision making is that of a new player, and once he gets that down, he'll leave the other two well behind I suspect.
George is a very good tackler. He is one of the best front on tacklers in the league I reckon. He sticks them, and it isn't something a lot of players are that good at.
I think both Baker and Castagna could also run through the midfield if we needed them to, and while not being superstars they could make a contest. I don't think Butler can do that, certainly not at the moment anyway.
Butler just doesn't look the goods compared to these two.
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It’s funny becaus3 late in 2018 it looked like we desperately needed butlers polish to match castagnas grunt. But so far in 2019 butlers been a bit of a liability. I guess with Maurice Rioli Jr looming as a likely pick up do we really need to keep all of castagna, Baker, Rioli , butler and higgins?
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In rare form goal kicking wise
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In rare form goal kicking wise
Yeah, thought that myself last night.
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Not a fan of George but he was excellent last night. Well done to him.
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Career best 5 goals for George:
https://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/2019-07-06/round-16-castagnas-bag-of-five
With five goals of his own, Jason Castagna lead the way, also contributing 18 disposals at 89 per cent, ten marks, and two tackles.
https://www.afl.com.au/match-centre/2019/16/gcfc-v-rich
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Id rather we keep Butler and lose Castagna or Baker instead
Still stand by this?
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The opposite will happen so it's all moot now... :shh
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He's actually having a pretty stellar year.
Of all the amigos of 2017 , who would of thought Jason would be first picked now .
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He's actually having a pretty stellar year.
Of all the amigos of 2017 , who would of thought Jason would be first picked now .
Big change has been his goal kicking. He actually slots them now, well most anyway. Hasn't dropped his forward pressure.
If his disposal ever got better he was always going to get ahead of the others in my opinion. Has good hands, can clunk a pack mark, runs harder than his mate Dan.
I'd rate him as just about the first picked small forward as it currently stands. Doesn't have the X factor of a Bolton/Rioli/Stack.
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From Robbo's "likes" column:
10. Jason Castagna
Finally a strong contribution to the scoreboard from the small forward. It was the first time Castagna has kicked five goals and his team-high 12 score involvements were a career best. He needed it. Heading into the match he was the lowest-rated general forward to play 10 or more games. It was only Gold Coast, but it was pleasing as the Tigers rejuvenated their premiership campaign through strong games from Castagna, Daniel Rioli, Sydney Stack, Jack Graham and Kane Lambert.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/the-tackle-mark-robinsons-likes-and-dislikes-from-round-16/news-story/8b2e3d025de62c28580bf72fa8f6b946
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From Robbo's "likes" column:
10. Jason Castagna
Finally a strong contribution to the scoreboard from the small forward. It was the first time Castagna has kicked five goals and his team-high 12 score involvements were a career best. He needed it. Heading into the match he was the lowest-rated general forward to play 10 or more games. It was only Gold Coast, but it was pleasing as the Tigers rejuvenated their premiership campaign through strong games from Castagna, Daniel Rioli, Sydney Stack, Jack Graham and Kane Lambert.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/the-tackle-mark-robinsons-likes-and-dislikes-from-round-16/news-story/8b2e3d025de62c28580bf72fa8f6b946
What a BS stat!
There is only 3 small forwards to play 10 or more games and Higgins is running around in the twos, and Rioli has been the worst of those 3 this year.
George also missed a decent amount of preseason that gets forgotten about because it’s round 17.
And with all injuries our small forwards are playing slightly different rolls to last year and 2017.
Georgie has 17 goals and on track to better his previous 2 seasons tally of 26 goals.
Higgins has 9 goals
Rioli has 11 goals
And all average about 3 tackles a game.
FO Robbo!
You probably only watch our games every third week.
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Didn’t he mean competition wide not just in our squad?
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Didn’t he mean competition wide not just in our squad?
Surely not!
That makes it even worse.
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Castagna scored the AFL website's footy version of basketball's "trible-double" - Disposals/Marks/Score involvements. It's only happened 21 times this year and he's the only Tiger to do it in 2019.
Disposals 18
Marks 10
Score inv. 12
ps. Jack Riewoldt has achieved it 7 times over his career (since 2010).
https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-07-09/stats-files-whats-the-afl-version-of-a-triple-double
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That’s a strange 3 stats to include in a triple double
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Not as strange as importing irrelevant stats and terminology from Seppo sport into our game... :facepalm
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THAT’S WEAK AS WATER
AFL players continue to find new ways of trying to miss simple goals.
Willie Rioli’s first-quarter snap saw him running away from goal before a complex dribble along the ground that somehow veered right at the last minute and avoided the goalpost.
He could have run into an open goal.
Then Jason Castagna went for the snap shot around the corner with a second-quarter shot from 20m out on the slightest of angles.
Wayne Carey let loose: “That’s weak as P (p---). It’s a cop out. You are 20m out directly in front.”
Players love all kinds of fancy set shots from different angles but Carey was right, with Castagna’s dodgy 22.19 this year clearly influencing his shot choice.
Source: Herald-Sun (https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/richmond-move-into-top-four-with-thrilling-win-over-west-coast-in-an-mcg-epic/news-story/751c819c65d06b932a771ba86c299e73)
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Yeah, he was shocking today. That first goal he kicked was pure luck too, bounced one over the top of McGovern or whoever it was from 25 out. Fumbly, poor skilled momentum killer today.
Lucky Butler has shat the bed, Baker doesn't play forward atm and Rioli isn't setting the world on fire.
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I don’t buy it. Criticise him all you want for missing the shot but who cares how he kicks it. If he is more comfortable snapping in that position then so be it. No one can convince me for 1 second that he snapped it for show pony type reasons - he’s just not that type of player.
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I agree with that. Personally I reckon he kicked it that way because he has no confidence kicking drop punts for obvious reasons. But you open yourself up to criticism for ridiculous missed shots like that. It's not a first for him
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Fumbly, poor skilled momentum killer today.
As he is most weeks... :shh
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Forgot he was playing in the first half....a lot better in the second...didn't fumble as much and seemed more composed than usual.. :shh
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Doesn't get a lot of ball, but he hurts. Absolutely a best 22 player for me. Doesn't shirk or give less than 100% ever
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Doesn't get a lot of ball, but he hurts. Absolutely a best 22 player for me. Doesn't shirk or give less than 100% ever
Yup castagna/Bolton/rioli(hopefully not injured) our best combo. If Stack makes it back I’d play him in defence.
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Georgie!
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Played well. :shh
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Jason Castagna – 7
Played an important role with his creativity in attack and forward pressure. Finished with two goals, but could have easily had three or four. Took a strong contested grab in the third quarter and converted the goal when the Tigers were on the charge.
https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-09-20/every-tiger-rated-from-the-preliminary-final
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Jason Castagna – 6
What could have been for Castagna! In general play he was electric, creating havoc with his run-and-carry around half-forward, but when the goals confronted him, things went awry. The nippy forward kicked 0.5 and missed everything with another shot early in the third quarter. Threatened to be one of the game's best players but ultimately let himself down with his finishing.
https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-09-28/player-ratings-richmond
JASON CASTAGNA 6
Borrowed Travis Cloke’s radar and Adam Saad’s legspeed. Couldn’t hit the side of a barn but fired plenty of shots. One of the better goalless Grand Finals by a forward.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/richmond/afl-grand-final-player-ratings-dustin-martin-and-bachar-houli-shine-toby-green-phil-davis-flop/news-story/3b13f40fe020027c0e71ae275f356ff2
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Winning hides everything
It could have been a day out for Richmond forward Jason Castagna, but the speedster left his goalkicking radar at home. He had plenty of opportunities to hit the scoreboard but managed just 0.5 for the afternoon. It might cost him a couple of fines on Mad Monday when he and his teammates gather to watch a replay of the game, but it won't make his beers taste any worse. He finished with 20 disposals and 10 score involvements, to go with his second premiership.
https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-09-28/10-things-we-learned-gws-decision-backfires-tiger-courage-rewarded
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Thought he played a very selfish game yesterday, looking for self glory and not playing the team game.
Had better options for three of his shots that he complway ignored, as the headline says, winning hides everything.
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Super game by George didn't hit the scoreboard,but he was so involved.
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Could have been 130 point win if George had the kicking boots on.
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Churlish to say after a flag win, but poor kicking is poor footy pure and simple.
Any other opponent would have made us pay for George’s poor kicking.
I realise that other than his kicking for goal, he was actually good. Gained over 500m for the team.
But the point in my first sentence underlined what he did yesterday.
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Absolutely sliced em up yesterday.
Should have finished 2 or 3, but we know he’s not a great finisher.
He is exhilarating when he finds space, if he could finish he’d be a top 5 small forward in the league.
I love Georgie, and we possibly don’t win it this year without him.
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2/10
Selfish. Wasteful. Suburban standard
Who is lucky because hes got terrific players
Covering up for him. His 0.5 yesterday was a disgrace.
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Absolutely sliced em up yesterday.
Should have finished 2 or 3, but we know he’s not a great finisher.
He is exhilarating when he finds space, if he could finish he’d be a top 5 small forward in the league.
I love Georgie, and we possibly don’t win it this year without him.
Lol
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2/10
Selfish. Wasteful. Suburban standard
Who is lucky because hes got terrific players
Covering up for him. His 0.5 yesterday was a disgrace.
Awful take. At no point was he selfish. :thumbsdown
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He wasted opportunity after opportunity.
Should of given the ball off at different times and didnt so ge could run and have a shot for goal.
All of whom he missed.
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2/10
Selfish. Wasteful. Suburban standard
Who is lucky because hes got terrific players
Covering up for him. His 0.5 yesterday was a disgrace.
Awful take. At no point was he selfish. :thumbsdown
You clearly watched the game on TV.
Not once, twice but three times he had options to pass including Lynch standing 30 meters by himself in the square but he went for self Glory instead of going to the team thing. Was the most selfish player on the ground by a country mile yesterday.
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AFL level speed, effort & spread.
AFLW level kicking skills.
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He wins his own pill, runs like a friggen hunting dog all day and has a pretty good turn of toe to burn off chasers, marks and intercept marks often but stuffs it all up when he kicks like he is struck by a sudden bout of palsy but if he was accurate he would be KB II.
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2/10
Selfish. Wasteful. Suburban standard
Who is lucky because hes got terrific players
Covering up for him. His 0.5 yesterday was a disgrace.
Awful take. At no point was he selfish. :thumbsdown
You clearly watched the game on TV.
Not once, twice but three times he had options to pass including Lynch standing 30 meters by himself in the square but he went for self Glory instead of going to the team thing. Was the most selfish player on the ground by a country mile yesterday.
I saw the game on TV as I had dialysis yesterday. On TV I saw everything you saw including all the times he should have passed and didnt. Just a shithaus performance. Hope he gets traded so we dont have to look at him do things like that playing for Richmond again.
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You blokes are TERRIBLE
We just won our 2nd stuffing premiership in 3 years by close to 100 points...and all you do is come on here and pot players.
Get a life and go root for an athlete who plays an individual sport
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2/10
Selfish. Wasteful. Suburban standard
Who is lucky because hes got terrific players
Covering up for him. His 0.5 yesterday was a disgrace.
Awful take. At no point was he selfish. :thumbsdown
You clearly watched the game on TV.
Not once, twice but three times he had options to pass including Lynch standing 30 meters by himself in the square but he went for self Glory instead of going to the team thing. Was the most selfish player on the ground by a country mile yesterday.
I saw the game on TV as I had dialysis yesterday. On TV I saw everything you saw including all the times he should have passed and didnt. Just a shithaus performance. Hope he gets traded so we dont have to look at him do things like that playing for Richmond again.
Calm down Champ, my post was referring to Dougy bro!
I gathered you saw what I saw by your original reply :thumbsup
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Could have had a bag but his contribution was still great. Has developed nicely this year, coming higher up the ground to get to the contest and getting more of the ball as a result. Has been our best small forward this year and not many would have predicted that 2 years ago.
And to be fair he still managed to score 20% of GWS’s total score :snidegrin
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2/10
Selfish. Wasteful. Suburban standard
Who is lucky because hes got terrific players
Covering up for him. His 0.5 yesterday was a disgrace.
Ramps you are a complete wanker.
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We all know your a castagna fan and thats ok. Your entitled to your opinion. I just didnt rate his petformance yesterday and I stand by what I wrote.
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Who was it that argued he was a good kick 😂
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He could of won the norm smith had he kicked straight.
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Yes the misses were terrible
Yes he chose the wrong option a few times
But He was good yesterday, bloody good
And I'll forgive the misses because last week when we needed clutch goals, when we were down Geogie delivered.
Shouldn't forget that
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He could of won the norm smith had he kicked straight.
I agree 100%
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We all know your a castagna fan and thats ok. Your entitled to your opinion. I just didnt rate his petformance yesterday and I stand by what I wrote.
I am a George fan and yes he did kick poohouse at goal yesterday but he was a massive contributor on the day and if you cannot see that I feel sorry for you... actually no I don’t.
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if Daniel Rioli had wasted all the opportunities George had you would have been on here blasting him for his performance.
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if Daniel Rioli had wasted all the opportunities George had you would have been on here blasting him for his performance.
BS!..... Rioli doesn’t get that many touches in 3 games :lol
We just won a Grand Final mate, get your hand off it and just be happy.
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rioli was excellent yesterday. kicked a huge goal just on quarter time some brilliant handballs to team mates. 10 rioli disposals worth about 30 for others lol.
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0.5 is the second most inaccurate goal kicking in AFL/VFL history. Well done Jason.
The guy who holds the record kicked 0.7
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0.5 is the second most inaccurate goal kicking in AFL/VFL history. Well done Jason.
The guy who holds the record kicked 0.7
Arnold Briedis did that with North Melbourne in the drawn 1977 GF. Almost cost them the flag. He made up for it in the replay kicking 5 goals.
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2/10
Selfish. Wasteful. Suburban standard
Who is lucky because hes got terrific players
Covering up for him. His 0.5 yesterday was a disgrace.
Awful take. At no point was he selfish. :thumbsdown
You clearly watched the game on TV.
Not once, twice but three times he had options to pass including Lynch standing 30 meters by himself in the square but he went for self Glory instead of going to the team thing. Was the most selfish player on the ground by a country mile yesterday.
I ended up getting seats, on level 4 so I had a great view of the game.
The only one he should have passed was in the last quarter, when the game was dead and he had Lynch on.
All the others he had every right to shoot.
You just lied about “2 or 3 times”
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Having the 'right to shoot' at goal doesnt mean you dont pass off the footy. As they say in the classics Bad Kicking is Bad Football.
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His attack at the football was outstanding. I would have loved it if he had kicked straight but he was a constant danger for GWS.
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George was good,IMO. He showed everyone just how cooked GWS were with his pace.
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Having the 'right to shoot' at goal doesnt mean you dont pass off the footy. As they say in the classics Bad Kicking is Bad Football.
I just put your comments down to a lack of class.
Pretty distasteful comments straight after a grand final win about a 2 time Premiership player.
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2/10
Selfish. Wasteful. Suburban standard
Who is lucky because hes got terrific players
Covering up for him. His 0.5 yesterday was a disgrace.
Awful take. At no point was he selfish. :thumbsdown
You clearly watched the game on TV.
Not once, twice but three times he had options to pass including Lynch standing 30 meters by himself in the square but he went for self Glory instead of going to the team thing. Was the most selfish player on the ground by a country mile yesterday.
I ended up getting seats, on level 4 so I had a great view of the game.
The only one he should have passed was in the last quarter, when the game was dead and he had Lynch on.
All the others he had every right to shoot.
You just lied about “2 or 3 times”
100% agree on that last one he could have hit up Lynch, the rest like you say were Georgie’s to have a shot.
Bad kicking is one thing but selfish is just disrespectful imo.
And I’m not just saying that because it George.
Glad you get a seat. 👍
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Jack didn't cop as much internal heat last week despite being considerably worst in the prelim than George was in the GF.
This guy is something else. Burns blokes off like they're standing still.
If he'd jagged 2 and passed that one off to Lynch he would have been comfortably in our best.
He's our best forward IMO, especially given his lack of natural talent. All heart and effort.
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Of course Jack was considerably worse in the prelim than George was in the GF....because George wasn't bad at all. He'd be gutted not have joined the party at some point with a snag but still.
Yes, he has perhaps some of the worst finishing going around but the rest of his game can be fantastic. Every so often he'll get the fumbles but a lot of the time he's a super quick, strong in the air, a manic pressurer (that even a word?) + hard nut who contributes in many ways. Have always said if you merged Butler & Castagna, you get a gun. I wish he had Dan's leg but you get what you get, we've still got a pretty good player.
Get someone in to do some work with him on his goal kicking. Schulzy lives in Melbourne....:shh Kid could easily kick 40+ per year with a reliable technique
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I think I just take serious objection to the line being toted that he's selfish.
Its "Grimes is soft"-esque.
Couldn't imagine a guy who's more team orientated.
He's like a young colt that can't quite truly harness his powers to the full extent. But man did he slice em up on Saturday.
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He is still young too
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If George is to settled he thinks to much and misses.
If he's going flat out or at extreme pace, his mind can't keep up with his body and he misses.
If he's moving not to fast, not to slow and his mind stays with him he will kick them.
In the GF, his mind couldn't stay with his body, this effected his goal kicking but made him outstanding in other areas.
I might nick name him Goldilocks because he needs to be moving, not to slow, not to fast, but just right to be an effective goal kicker.
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If George is to settled he thinks to much and misses.
If he's going flat out or at extreme pace, his mind can't keep up with his body and he misses.
If he's moving not to fast, not to slow and his mind stays with him he will kick them.
In the GF, his mind couldn't stay with his body, this effected his goal kicking but made him outstanding in other areas.
I might nick name him Goldilocks because he needs to be moving, not to slow, not to fast, but just right to be an effective goal kicker.
Great assessment of his game.
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Agreed, mind can't keep up.
But FMD he has pace to burn this kid. Has left Butler behind, and IMO is less talented than Rioli but puts in significantly more effort.
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Former Stawell gift runner so you always knew he had pace to burn.....
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Richmond's 4th best forward: Jason Castagna
Season returns of 26, 26 and 27 highlights Castagna’s consistency, even if he mixes his best with his worst from minute to minute. Capable of both the incredible and the incompetent, he always puts himself in the picture with relentless forward line pressure. He is building a very nice CV and if he can straighten up in front of goal, can make himself even more dangerous.
https://www.sen.com.au/news/2020/01/24/who-are-you-clubs-six-most-dangerous-forwards/
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Jason Castagna has ranked in the top 30 [for tackles] for three straight years.
https://www.afl.com.au/news/368952/why-the-lions-can-emulate-the-tigers-historic-flag-win
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Jason Castagna has ranked in the top 30 [for tackles] for three straight years.
https://www.afl.com.au/news/368952/why-the-lions-can-emulate-the-tigers-historic-flag-win
Top 30 doesn't sound good to me.
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Jason Castagna has ranked in the top 30 [for tackles] for three straight years.
https://www.afl.com.au/news/368952/why-the-lions-can-emulate-the-tigers-historic-flag-win
Top 30 doesn't sound good to me.
More than solid for a guy who doesn’t play midfield.
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Jason Castagna has ranked in the top 30 [for tackles] for three straight years.
https://www.afl.com.au/news/368952/why-the-lions-can-emulate-the-tigers-historic-flag-win
Top 30 doesn't sound good to me.
There's what, 800 AFL listed players?
That puts him in the top 4% what more do you want? FMD hahahaha
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If George can kick 2-3 goals per game as he did on Thursday night then that would have him finishing with 40+ goals even in this shorter 17 round season. That would put him as one of the top small forwards in the AFL. Of course, that all depends on him kicking straight most weeks. On the positive, he is regularly involved in games now to have a number of shots.
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I couldn't believe he composed himself and slotted that drop punt on the run. I was saying to mates watching that he was about to have a stuff up. Hopefully he's turned the corner
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Yeah, they're the shots he usually sprays. Hopefully it's not a once off from here onwards.
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Played well. He needs to take his chances. Kicking points and OOB on the full doesnt help anybody.
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Even his best games are still far too enigmatic...takes a big mark then sprays it...evades 4 players, gets caught by a 5th, carves his way through traffic then runs back into it or handpasses either too hard, to nobody or straight to the oppo...breaks away from packs then inexplicably fumbles the ball...runs hard to create an option then kicks it OOBOTF or it's various combinations of these passages...kind like a young Shank but with a much lower ceiling.... :shh
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WATCH: The unique way a two-time premiership Tiger is keeping busy
* March 26, 2020 12:35pm
* Fox Sports
Richmond small forward Jason Castagna has found a unique way to keep busy during the AFL shutdown.
With football not returning until at least June, the two-time premiership Tiger took to social media to share how he was keeping busy.
Holding a stop sign on a street, the 23-year-old appears to have taken up a role on the tools, swapping the yellow and black for the hi-vis.
“Just signed a 6 month, 500k contract as a sign man,” Castagna posted on Instagram.
“Wrapped to be apart of this new team, love these boys (love heart emoji).”
(https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/79c98dca19e6a115cedb90248cd86aff)
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2020-shutdown-cancelled-richmond-jason-castagna-stop-sign-instagram-video/news-story/82945e2566e507aced51de993eec2af7
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Roar Feature: Jason Castagna
By Konrad Marshall
Richmond Media
8 May 2020
Author of Yellow & Black and Stronger & Bolder, Konrad Marshall checked in with dual premiership-winning Richmond forward Jason Castagna to reboot the 2020 version of long-form features on current Tigers.
I spoke to Jason Castagna when this long lockdown had only just begun, back before hubs and masks and mass social distancing, in that strange early era of panic-bought pasta and toilet paper hoarding. (Don’t worry folks, Castagna had enough of both). This was several weeks ago, when the word Zoom was more commonly spelled with a lower case “z” - when instead of referring to a timetabled digital meeting, it more closely aligned with the untrammelled way in which the 23-year-old forward we know as "Georgie" plays football. Zooming is what he does.
He told me at the time how saddened he was by the standing down of the vast majority of the Richmond Football Club, not just assistant coaches and footy department staff but those in administration and marketing and membership - the people with whom, at this most unified organisation, he often shares a coffee. He was unsure when they would return, when football would return - indeed if football would return at all. He was trying to make the most of holing up in his flat in Alphington, and, like most of us, he was getting by.
But this is not a pandemic story. This is a Roar Feature about a unique player, one with an enviable zig and a baffling zag - who is custom built for speed. Growing up, Castagna was that boy in the playground known by a prized five-word title: the fastest kid in school. At least he was in his primary years. Once his peers began to shoot up into their adolescent height, they became more difficult to match. “I didn’t grow a whole lot from grade two onwards. I always remember being small,” he says. “The guys with the big strides began to catch me over 100 metres.”
When he was 13 though, he found a solution, finding another gear by way of finding a running coach. “I remember him saying to me that I was at an age where you can actually get quicker. Those early teen years are an age where you can train yourself, and get faster by building muscle, but mostly by sharpening technique.”
It will surprise no one who has seen Castagna charge madly through the wide forward flanks of the Melbourne Cricket Ground that he was devoted in high school to gathering more and more velocity. “I actually picked up pro running,” he says. “It sounds impressive because of the ‘pro’ bit, but it just means there’s money involved, and handicaps.”
Castagna would enter foot races all over Victoria, and one year drove to the feet of the Grampians to compete in the junior event at the annual Stawell Gift, where he was pitted against other fast twitch teenagers, and handicapped accordingly. “I’d love to say that I started 10 metres behind everyone else and mowed them all down, but I think I was in the middle of the pack. I wasn’t quite to the level. But I competed, and came third when I was 16.”
He loved the act - warming up, striding to the line, gathering in a crouch and waiting for the gun. “It’s so good. I was almost ready to take a year off footy and just run, because it was so much fun. But it’s also pretty straightforward. It can wear thin.” Sprinting was a great expression of freedom, but it was also solitary, unlike a game of footy, or even kick to kick.”
Castagna grew up near Eltham or rather “past Research, beyond Warrandyte”, in the most excellently named suburb of Kangaroo Ground, with a general store and a primary school and tennis club, and not much more. But he had family, and a great patch. “We were on a good 14-acre block,” he says. “Land. A lot of weedy trees. Bushy. Hilly.”
He has four siblings - three brothers and a younger sister, the baby, who’s in year 10 at school. Castagna is the second eldest. The third brother is a landscaper, while the first and fourth work with their father in the family business, Castagna Steel - Fabrication, Supply, Erection - and will one day take it over. The company started with his dad’s dad, his Nonno, who came to Melbourne when he was 18. “They had a factory in Brunswick. And he worked away there. And dad had to take that over when he was 18. And he’s had it since then. Mum’s always in there, helping with all the books.”
Castagna grew up dreaming of a career in the AFL, and assumed if that didn’t work out he would turn to a trade. “I was a shocking student. I just didn’t enjoy it.” But he did enjoy art. This has been mentioned to me before. Castagna will often sit in idle moments sketching in lead pencil or charcoal, faithfully rendering the people and places he sees. “I just like the idea of it,” he says. “At the moment I’m renovating a house and trying to design what the house will look like, and I’ve drawn heaps of facades, and versions of the bathroom. Any excuse to draw, I will.”
He played school footy with Marcellin, and TAC Cup footy with the Northern Knights. He was a precocious talent as a junior, and played all over the field. He relished competition, too, loving the chance to tag and blanket top ten picks like Jarrod Pickett and Paul Ahern. For sheer entertainment, it is worth digging out his teenage highlights reel on YouTube.
Each sequence is frenetic. Completely unbottled. His moves always begin with a surge of high knees, and then fall into a full-tilt runaway rhythm, and they often end in chaos - out of bounds or bombed forward or turned over - as his speed gets him into trouble and out of trouble and back into trouble again. National Recruiting Manager Matt Clarke focused more on the dash than the finish. He saw pure energy and wondered, could it be harnessed - controlled then channelled?
He remembers meeting his recruiting staff in the office one morning, to show them a specific film edit of George from the weekend prior: “Boys,” he said, “just sit down and look at this.” It was Castanga, playing for the Knights against the Bendigo Pioneers. “It was just run, carry, bounce, handball, receive, run, carry, bounce, bounce, dodge, dodge, fumble, recover, run. He must have gone the length of the field. I just thought, if we can get him to slow down a bit, be a little more composed, this kid has it. He fits our mould.”
Run, carry, bounce, handball, receive, run, carry, bounce, bounce, dodge, dodge, fumble, recover, run.
National Recruiting Manager, Matt Clarke
He certainly did. In his draft year, Castagna ran the 20 metres in 2.99 seconds, plus a 10 minute, 28 second three-kilometre time trial, and a 15.2 beep test. He was part of an overall recruiting philosophy based not so much on speed as “running power”, in all its forms, whether straight line quickness like Connor Menadue, lightning repeat coverage like Daniel Rioli, or relentless striding pace over distance like Kamdyn McIntosh.
Coming into the 2014 draft, Castagna was told by his manager that he would probably get picked late, and if not then, definitely in the rookie draft. “I could deal with that,” he says. “I invited over probably 10 or so mates to my family’s house. We had the idea that if I get drafted, it’ll be awesome, I can celebrate with them, and if not, at least I’ve got my mates there if I’m flat for not getting picked up. I was definitely flat … but I had a ripper night with my mates - a wake for not getting drafted.”
The next day they all left for Schoolies Week in Queensland, and he stayed home, because the rookie draft was almost a week away. “That was a grim time for me. I watched the rookie draft on the computer, with mum. Refreshing the screen, again, again, again. Pick 29. It was just me and mum, and it was a massive relief, and a great moment to share with her.”
Richmond rate their players in their internal database on various skills - from marking and kicking to competitiveness and coachability - ranking them on each category from dark brown (bad) to dark green (good). Castagna is dark green for speed, repeat speed, run and carry, and, most of all, agility. “Other clubs have said this to me: ‘You’ve got the most agile player in the AFL’,” says Clarke. “His lateral movement is astonishing. He has a goose step like David Campese.”
Castagna says this is the part of the game he enjoys most. It’s not about opening the throttle and hurtling in one direction like a drag racer - he loves the wrong foot slides and right angle jags his opponents won’t expect. “I find it fun trying to weave. Using a sidestep to give me a bit more edge, make me look faster, give me more separation.”
Within minutes the welfare officer at the club contacted him: Pack your stuff for camp, you’ve gotta come up today, we’re in Townsville. He was on a plane that afternoon, with fellow rookie draft selections - now premiership players - Jayden Short (pick 11) and Kane Lambert (pick 46). They got to the camp around 10pm, and were straight into training the next morning at sunrise. Castagna is not exaggerating when he says that camp was the hardest thing he has ever experienced.
“Physically, mentally,” he says, sighing. “No joke, I remember seriously reassessing if I wanted to be a footballer, because it was so hard. I thought ‘If this is what it takes to play AFL, I don’t know if I want to do it’. Hill rides, rowing, running - I was so, so far behind the other boys, so far off it. But now it makes sense - the boys still speak about it now as the toughest camp ever. That was - conveniently,” he laughs, “my first few days at the club.”
He made fast friends with Dan Butler, who had been taken in that draft. Butler had moved down to Melbourne from Ballarat, and was always looking for something to do. “He had this table tennis table and we would play flat out. That’s how we bonded and became good mates. We ended up moving in together at the end of 2016, in this dingy old place in Kew.”
They lived together until midway through 2019. Butler was headed to St Kilda in the post season. It was hard watching his mate leave, but Castagna knew it could happen, given Butler wasn’t being selected at senior level last year, and his contract talks with Richmond weren’t moving forward either. “He was getting a bit anxious and thought he might have to move on. But he got to a point that year where he knew he was going to move on. It did suck, but he found a good spot.”
I want to pan back now, to the off-season between 2016 and 2017, and what Castagna saw change the most. “The biggest difference was Dimma. He just went from being this guy who, when something didn’t go right, asked ‘What can we do from here?’ - rather than spraying us for the bad stuff. It’s a growth mindset now.”
Castagna became a crucial cog, of course, in that famous flag forward line, with just one tall - Jack Riewoldt - plus a mid-sized target in Josh Caddy, a defensive wrecking ball in Jacob Townsend, and three small and incredibly fast forwards in Castagna, Butler, and Daniel Rioli. He was part of the “mosquito fleet” in the “accidental forward line”, and his 2017 season was actually more immense than many realise: he was the number one player at the club for score involvements that year.
“I feel pretty lucky to be a part of that. Both me and Buts hadn’t played much AFL at all. He hadn’t played a game, and I’d played five. We didn’t think it would be possible for us both to play as well as Daniel, but Dimma wanted this emphasis on pressure. And so he gave us a crack, and it seemed to work.”
His role is naturally pressure, and running to consume space - to cut off exits. But it’s also to present as a target. After Jack Riewoldt and Tom Lynch, Castagna is the most targeted Tiger inside 50, because he runs up and down the lead lanes, surging and cutting, presenting himself as an option. Then he marks and has to convert, and yes, Richmond fans, he does work incredibly hard on his goal kicking. All players choose their own “extras” to do once their regular training session is done, whether weights or running or footwork. Castagna takes set shots on goal.
With that in mind, let’s fast forward to his remarkable performance in the 2019 Grand Final. Throughout the year, Castagna had averaged a solid 14 disposals, but importantly 4 marks, 3 tackles, a goal a game, and 263 metres gained per match, which is impressive for a small forward. In the 2019 finals series, however, that average ratcheted up to 400 metres gained, a number put in the shade by his phenomenal premiership performance: in which he gathered 20 touches for 586 metres gained. His run and carry and chaos was everything Clarke remembered from that teenage edit. Had he been a little straighter, a Norm Smith Medal was not unlikely. And yet, it does feel, all these many months later, that Castagna will be remembered for his radar - or rather lack of a radar - when shooting for goal that day.
“Honestly, I’m pretty ok with it,” he says, laughing. “If we’d lost, it would have been a different story. But I joke to my mates that no one will remember the guy who kicked 3 goals 1, but everyone remembers the guy who kicked five points and one out on the full. And I was pretty happy with how I played.”
And he should be happy. His ability to stream forward and cut through the seams of packs, to zip this way and that, around opponents and through the field, was a feature of the day as much as a Marlion Pickett spin or a Jack Riewlodt bomb. He was deeply involved in that match. “Usually in games you’re pretty flat when you miss goals, but I really just felt like I was in the game, and then you win, and you get to celebrate. With the Grand Final, it’s the last game, so you have everything to lose but also nothing to lose. There’s no next week, you’re not getting dropped - so you play to your strengths. And that made me feel like I could take on the game.”
I ask him what’s changed at the club in 2020. What are the new themes? I’ve been told there is renewed focus on maintaining that all important and precarious balance between selflessness and ego - between sacrificing for the team and expressing yourself with flair.
“The main themes we have at the club are in place - playing to strengths, celebrating, being connected and loving one another’s company - and those will stick around. We fine tune a few things every year but the non-negotiable - the thing we’re always reminded about - is our team defence. Be creative and do what you’re good at, but your intent to defend is a must. It doesn’t take any skill - just commitment.”
So what can fans expect when the season resumes? Castagna’s answer, taken the wrong way, could sound like a boast, but to me it sounds more like a promise, or a pact. The Tiger Army, he says, should expect to see what they’ve become accustomed to seeing these past few years.
“Defense that’s manic, and attack that’s at times chaotic. Blokes doing what they do best, and having the courage to do that, like Stacky taking a speccy over Toby Greene,” he says, recalling a pre-season game highlight that now seems an era ago. “For myself, I’ll be trying to use my speed. I’ll go for my marks, go for my goals, and probably kick a lot of points. But probably be fun to watch, too.”
https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/689724/roar-feature-jason-castagna
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A good read. I hope he learns how to straighten up and kick a drop punt.
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An excellent read but yes please for the love of god kick straight!!!! He would be better than Breust if he could put it through the sticks consistently
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Pocket profile: 11. Jason Castagna
AFL Record
Q. Toughest individual opponent?
A. Myself.
Pg 56 of the latest AFL Record: https://issuu.com/lifestyle1-media/docs/afl_record_-_week_9/1?ff
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George is the 7th most accurate kick for goal in the AFL this year. He's going at 70%.
Player Club Games Goals Behinds Shots ShotAccuracy%
1. Josh Bruce W.Bulldogs 5 8 2 10 80
2. Jake Stringer Essendon 4 10 3 13 75
3. Jeremy Cameron GWS 5 9 3 12 75
4. Jeremy Finlayson GWS 5 9 3 12 75
5. Toby Greene GWS 4 8 3 11 72.7
6. Brody Mihocek Collingwood 5 8 3 11 72.7
7. Jason Castagna Richmond 5 7 3 10 70
nb. minimum of 10 shots to qualify.
https://www.zerohanger.com/the-afls-top-10-most-accurate-and-inaccurate-goalkickers-so-far-this-season-42671/
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George is the 7th most accurate kick for goal in the AFL this year. He's going at 70%.
Player Club Games Goals Behinds Shots ShotAccuracy%
1. Josh Bruce W.Bulldogs 5 8 2 10 80
2. Jake Stringer Essendon 4 10 3 13 75
3. Jeremy Cameron GWS 5 9 3 12 75
4. Jeremy Finlayson GWS 5 9 3 12 75
5. Toby Greene GWS 4 8 3 11 72.7
6. Brody Mihocek Collingwood 5 8 3 11 72.7
7. Jason Castagna Richmond 5 7 3 10 70
nb. minimum of 10 shots to qualify.
https://www.zerohanger.com/the-afls-top-10-most-accurate-and-inaccurate-goalkickers-so-far-this-season-42671/
:gobdrop :gobdrop
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I think his key to success is he no longer aims at the goal, very smart.
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That can't be right - does it take into account kicks that have fallen short or gone OOTF ? I seem to remember a few that were sprayed right. Could be wrong though.
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If those stats are true this competition is stuffed. Castagna is a horrible kick for goal.
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George is 24 today :birthday.
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George has a "Kick Str" temp. tatt on his leg :snidegrin.
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George is 24 today :birthday.
Playing like he's had a big one... :shh
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George is 24 today :birthday.
Playing like he's had a big one... :shh
Does he realise he is getting paid to play this game?
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We should trade this guy out and get something at the end of the year.
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Who'd want him? Serously.... :shh
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Should have kept Butler and got rid of this dud
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Should have kept Butler and got rid of this dud
I was just thinking the same thing.
Castagna has absolutely no footy nous at all.
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I think butler kept him more accountable. They were kinda two halves of the complete small forward. Butler I think made better decisions and was a better kick while castagna is the better over head mark and lightning quick over 20m. It’s kinda ridiculous we had all these small forwards and spoilt for choice to no small forward currently being able to make an impact.
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Should have kept Butler and got rid of this dud
I was just thinking the same thing.
Castagna has absolutely no footy nous at all.
Bet you weren’t saying that grand final day last year
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Yeah best 0.5 ever.... :clapping
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Revisionist theory at its finest. Butler was very very poor after the 17 grand final win.
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Agree - should've traded both of them.... :shh
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Castagna is a good footballer. Just out of touch like lots of them.
Jack was worst imo.
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Had George for first goal yesterday paying heaps, he take a mark 40 metres out and passes it!! Thanks very much.
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Should have kept Butler and got rid of this dud
I was just thinking the same thing.
Castagna has absolutely no footy nous at all.
Bet you weren’t saying that grand final day last year
I was. Kicking 0.5 was disgraceful. Bad kicking is bad football but most of our supporters were salivating ovet what they considered was a great george performance
0.5 lol. How many out of bounds? How many turnovers. He was ordinary on grand final day.
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Is in career worst form along with Riewoldt and Rioli. No wonder our forward line can’t kick any goals.
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Must improve: Jason Castagna
Andrew Slevison
SEN
13 August 2020
It was a performance of almost zero impact from Castagna. Usually quite bright and bubbly around the ball, he was nowhere to be seen on Saturday. He had just one possession until three-quarter time before he moved up the ground late to finish with five touches. Castagna looked a bit sore throughout so perhaps the condensed fixture has caught up with him and a little freshen up might be in order.
https://www.sen.com.au/news/2020/08/13/the-players-who-stood-out-and-those-who-must-improve-from-round-11/
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Like Rioli a shadow of his former self unfortunately he still can’t kick and he still makes terrible decisions. He will be known as the guy that should’ve kicked 5 or more in the final could’ve been norm smith medalist but instead he kicked 0.5 and two out on the full. :rollin
Sums up his career so far.
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Like Rioli a shadow of his former self unfortunately he still can’t kick and he still makes terrible decisions. He will be known as the guy that should’ve kicked 5 or more in the final could’ve been norm smith medalist but instead he kicked 0.5 and two out on the full. :rollin
Sums up his career so far.
He had his worst game in 3 years last week and an average one the week before that, but before that he has been our best small forward.
Averaging a goal a game this season in shorter games and his career average is a goal a game.
Also a really hard position to be consistent at, just ask a far more naturally talented D. Rioli.
Like our coaches do, maybe concentrate on what he does well and not what he does wrong.
At the very least he will go down as a 2 time Premiership Tiger player- not a bad career even if he retired today.... and yet he is only 24 and played 80 odd games.
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He’s no Butler. :rollin
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https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_player_compare?playerStatus1=A&tid1=15&pid1=4175&fid1=C&playerStatus2=A&tid2=15&pid2=4123&fid2=C&type=T
Not much in it if you align the careers so far.
As crap as Rioli is playing now i would say he has far more upside than Castagna that’s not to denigrate what he has achieved so far in his career.
I like what Castagna has achieved but he also frustrates me a lot during games and now I feel that from Rioli also especially late last year and all of this year.
If I were to put my house on one then it would be Rioli.
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When people judge a players purely on marks, kicks and goals, I think they show a lack of “feel” for the game of AFL.
George was a rookie, if you had of said he would be a 2 time premiership player and our most consistent small forward in the past 3.5 years you would take it... even with his deficiencies?
The other thing people miss in all this is if George was a better kick for goal and better decision maker, he wouldn’t be a $200k a year player, he would be a $400k a year player.
And what that goes is pushes others out and all of a sudden, we are weaker in another areas.
The salary cap doesn’t allow you to have 22 Dusty Martins unfortunately.
I also think George’s roll has changed slightly this year, as he has played a lot further up the ground, even been in our backline some of the time.
Do you think D. Rioli as a first round draft pick, probably on twice as much money as George, better value for money and draft selection?
If you took away his 2 premierships, should Daniel be considered a flop of a first round draft pick, considering he is in his 5th year and keeps getting dropped and realistically shouldn’t be playing on current form?
I know who I think is better value for money on both fronts.
And lastly, Dan Butler is just an average AFL footballer and time will show this IMO.
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https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_player_compare?playerStatus1=A&tid1=15&pid1=4175&fid1=C&playerStatus2=A&tid2=15&pid2=4123&fid2=C&type=T
Not much in it if you align the careers so far.
As crap as Rioli is playing now i would say he has far more upside than Castagna that’s not to denigrate what he has achieved so far in his career.
I like what Castagna has achieved but he also frustrates me a lot during games and now I feel that from Rioli also especially late last year and all of this year.
If I were to put my house on one then it would be Rioli.
That’s pretty informative but surely you can concede George wins that comparison- not by a long way but by a decent amount.
Does what they are paid and what you would have expected from them from their draft selection come into it for you?
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https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_player_compare?playerStatus1=A&tid1=15&pid1=4175&fid1=C&playerStatus2=A&tid2=15&pid2=4123&fid2=C&type=T
Not much in it if you align the careers so far.
As crap as Rioli is playing now i would say he has far more upside than Castagna that’s not to denigrate what he has achieved so far in his career.
I like what Castagna has achieved but he also frustrates me a lot during games and now I feel that from Rioli also especially late last year and all of this year.
If I were to put my house on one then it would be Rioli.
That’s pretty informative but surely you can concede George wins that comparison- not by a long way but by a decent amount.
Does what they are paid and what you would have expected from them from their draft selection come into it for you?
Like I said Castagna has done well for himself considering where he has come from and I did not want to denigrate all he has achieved with limited ability.
I also said Rioli has more upside due to his raw natural talent and frustrates me a lot because of this.
I’m not biased either way because they both frustrate me equally but for completely different reasons.
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Like Rioli a shadow of his former self unfortunately he still can’t kick and he still makes terrible decisions. He will be known as the guy that should’ve kicked 5 or more in the final could’ve been norm smith medalist but instead he kicked 0.5 and two out on the full. :rollin
Sums up his career so far.
I would take being a 2 time premiership player :shh
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According to rumours Ive heard Carlton and St Kilda have interest in Castagna, hopefully they can offer him a decent amount to leave so we can get something in return.
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According to rumours Ive heard Carlton and St Kilda have interest in Castagna, hopefully they can offer him a decent amount to leave so we can get something in return.
Who replaces him?
I would want a very high pick given Papleys alleged price
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According to rumours Ive heard Carlton and St Kilda have interest in Castagna, hopefully they can offer him a decent amount to leave so we can get something in return.
Somewhat intrigued. Would definitely be open for further discussions but would need to be a good player coming back or decent draft pick. Although he butchers the ball by hand and foot often, he is a large part of our strong system and culture. Would listen but think he stays.
We will lose some players this year as some will be offered more $$ to move. Our strategy has always allowed those who we can live without move freely to a new home. We keep the important ones :shh
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The poor form of our small forwards in Castagna, Rioli, Stack and Lambert this season has been a big let down. Aarts our only small guy to show any consistent form to date. Gone from one of our strengths to a weakness real quick.
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Needs to step up been passenger like way to often this season.
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Hell probably go to Carlton or Saints and kick bags like Butler...
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According to our weights coach, pound for pound, George is easiest the strongest at the club. Can do chin-ups with 55kg tied his body.
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But can he kick or handpass?
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Headless chook who can’t kick for poo
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He needs a big second half
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Scumbaggers and Saints are welcome to the dud....can have him for a packet of twisties...chicken twisties..... :shh
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Sometimes the dumbest player in the AFL.
Tonight is a great example of how footy dumb he is.
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Shocking.
Needs to be dropped.
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Seen enough of this guy. Understand why they pick him but his negatives far out way his tackling pressure.
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Hopefully Maurice Jnr replaces this guy in the side. Castagna Missing in action tonight.
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pee him off already....sick of the sight of him... :thumbsdown
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Had 12 touches tonight I guess but needs a spell. Aarts on this ice.
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Needs a rest
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Can't remember the last time he actually looked like he was actually trying to score from broken play. Just seems to run in circles and poorly dispose of the ball. Honestly as an opposition coach I wouldn't even give him a direct opponent, he defends against himself better than anyone.
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Can't remember the last time he actually looked like he was actually trying to score from broken play. Just seems to run in circles and poorly dispose of the ball. Honestly as an opposition coach I wouldn't even give him a direct opponent, he defends against himself better than anyone.
Very true lol.
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I thought last night was a slight improvement as I didn’t see a brain fade.
He isn’t playing as much up forward and his disposal efficiency was a massive 83% :clapping
But the most important stat of the night were his pressure acts where he had 20 for the night. :thumbsup
No tackles Is extremely disappointing :thumbsdown
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Credit where credit is due, he was good last night and even seemed a little cleaner by foot.
He has many knockers on here but I don’t think anyone would disagree, he gives 100% every time he puts on a Richmond jumper.
He runs hard, puts on pressure, gives us another target forward, tackles well and kicks a goal most weeks.
Good on you Georgie Boy!
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Played well last night.
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Yep, much better.
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Hopefully keeps that standard up from now on.
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Clearly a new role and extra responsibilities.
Played well. Keep improving George
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Much better as he kept up the pressure (15 pressure acts) the entire game and laid some good tackles (3 tackles) to add to his 7 contested possessions. :clapping
His second half was very good. Hopefully we see more of this and he’s super confident leading into finals.
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Meh...he still aggrivates me.... >:(
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Following up his one good game with an absolute stinker.
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Following up his one good game with an absolute stinker.
He is not alone
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Absolute momentum killer....Cantstandya.... >:(
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Following up his one good game with an absolute stinker.
He is not alone
Nope he is not. But he is a standout on the turnover/clanger/ wrong decision ladder.
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Did well to Aarts there in fairness.
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Yeah that'll keep him in the team for the rest of the season ... :shh
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Confidence shot like Rioli.
Refuses to pull the trigger.
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Tipping MJ will replace him in the side sooner than we think..... :shh
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The mark Jason took which lead to his goal in the last quarter was pretty gutsy IMO.
Good pressure all night I thought.
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Does his job most weeks and he isn’t far away from a really big game IMO.
2020 has definitely been his quietest year since 2017 but like a few others, I think the shorter quarters haven’t helped him.
He is such a powerful athlete that works harder than most, he does extremely well at the ends of quarters when others start slowing down or hot going as hard.
Jeez, I hope it goes back to 20 minute quarters next year.
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Jason Castgana
Kicked a goal and was involved in a couple of other scores. He and Rioli made the most of limited opportunity, but not much of an imprint on. the game.
Rating: 6
Source: Foxsports (https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-finals-2020-richmond-player-ratings-vs-brisbane-lions-second-qualifying-final-reviews-stats-tigers-best-and-worst-players/news-story/156df1b76297836ac1f12af8237ff86c)
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Jason Castagna
Largely was kept quiet and booted his only goal for the night in the final quarter to ensure the Tigers would move into the third week of finals.
Rating: 4
Source: Foxsports (https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-finals-2020-richmond-player-ratings-vs-st-kilda-second-semi-final-reviews-stats-best-and-worst-players/news-story/afdeaa6b7f13cced41d21c91e03b900e)
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Jason Castagna
Had a mark he’d usually gobble up for a set shot but it was an almost night for him. Very quiet night but others stood up to cover as they often do in this side.
Rating: 4
Source: Foxsports (https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-finals-2020-richmond-player-ratings-vs-port-adelaide-first-preliminary-final-reviews-stats-best-and-worst-players/news-story/5a240d072bb6873234eb176397899eaf)
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Lift!
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I hope he lifts and kicks a snag early in GF after 0.5 last year. Been seriously below standard this year. I wonder how much of Butler success has impacted on him.
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Needs to lift big time use to stay involved in the game now goes missing.I would move him up the ground when that happens.
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Lucky to be in the side
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Won't be dropped and is required to pressure geelongs defenders.
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Won't be dropped and is required to pressure geelongs defenders.
Agree with that his pressure has been good be nice if he can.kick a couple.
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Jason Castagna – 5
Wasn't seen much at all, as is occasionally his want, but often plays a hard-to-identify running role creating space for fellow forwards. Did banish his 2019 Grand Final goal-kicking woes with a composed set shot at the start of the third quarter.
Source: AFL website (https://www.afl.com.au/news/521174/tigers-player-ratings-no-passengers-on-the-tiger-train)
Jason Castagna
Had a slow start but a floater shot on goal from a mark managed to sneak between the big sticks to reduce the margin to less than a goal during the opening five minutes of the third term.
Rating: 4
Source: Foxsports (https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-grand-final-2020-richmond-vs-geelong-dustin-martin-player-ratings-tigers-stats-best-and-worst-players-afl-finals-gabba/news-story/2c23bd9c6b85150e3f828938dc9c0006)
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Crucial goal. Not a great year but effort was always there.
Hope he bounces back in 2021. Still definitely best 22 for me.
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The luckiest player in the team. Three premierships. Can’t kick. Unreliable. Panics. Can’t handball with any accuracy. Can’t do anything on his left side. Trade value? That goal he kicked was a Kernahan special.
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He can’t kick and he doesn’t have much footy nous but what he does have is speed, evasive skills and he can mark the footy and he can harass, chase, pressure and tackle
And all those attributes count for very valuable in the way we play and the way we win.
I concede haven’t been his biggest fan along the way but he is a very important cog in the Richmond machine and he does what is required most weeks.
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Despite (or maybe it's because of) my opinion of him as a player, I nonetheless take great delight in the fact this bloke now has more premierships than Ablett...and of course three more than Dangerflog.... :shh
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His chaos is special. No matter what anyone says about him he has 3 medals and is a valuable contributor in all 3.
However the day will come when he is overtaken in the system like Butler or Higgins. Let's hope it's not too soon.
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Even in his worse season for 5 years, he was still better than Rioli who was dropped twice.
Both are 3 time, so we shouldn’t really take too much away from either of them.
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Even in his worse season for 5 years, he was still better than Rioli who was dropped twice.
Both are 3 time, so we shouldn’t really take too much away from either of them.
They both play the role Dimma asks them to play. This makes them Richmond Men who just happen to be 3 x Premiership players with every chance to add to the tally :shh
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Geelong would swap Dalhaus, Rohan or Miers for him in a heartbeat
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Castagna was ok in the grand final. Well done to him.
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Castagna was ok in the grand final. Well done to him.
Yep- his 3rd quarter was very good.
Should have ended up with 3 goals too but dropped a simple chest mark then got pushed in the back.
I know George isn’t everyone’s favourite, but the kid is a goer and gives 100% every contest/chase/tackle
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Im a criric of George but he was good and he kicked a good goal too. So he deserves plaudits for playing well.
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George is valued very highly, and yes, he can be frustrating at times, but until his negatives out weigh his positives he will be an integral part of the team.
He plays his role well and has contributed a great deal to our success, don't lose sight of that.
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https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/840021/bargain-basement-tiger-s-beginning-jason-castagna
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Three premierships, 102 goals, 100 games.
Jason Castagna will play his 100th senior match tomorrow 👏 #George100
Highlights / The best of George: https://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/894366/best-of-castagna
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Gun
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Early days this season but touchwood George's kicking for goal has been more accurate so far :pray. His 50/50 goalkicking has been the only thing stopping him from being the best small forward in the AFL.
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Keep an eye on chaotic Castagna: the Tigers personified
Peter Ryan
The Age
April 3, 2021
Jason Castagna rocked up to join his family on Christmas Day with a tattoo gun.
He estimates that by the time he left the gathering he had inked 10 tattoos to the bodies of “seven or eight” family members.
His cousin Jack, a plumber, had a measuring tape tattooed to one of his fingers so he could save some time and effort when sizing up the odd small job.
Castagna’s dad, Carlos, has a cross of some description on his back and the 24-year-old Tiger reckons he’s almost talked his mum, Kirsty, into getting one too.
This is from a man who reluctanctly got his first tattoo four years back as the result of a bet after he lost an epic table tennis battle with former housemate, premiership teammate and current Saint Dan Butler.
“I ended up getting a tattoo gun when we had that isolation period. I like drawing so my housemates and I thought it would be pretty fun while we were stuck in the house to do some tattoos,” Castagna said. “Mum wasn’t rapt at first.”
By the look of his pegs now Castagna could create a short animation movie if the line drawings on his legs were projected on to a screen when he ran.
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And run is what he does, a style that makes him look as though he’s accelerating across rocks to beat an incoming tide when he burns up the grass for Richmond to win the ball or put pressure on the opposition.
Between the ages of 14 and 17 Castagna improved that speed in running sessions with sprint coach Craig Mair, having previously built his stamina when he joined his dad for runs up the steep hills near the family home in Kangaroo Ground.
“We would be closer to walking up it really, just lifting your legs up and getting there,” Castagna said.
With Mair he increased his pace enough to run in a junior sprint at Stawell over Easter.
“It was good fun ... he [Mair] was very helpful just for my footy in general,” Castagna said.
“I got to him at an age where you can change your speed, you can fix up your technique and gain cadence and from there I made my speed a strength of mine.“
The strength he developed during that period is part of the reason Castagna will run on to the MCG this Easter - nine years after running at Stawell - to play his 100th game, the rookie selection now a three-time premiership player.
The way he plays symbolises, to some extent, the chaotic, manic style that has helped Richmond dominate the competition for four seasons now.
But along the way he has become a better player too, more respected across the competition for the damage he can do in offence and defence. And there is also a recognition that the way he plays has also helped create the unstoppable mess.
Last Sunday against Hawthorn he kicked a set snap shot on his non-preferred foot, replicating the deeds of another triple premiership player Luke Breust, a player renowned for his silky skills.
Now, when Castagna bursts out the front of the stoppage in the expectation of the ball heading his way he disrupts the opposition, suddenly making the game all arms and legs and bouncing footballs.
This suits the Tigers, who love it when their matches become akin to a pinball machine in multiball mode.
“I do have a bit of a chaotic game style,” Castagna said.
“I crash in and cause a bit of chaos on offence and defence I guess. ‘Dimma’ (Richmond coach Damien Hardwick) always makes a gag about when I get the ball he sometimes doesn’t know what is going to happen but he encourages me to keep doing what I do.
“He supports me to play to my strengths and it has held me in pretty good stead.
“I mess up a kick here and there but if I stay in the contest I usually can make something out of it.”
That he does, pressuring the opposition and chiming in for goals when required, having averaged two scores a match in his past 94 games, his inaccuracy in the 2019 grand final, when he kicked five behinds, ruling him out of Norm Smith contention.
All that has made Castagna a popular figure inside and outside the fence at Tigerland, one person who finds that being hungry and humble comes naturally.
“I definitely have points where I pinch myself. It is pretty crazy to have had this much success so early but I am just so happy to be here and I am having so much fun,” Castagna said.
“You never know how long it can last so I am just enjoying it while it is here and make the most out of it while I can.″
He laughs at the idea he might join his siblings working at Castagna Steelworks, the family business his grandfather Vic started when he emigrated to Australia in the 1960s, one of the business’s first contracts being to provide the steel that held the old seats in the MCG outer in their place.
His dad, mum and three brothers Nick, Aaron and Jarrod all work there while his sister Hannah is still at school.
His teammate Kamdyn McIntosh learned to weld at the steelworks and occasionally Castagna will drop in to the family business to find teammates just hanging out there pottering around on something.
Castagna likes to do that too, having his house renovated and using McIntosh’s skills that make him more than just a handy footballer to build his shed.
“It’s pretty much his shed in my backyard,” Castagna said.
It’s the type of connection these Tigers have soldered since 2017, with Castagna admitting a few teammates couldn’t resist using his well-travelled tattoo gun at the Tigers’ hub on the Gold Coast to get a permanent reminder of their year.
“I’ve done a few. If you look closely you might spot a few of the boys [with them],” Castagna said.
David Astbury, Nick Vlastuin and Jack Ross are among his customers.
What can never be erased is the role Castagna has played in helping Richmond to three flags, one of 14 Tigers to play in the three, and the first rookie in AFL history to play in three inside 100 games, his shy, steely expression now as much a Castagna feature as his road-runner gait.
He’s hit 100 games. He’s got a few premierships. His legs tell a story. And he’s a Richmond man. But when it comes to the family Christmas he’s creating the same quiet mischief he always has.
“Nothing much has changed for me outside of footy,” Castagna said.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/keep-an-eye-on-chaotic-castagna-the-tigers-personified-20210401-p57fw8.html
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Castagna arguably is in career-best form across the first three rounds of the 2021 season, averaging 15.3 disposals, 6.0 marks, 3.0 inside-50s, 2.0 goals, 4.7 score involvements and 242.3 metres gained per game.
The triple Tiger premiership small forward celebrated his AFL 100-game milestone with a first-rate performance in the team’s 45-point loss.
He finished the match with 17 disposals, four inside-50s, five marks, two goals, six score involvements and 345 metres gained.
Full article: https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/898087/castagna-s-top-century-milestone
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Started the season well but i reckon he is escaping the microscope especially with the abysmal form of the other two sml fwds.
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Firstly, our small forwards are too much looking for cheapies out the back. They're doing what St Kilda runners were criticized for by David King against us the week before. When we are attacking they are playing roulette and running past the contest expecting someone else to win and feed them the ball rather than being front and square at the fall of the ball and winning the footy themselves. It's hurting us offensively because they aren't get the ball and it's hurting us defensively because it's not protecting the defensive side of the contest and it's allowing the opposition to run the ball out of our forward line too easily for counterattack goals. We effectively matched Melbourne at their strength at stoppages but gave them soft goals from rebounds out of our F50 :banghead.
Secondly, our small forwards are also meant to push up high and drag the opposition defenders with them. But on the weekend, Melbourne kept their defensive structure in place and kept defenders back. Worse still, our small forwards weren't defensively accountable so Salem was allowed to run around free. Our small forwards were in no man's land. They didn't give us greater numbers around the contest to dominate the midfield and they didn't give us numbers at the fall of the ball up forward to kick goals. We had this problem early last year too.
George like all our small forwards need to get back to doing the basics right beginning with being front and square at contests as well as chasing and putting pressure on opposition HBs to keep the ball inside F50.
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His inherent lack of skill & composure is being exposed badly this year (not unlike a few others)......still think he could be reinvented as a Libba Sr. style scragging tagger but Hardwick doesn't believe in them so it's a moot pint.... :shh
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Firstly, our small forwards are too much looking for cheapies out the back. They're doing what St Kilda runners were criticized for by David King against us the week before. When we are attacking they are playing roulette and running past the contest expecting someone else to win and feed them the ball rather than being front and square at the fall of the ball and winning the footy themselves. It's hurting us offensively because they aren't get the ball and it's hurting us defensively because it's not protecting the defensive side of the contest and it's allowing the opposition to run the ball out of our forward line too easily for counterattack goals. We effectively matched Melbourne at their strength at stoppages but gave them soft goals from rebounds out of our F50 :banghead.
Secondly, our small forwards are also meant to push up high and drag the opposition defenders with them. But on the weekend, Melbourne kept their defensive structure in place and kept defenders back. Worse still, our small forwards weren't defensively accountable so Salem was allowed to run around free. Our small forwards were in no man's land. They didn't give us greater numbers around the contest to dominate the midfield and they didn't give us numbers at the fall of the ball up forward to kick goals. We had this problem early last year too.
George like all our small forwards need to get back to doing the basics right beginning with being front and square at contests as well as chasing and putting pressure on opposition HBs to keep the ball inside F50.
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Yep been saying for a while that maniac pressure and intensity and locking the ball in our 50 has gone downhill.
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9, 9, 7 disposals and no goals from George in the past 3 weeks.
And just 10m gained all night last night which was even 5 times less than last quarter sub Naish (51m).
Poor George is horribly out of touch.
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Made 3 tackles but I would love to see a stat on the number of missed tackles. Sure he would be up near the top along with Rioli.
Castagna is bottom of our 22 and have felt this for a long time. The coaches obviously see something that I just can't.
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Needs to go back to the reserves for a while. Bring in MRJnr.
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Has to dropped.
Caddy
Maurice
CCJ
Chol
Anyone
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Horribly out of form
And although I think he should be dropped for his own benefit
Gut feeling is saying he won't be
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Had enough chances now.
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Free to a good home.... :shh
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Free to a good home.... :shh
Sorry that was a joke...no-one would take him.... :shh :shh
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Gotta go along with one of the other two. Bring in CC-J to change it up and TRY someone like Hugo fwd who does have form playing as a fwd as a junior.
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Sam Edmund said Castagna is about to recommit for a further two more years which will keep George at Punt Rd until 2023.
Go to 8:45 mark https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode?id=829819
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Sam Edmund said Castagna is about to recommit for a further two more years which will keep George at Punt Rd until 2023.
Go to 8:45 mark https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode?id=829819
I wonder if he'll miss the signature panel
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Sam Edmund said Castagna is about to recommit for a further two more years which will keep George at Punt Rd until 2023.
Go to 8:45 mark https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode?id=829819
I wonder if he'll miss the signature panel
:lol :rollin
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Sam Edmund said Castagna is about to recommit for a further two more years which will keep George at Punt Rd until 2023.
Go to 8:45 mark https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode?id=829819
I wonder if he'll miss the signature panel
Hope he does.... :shh
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Sam Edmund said Castagna is about to recommit for a further two more years which will keep George at Punt Rd until 2023.
Go to 8:45 mark https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode?id=829819
I wonder if he'll miss the signature panel
Hope he does.... :shh
Like really hope he does...... :shh :shh
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Bloke should buy a lotto ticket how he keeps his spot is truly baffling and lucky in the extreme
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Has to be rested for the love of God. Pick a 16 year old academy kid to give him a look
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Pickett and Edwards in next week. Castagna and Graham out.
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Pickett and Edwards in next week. Castagna and Graham out.
Edwards won't be an in - he's in lockdown in Melbourne
Unlikely, to be allowed into WA
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He needs to go also now
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(https://i.redd.it/oypzn8dpnso41.png)
:thumbsdown
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Had enough of this bloke.
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Pickett and Edwards in next week. Castagna and Graham out.
I agree with Castagna but
Graham? :gobdrop
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Castanga to be push forward more…….about 15 metres past the goals should do
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Pickett and Edwards in next week. Castagna and Graham out.
Graham was very good :shh
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Horribly out of form
Needs to have rest
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Times up
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Never gets dropped so never learns from adversity. Isn't that what Dimma preaches. Does not practice what he preaches with Castagna.
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I've also given up for now.
Rest time.
Play anyone else. Stack. MRJ.
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If there's a game George needs to return to form in, it's tonight. Aside from the Giants game he's been MIA. After kicking just one goal in his last six games then surely it's his last chance tonight otherwise he gets dropped.
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If there's a game George needs to return to form in, it's tonight. Aside from the Giants game he's been MIA. After kicking just one goal in his last six games then surely it's his last chance tonight otherwise he gets dropped.
Agreed- need a solid game tonight. Very lucky not to be dropped with recent poor form.
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Apparently according to other Richmond forums he is vital and we build our game around him...
To me he loses 5 plus marking contests per game. He wastes goal opportunities through lack of talent. He loses contested possession 70% of the time. His opponents don't respect him so they tripple team Jack, Lynch and Dusty. All these issues result in numerous forward 50 turnovers yet his pressure acts are elite apparently. Surely we don't pick a bloke that just runs around putting pressure on defenders exiting forward 50. That's the logic. I JUST DON'T GET IT...
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I don't see his pressure and intensity should keep him in the team has to be other aspects to his game.
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Let me just qualify that my opinion on Jason is form related. He has been a great contributor in the past but he is horribly out of form. Like every other player that has been dropped he should have been sent back to the VFL to gain some form/confidence and earn his spot. But his pressure role gives him some sort of exemption. That is the part that I don't understand or cannot justify in my head. A view on the value of his pressure role.
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He's definitely out of form in terms of kicks, marks and goals, but led all comers with 22 pressure acts last week. So at least he's having an impact.
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I understand that's what we celebrate him for but I am just not sure it's enough. I honestly hope he has a blinder tonight to stick it up me for being critical. Just want a little more from him. Last week he was a little on the terrible side.
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I think we all need to remember, no. 29 rookie draft and three time premiership player. We’ve done ok here. Out of form but it happens to plenty of players taken plenty of positions higher in the draft.
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No argument Richo but sometimes players need lessons to improve form.
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Castagna and Rioli do my head in. Rioli because he kills momentum by stopping and holding up play for no apparent reason. Castagna because he has no poise or skill and just does things seemingly without thinking at all or maybe his body acts before he thinks I don’t know.
I think it must be the speed that he brings to the team
If we drop too many speedsters we might just be too slow to stop the opposition
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No argument Richo but sometimes players need lessons to improve form.
Totally understand Cracker, it’s the hate and the put downs I don’t understand.
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Castagna and Rioli do my head in. Rioli because he kills momentum by stopping and holding up play for no apparent reason.
Yep has crept into his game the last couple of years and is frustrating as all hell
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I'm hoping MRJ and Parker can fix this problem with our small forwards.
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Thought this bloke had a ripper game.
Worked up the ground and did a huge amount of work.
12 marks to go with his 3 goals. One of the best on ground for me.
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Thought this bloke had a ripper game.
Worked up the ground and did a huge amount of work.
12 marks to go with his 3 goals. One of the best on ground for me.
Yep was great tonight
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You can have Parish's 44, I'll take Castagna's game tonight.
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Stuck it up me tonight well done.
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Was good tonight but he has several weeks to make up for. Still not best 22 for me though but if he keeps producing like tonight I will reconsider.
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Great bounce back :clapping
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His effort last night was really good. Took a good grab and his kicking for goal was good.
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That impressive number of marks (game high 12) highlighted his exemplary work-rate, running hard to get into open space and present as a leading option to teammates.
https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/954006/castagna-bounces-back
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Was at the game although was pretty immersed in alcohol by the end. Yep he kicked three but i thought he was pretty average from what i can recall.
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claw finally attends a Richmond match - gets so shytefaced he can't remember it... :shh
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:lol onya Clwaski!
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It looked like a slightly different role for him - with Rioli out of the side, playing a bit higher which suits his run and pace I reckon. 18 disposals, 12 marks, 3 goals and 8 score involvements - hopefully he's that "ordinary" more often.
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claw finally attends a Richmond match - gets so shytefaced he can't remember it... :shh
:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
Best post ever
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:lol
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Only Tiger today without a single tackle.
11 disposals (5k, 6h, 3c, 8u, 72.7% eff.)
7 marks
0 tackles
1 inside 50
139m gained
2 intercepts
5 score involvements
1 goal assist
83% time on ground
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Time in the VFL is long overdue.
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Time in the AFL should be up.... :thumbsdown
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Enough is enough
For Jason's sake as much as the team's send him back to the VFL
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I reckon he should be traded. I’ve had enough to be honest.
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claw finally attends a Richmond match - gets so shytefaced he can't remember it... :shh
Will be at the dockers game as well. mate has a corporate box for the game and i reckon it will be the same result SHYTEFACED as you so eloquently put it.
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I reckon he should be traded. I’ve had enough to be honest.
Straight swap to st Kilda for Butler. 😂😂😂😂😝
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'George' and Haley have got engaged.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CS6QY-5hi0W/
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Most maligned triple premiership player in history?
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Yeah I think he is overly maligned . I have a lot of time for Jason simply because he does things I love he chases and pressures . Certainly less this year than the past but then again he wasn’t on his pat Malone having a lesser season
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Yeah I think he is overly maligned . I have a lot of time for Jason simply because he does things I love he chases and pressures . Certainly less this year than the past but then again he wasn’t on his pat Malone having a lesser season
Indeed. Never showed a lack of heart or lack of effort in my eyes. He also seems like a decent human from afar. I could want him dropped but I couldn't hate on him.
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He’s more than ok. Had a poor year and i reckon a spell in the 2’s much earlier would have helped him a bit.
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Best point kicker I have ever seen
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I reckon he should be traded. I’ve had enough to be honest.
Straight swap to st Kilda for Butler. 😂😂😂😂😝
:clapping :rollin
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Brendon Goddard's Top 5 Pressure Forwards:
- Tom Papley
- Dan Butler
- Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti
- Kozzy Pickett
- Jason Castagna
https://twitter.com/traderadio/status/1447356316922507267
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At his best maybe. Which he hasn't been for about 2y
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Fair dinkum both he and Aarts should have been delisted. Do i hear someone say trade, no way no one is that stupid.
We can afford to do this even though we now only have the Three small fwds on the list Aarts, Castagna, M Rioli.
We have an abundance of small mids who have played the role Bolton, Edwards, Lambert Rioli, Graham and lately Baker. Then there's medium fwd Noah Cumberland and im loath to say it Parker. Also Medium mids in Martin, Caddy, Dow, and Ralphsmith.Talk about options
We should have just cut em and maybe drafted a kid like Will Pearce who kicked the most goals in the sanfl u18's this year to go with young Maurice jr.
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Highest Set Shot Accuracy Compared to Expectation – Deliberate Snap (minimum 10 attempts):
4. Jason Castagna (Richmond)
Deliberate snap set shots: 11
Expected accuracy: 60.6%
Actual accuracy: 81.8%
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-news-2022-goalkicking-stats-accuracy-snap-set-shot-attempts-rankings-tom-hawkins-interview-afl-360-champion-data-index/news-story/75f641b649434c510976e2b07e3ffc30
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We drafted Judson Clarke
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Highest Set Shot Accuracy Compared to Expectation – Deliberate Snap (minimum 10 attempts):
4. Jason Castagna (Richmond)
Deliberate snap set shots: 11
Expected accuracy: 60.6%
Actual accuracy: 81.8%
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-news-2022-goalkicking-stats-accuracy-snap-set-shot-attempts-rankings-tom-hawkins-interview-afl-360-champion-data-index/news-story/75f641b649434c510976e2b07e3ffc30
This data from the same mob that says Finlayson is an elite forward? :rollin
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I’m not sure why we didn’t make a play for Stengle in last years draft it’s not like he was unfamiliar with our club and not only that we have 8 aboriginal players in our team that could help him keep on the straight and narrow.
……and we still have Castagna. :help :rollin
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Please, Please, Please drop this guy. Surly even one of our draft picks would be better.
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Agreed, but its not going to happen. Did nothing today yet still got a shout out in the presser from Dimma. But FMD how is he holding his spot ATM? No pressure, no possessions, no goals. No good.
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Agreed, but its not going to happen. Did nothing today yet still got a shout out in the presser from Dimma. But FMD how is he holding his spot ATM? No pressure, no possessions, no goals. No good.
Think the "shout out" in the presser by Dimma actually told us why he keeps getting games.
I get people hate the term, shake their head about it but it comes back to his role in the team. He mentioned KMac too, they have their roles, they play them , he picks them
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We may have lost this game back for George's excellent triple effort at the end.
Smother, kick for goal but pushed off balance, recovered and kicked the goal.
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We may have lost this game back for George's excellent triple effort at the end.
Smother, kick for goal but pushed off balance, recovered and kicked the goal.
👍🏿
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We may have lost this game back for George's excellent triple effort at the end.
Smother, kick for goal but pushed off balance, recovered and kicked the goal.
Mentioned this in the match day thread
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We may have lost this game back for George's excellent triple effort at the end.
Smother, kick for goal but pushed off balance, recovered and kicked the goal.
We may not have been in that situation if we weren't playing one man down for most of the game.
Since when does one good act constitute a good game.
While we all get the the so called role excuse they make up for him surely the expectation is for more. If not the bar is plainly set way too low.Same goes for McIntosh unlike Ed Langdon when was the last time a team put a player on McIntosh trying to curb his influence.It has never happened. And people should not kid themselves Langdon works hard both ways as most good mids do.
I reckon its easy to deflect criticism simply by saying he performs his role while they never ever set a criteria for the role they never ever mention what they expect.Its just nonsense and it is so annoying that so many supporters just lap it up.
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Since when does one good act constitute a good game.
And where did anyone say he had a good game?
While we all get the the so called role excuse they make up for him surely the expectation is for more. If not the bar is plainly set way too low.Same goes for McIntosh unlike Ed Langdon when was the last time a team put a player on McIntosh trying to curb his influence.It has never happened. And people should not kid themselves Langdon works hard both ways as most good mids do.
I reckon its easy to deflect criticism simply by saying he performs his role while they never ever set a criteria for the role they never ever mention what they expect.Its just nonsense and it is so annoying that so many supporters just lap it up.
Just because no one has told you personally what roles EVERY player has doesn't mean there isn't one or they don't exist.
However, I do accept it very much suits your narrative to suggest that there is no criteria in place and it clearly doesn't matter what anyone says even the Coach you want accept it. Because in your world you are always right and everyone else is wrong.
I will admit that I'm in the fortunate position with the membership I hold thatcwe get regular pre-match briefings from the coaches. In those meetings it is explained what roles individuals have. I take it in and then watch if those players do what they've been instructed to do. Process then becomes simple, they do what they've been asked they've played a good game. They don't do it, then they've been very poor.
Now I get in your world it is your way or the highway and clearly the coaches have no clue but after 3 flags in 5 years I'll put my trust in the coaches and accept what they tell me.
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We may have lost this game back for George's excellent triple effort at the end.
Smother, kick for goal but pushed off balance, recovered and kicked the goal.
We may not have been in that situation if we weren't playing one man down for most of the game.
Since when does one good act constitute a good game.
While we all get the the so called role excuse they make up for him surely the expectation is for more. If not the bar is plainly set way too low.Same goes for McIntosh unlike Ed Langdon when was the last time a team put a player on McIntosh trying to curb his influence.It has never happened. And people should not kid themselves Langdon works hard both ways as most good mids do.
I reckon its easy to deflect criticism simply by saying he performs his role while they never ever set a criteria for the role they never ever mention what they expect.Its just nonsense and it is so annoying that so many supporters just lap it up.
Didn't say he had a good game.
In fact I've actually opted to drop him in the changes thread.
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As i said they make up excuses and supporters lap it up.
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Third time this season he hasn't laid a tackle. Yet they laud him for his defensive game. two other games he has laid just one tackle
He is always chasing because he can't get near the ball and when he does he butchers it.Yep lauded for chasing lmfao.
Ffs it is not rocket science his role is not hard, so find someone who is capable of playing a much more rounded role if you like someone who afl level small man skills for starters.
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Where's the Castagna thread? What a GUN!!!
HIS 2 DISPOSAL GAME WAS UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
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Bumped for crackertiger.
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Unforgivable performance.
Time to go back to the VFL mate.
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Rioli and Butler were dropped playing less worse than this. :banghead
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Laid 1 great tackle which led to grahams goal in the 4th otherwise anonymous.
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The case for the defence :outtahere
Love that Richo pointed out the unrewarded lead of Georgie. Jack’s goal doesn’t happen without it. Whenever you feel the urge to question Castagna’s place in the side, remember that stuff. He does it every game. All. Game. Long
https://twitter.com/KonradMarshall/status/1530137269490753537
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So he is the teams ‘Designated Phantom Leader’?
No one man’s him up because he’s not a damaging player. How is it possible to be everywhere the ball isn’t!
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Sorry to all the Castagna lovers out there but if he doesn't get dropped after that then he never will
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So he is the teams ‘Designated Phantom Leader’?
No one man’s him up because he’s not a damaging player. How is it possible to be everywhere the ball isn’t!
he is definitely an expert at running in the opposite direction to where the action is. If acting as a decoy and never touching the ball is his role then we may as well bring in a champion athlete who has never played the game before and they could probably play the same role even better.
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Sadly I think this is what the coach wants. They wont drop him. Hes taking games of a kid like Clarke. Its not great imho.
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End the farce what because he created a goal for Jack really I don't see this pressure and harassment or regular goals he kicks.
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Sorry to all the Castagna lovers out there but if he doesn't get dropped after that then he never will
There is only one and his name is Dimma. Not sure if he posts on here or not?
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How refreshing not having the Benny Hill music playing every week we play.
Not missed one little bit. What a waste of games where we could have been getting games into afl standard kids in his place.
Fair dinkum if they had a brain they would delist at seasons end, i say delist because no club would be crazy enough to trade for him.
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The
summer winter of George is back.
OER to go into meltdown in 1 ... 2 .... 3 .... :snidegrin
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Hes got photos on someone :lol
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There was shrinkage in those photos he had of Dimma
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We all know how bad his kicking is but has anyone ever seen him handpass to a chest of a teammate?
It either goes to the feet or too high or even nowhere near
He is so bad I’m lost for words it’s unbelievable.
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I still can’t comprehend how Jason Castagna continues to get games. I understand the notion of that he brings defensive pressure and I do think his kicking for goal has improved from the past few years. But he drifts out of games way too easily, four tackles and 14 pressure acts are okay defensive numbers, but when Maurice Rioli Jnr is doubling the number of pressure acts, Dimma can only take that so far.
Reply:
I’m surprised to read that about Castagna here, I thought you guys would know. Castagna and Rioli play different roles, Castagna plays more like a wing. In the broadcast yesterday Cripps was being praised for running and providing link up through the midfield, George does the same. Some of Castagna’s pressure acts were in the backline, I don’t think Rioli would get that far down the ground. If you want to be critical of Dimma for playing someone in that role it’s fine, don’t blame the player.
Source: The mongrel punt (https://themongrelpunt.com/afl-season-2022/2022/07/04/richmond-v-west-coast-alternate-worlds/)
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Thanks Greg, the main difference between Cripps and Castanga is that Cripps had an impact and can kick goals
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Castagna in any roll has the same downfall though. Panics, horrible decision making and even worse disposal. What’s worse is he can put himself in great positions so it really just leaves you wondering how good he could’ve been
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Our forward line looks so much better without him.
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will be in the side for the rest of the year no matter how crap he plays. Cmon people you all know its gunna be true.
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will be in the side for the rest of the year no matter how crap he plays. Cmon people you all know its gunna be true.
I rarely agree with you but on this agree 100%
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3 easy shots missed in a quarter.
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This routine he has where he turns his back to goal and then play on and go for a snap is perplexing. I know back in the day it was there to get a second head start on the opposition running into smother the kick, but with the new protected zone it’s just not necessary.
You would say if it works for him then run with it but it clearly doesn’t.
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This routine he has where he turns his back to goal and then play on and go for a snap is perplexing. I know back in the day it was there to get a second head start on the opposition running into smother the kick, but with the new protected zone it’s just not necessary.
You would say if it works for him then run with it but it clearly doesn’t.
Same with Bolton sometimes.
Should have 2-3 goals tonight.
Shame because otherwise I feel he's worked hard.
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Moronic absolutely most stupid dumbest idiot player I’ve ever seen in the history of the game.
I’d even venture to say that The Sideshow Bob Vickery was even a smarter player than this idiot.
Has no skills. Can’t kick. Can’t handpass.
Absolutely crap 💩
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stuffing leave this idiot at the airport.
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(https://i.gifer.com/1GAE.gif)
Pretty much all that’s happening in this guys head.
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This routine he has where he turns his back to goal and then play on and go for a snap is perplexing. I know back in the day it was there to get a second head start on the opposition running into smother the kick, but with the new protected zone it’s just not necessary.
You would say if it works for him then run with it but it clearly doesn’t.
I don't think it is his routine. During preseason he was working on straight line drop punts. Seems under game pressure he's returned to old bad habits that don't work :help.
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The worst of the lot today. That last missed goal will be hard to delete from my brain for the remainder of the weekend. :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead
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He's a liability pure and simple.
That last goal attempt summed him up perfectly and the club, coaching staff deserve everything they get for continuing to play him.
That last goal miss an absolute club (not coach) killer.
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Please tell me he's not contracted, he's got to go.
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Please tell me he's not contracted, he's got to go.
Still got another year on his contract to run :help.
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MR wasn’t involved enough either
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(https://i.postimg.cc/mrpNxdwW/23-D63-BBB-B7-ED-4-AD2-AB21-611-E31138584.jpg)
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It’s a bloody miracle this bloke has three premiership medals.
It’s a travesty really that legend players haven’t got one but this moron has three :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm
Mindboggling. Wouldn’t get a game with Nunawading.
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It’s a bloody miracle this bloke has three premiership medals.
It’s a travesty really that legend players haven’t got one but this moron has three :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm
Mindboggling. Wouldn’t get a game with Nunawading.
He used to be a better player than this. Either the game has gone past him or he's gone backwards. I've been his staunchest supporter but am done.
MR wasn’t involved enough either
Applied much more pressure IMO than his actual stats show.
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No words...
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Sonsie and Clarke and Banks should play before this hack
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Who was the player at Adelaide who was fired mid season.
Was it Pittman? Feel like it was an Adelaide ruckman. Anyway, Castagna should be next. Pay out his contract and leave him in GC.
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It’s a bloody miracle this bloke has three premiership medals.
It’s a travesty really that legend players haven’t got one but this moron has three :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm
Mindboggling. Wouldn’t get a game with Nunawading.
He used to be a better player than this. Either the game has gone past him or he's gone backwards. I've been his staunchest supporter but am done.
MR wasn’t involved enough either
Applied much more pressure IMO than his actual stats show.
He always been a hack.
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It’s a bloody miracle this bloke has three premiership medals.
It’s a travesty really that legend players haven’t got one but this moron has three :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm
Mindboggling. Wouldn’t get a game with Nunawading.
He used to be a better player than this. Either the game has gone past him or he's gone backwards. I've been his staunchest supporter but am done.
MR wasn’t involved enough either
Applied much more pressure IMO than his actual stats show.
He always been a hack.
X2.
Biggest momentum killer the game has ever seen.
Makes Sideshow Bob look like a footy mastermind.
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They are copping it Aarts and Castagna and rightly so but geez there are others who are guilty of similar and cop nothing.
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George is a disgrace to anyone who hails from italian heritage
stuff the useless idiot
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And who still thinks we should have kept him above Butler and Higgins, not me
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Cost us the game
Simple as that
The one in last, where he had Cumberland open...that miss Cost us the game
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Hardwick cost us the game when he picked castagna and aartz. We are playing 2 short when they play.
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Hardwick cost us the game when he picked castagna and aartz. We are playing 2 short when they play.
This
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If I had to make a choice between Aarts and Castagna I’d take Aarts, that’s how crap Castagna is.
It’s embarrassing he’s a Richmond player.
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Feeling philosophical this morning. I think it's time to send Jason to the back line. Try him as a small Defender behind the ball. He cannot stay on the list as a forward.
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Feeling philosophical this morning. I think it's time to send Jason to the back line. Try him as a small Defender behind the ball. He cannot stay on the list as a forward.
I get it, but I just can't imagine trusting Castagna to use the ball effectively by foot in our backline. Or by hand for that matter.
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VFL back line. If the experiment works then good. Cannot play AFL defensive forward ever again. If he does I can almost predict that Richmond fans won't turn up in protest. The back line is his circuit breaker. Has to happen 100% for his own sake and well-being.
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Is he contracted?
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I am not mad at George- just a case of us moving past him which was highlighted last night. I will be angry at the coaching department if they continue to play him though. Blair has his work cut out to trade him out. Astonishing career nevertheless.
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VFL back line. If the experiment works then good. Cannot play AFL defensive forward ever again. If he does I can almost predict that Richmond fans won't turn up in protest. The back line is his circuit breaker. Has to happen 100% for his own sake and well-being.
What a minute…
Let me see if I understand what your saying, you think Castagna should be playing in defence?
He has failed to hit a chest by hand or foot since he’s been playing for us, if he plays there the opposition would be getting the ball delivered to them on a silver platter.
If anyone thought his kicking was bad just watch every handball he executes and you’ll see that it rarely goes anywhere near a teammate and most often they lose momentum and have to contort their bodies to get the ball. It’s ridiculous. :rollin
How this fellow got games let alone three premierships remains one of the cruel mysteries of the sporting world. Surely it had to be only his speed and agility and possibly tackling that made him even considered otherwise my comprehension is beyond even words can express. It’s truly unbelievable.
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Is he contracted?
Thought they unbelievably gave him two years last year. could have it wrong but vaguely remember something along those lines.
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Is he contracted?
yes, till 2023
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Lol
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I don't blame George either, as someone mentioned need others to move past him.
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His one wood is his quick over 5-20m and has the potential to tackle. I say potential because he’s being shown up by MRJ. I don’t think he has the composure to play defence . That being said if he took a Steven Morris type role and helped dev our kids in vfl (getting body right, preparation etc) I wouldn’t be upset
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The behind the goal vision makes George's miss even worst if that's possible :help.
(http://oneeyed-richmond.com/images/animatedvidsgifs/R172022Q40552CastagnaMiss.gif)
Nah stuff the open goal, let's wait until the opposition defender runs over in front of you before kicking it :banghead :banghead :banghead.
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We all knew at this moment we were in big trouble
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Selfish....
A handball over the top and the game is sealed.
But oh no, I can do it!
George is one of those very ordinary players who has been in a very good team and he has jagged 3 premierships.
Trade him whilst he has a little value
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The behind the goal vision makes George's miss even worst if that's possible :help.
(http://oneeyed-richmond.com/images/animatedvidsgifs/R172022Q40522CastagnaMiss.gif)
Nah stuff the open goal, let's wait until the opposition defender runs over in front of you before kicking it :banghead :banghead :banghead.
His crap skills add to why it was touched. Ball drop to the insert of the foot is just horrible :wallywink
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Please god no more
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Just seen the Clangers ad on TV.
No surprise Castanga represented the tigers
Andrew Harris’s Grimes impression was there, cracks me up every time I see it
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Selfish....
A handball over the top and the game is sealed.
But oh no, I can do it!
George is one of those very ordinary players who has been in a very good team and he has jagged 3 premierships.
Trade him whilst he has a little value
I think you give Castagna too much credit.
Facts are he is a really really really really stupid footballer. Has no idea, no awareness or football perception had no idea the player was even there or was going to attempt to smother.
And even on the minuscule chance it did occur to him to handpass over the top, which I highly doubt, the ball would have been either way too high or way too low for the player running into the goalsquare. It’s highly unlikely that the handball would’ve been executed correctly and would have been a behind anyway.
Just a very dumb dunce of a player with no idea.
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How on earth has he played in 3 Premierships? It's absolutely remarkable given his skill level.
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TIGERS FORWARD RECEIVES SUPPORT AFTER “UNFAIR” FLAK
By Alex Zaia
SEN
13 July 2022
Richmond youngster Hugo Ralphsmith has thrown his support behind teammate Jason Castagna.
Castagna had the chance extend the Tigers’ advantage against Gold Coast on Saturday, only to have his kick smothered as he closed in on goal.
At the time, Richmond led by 17 points with less than six minutes left in the final quarter.
Castagna’s touched behind was the visitors’ last score of the match as the Suns kicked three late goals to seal a remarkable two-point after-the-siren win.
Ralphsmith, the Rising Star nominee for Round 17, says the forward’s mistake wasn’t the sole reason the Tigers lost the match.
“I think it definitely is a bit unfair (the criticism),” Ralphsmith told SEN Afternoons.
“There wasn’t just one moment that would’ve iced the game.
“‘Jase’ is a really tough dude. He doesn’t look into that quite as much, and neither do we.
“We back him as a player, and we back his ability.
“You play it over in your head a little bit, there’s moments in a game that I’ve played over in my head that I wish I did a little bit differently.
“That moment, I don’t think, defined the game.”
https://www.sen.com.au/news/2022/07/12/tigers-forward-receives-support-after-unfair-flak/
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Good on you for sticking up for your team mate, and generally well spoken.
BUT
“That moment, I don’t think, defined the game.”
Couldn't disagree more. It was significantly easier than Aarts or Rioli's misses. It absolutely F'd the momentum.
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I think that George failed to save the game for us ... but he had plenty of mates ... :-\
Team effort, team fail ...
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However you want to put it, it cant be denied that it was a terrible lack of composure that someone of his experience should never have made.
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Just how many opportunities did he blunder ?
Of course Hugo isn’t going to come out and berate Castagna to the media but this game is just a perfect example of why you can’t back Castagna in. You can’t trust his skills, decision making or anything ! The only thing you can trust is that you will shake your head when you watch him
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Just how many opportunities did he blunder ?
Of course Hugo isn’t going to come out and berate Castagna to the media but this game is just a perfect example of why you can’t back Castagna in. You can’t trust his skills, decision making or anything ! The only thing you can trust is that you will shake your head when you watch him
Think he had 4 shots and kicked 0.3?
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Just how many opportunities did he blunder ?
Of course Hugo isn’t going to come out and berate Castagna to the media but this game is just a perfect example of why you can’t back Castagna in. You can’t trust his skills, decision making or anything ! The only thing you can trust is that you will shake your head when you watch him
Think he had 4 shots and kicked 0.3?
Not quite at his record level of 0.5 with 1 out of bounds on the full
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Is it time to reach out to WAT to work with Jason?
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4 shots for 2 behinds plus that smothered rushed behind :P.
Q2 17:30
(http://oneeyed-richmond.com/images/animatedvidsgifs/R172022Q21730CastagnaMiss.gif)
Q2 9:15
(http://oneeyed-richmond.com/images/animatedvidsgifs/R172022Q20915CastagnaMiss.gif)
Q2 7:00
(http://oneeyed-richmond.com/images/animatedvidsgifs/R172022Q20700CastagnaMiss.gif)
Q4 6:00
(http://oneeyed-richmond.com/images/animatedvidsgifs/R172022Q40600CastagnaMiss.gif)
ps. This last one not his fault but George missed out on a Joe the Goose goal in the 3rd quarter when Bolton stuffed it up being too selfish.
(http://oneeyed-richmond.com/images/animatedvidsgifs/R172022Q30400BoltonSelfish.gif)
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When we were winning close games Castagna's misses didnt cost us as dearly as they are now that the situation has changed.
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Is it time to reach out to WAT to work with Jason?
:lol
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Just how many opportunities did he blunder ?
Of course Hugo isn’t going to come out and berate Castagna to the media but this game is just a perfect example of why you can’t back Castagna in. You can’t trust his skills, decision making or anything ! The only thing you can trust is that you will shake your head when you watch him
:thumbsup So true. :rollin
ps. This last one not his fault but George missed out on a Joe the Goose goal in the 3rd quarter when Bolton stuffed it up being too selfish.
(http://oneeyed-richmond.com/images/animatedvidsgifs/R172022Q30400BoltonSelfish.gif)
It looks terrible but who can really blame Bolton once he knew it was Castagna in the goalsquare? :rollin
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Would we get anything for this guy at all if we tried to trade him?
A third rounder?
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This was posted on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfaHto0gZOw
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This was posted on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfaHto0gZOw
Oof. Even I've had a gut full of him but gee that's harsh lol. Honestly a cringeworthy vid.
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It looks terrible but who can really blame Bolton once he knew it was Castagna in the goalsquare? :rollin
Joke or not, yes you can it was selfish by Bolton. And when you lose by 2 points it fulls under extremely costly category >:(
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This was posted on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfaHto0gZOw
Oof. Even I've had a gut full of him but gee that's harsh lol. Honestly a cringeworthy vid.
Yeah that's not good
He has given me the poos the last few seasons and has always been limited skillwise. Was a serviceable player in a few flags though and it's honestly not his fault he's had a golden ticket into the seniors for so long.
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Unfortunately his handballing is worse than his kicking
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I have never been a fan never but I have a problem with supporters who put up you tube clips highlighting one players mistakes. Ive always said hes a suburban league footballer but lets not target someone too the point where he might have or suffer mental health problems. I think putting up clips like that go too far.
In the end Hardwick has picked him to play in that game. If us losing last week was anyones fault it was Dimmas because he shouldnt have picked george or aarts in the first place.
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I have never been a fan never but I have a problem with supporters who put up you tube clips highlighting one players mistakes. Ive always said hes a suburban league footballer but lets not target someone too the point where he might have or suffer mental health problems. I think putting up clips like that go too far.
In the end Hardwick has picked him to play in that game. If us losing last week was anyones fault it was Dimmas because he shouldnt have picked george or aarts in the first place.
Spot on. He's doing his best and his best isn't good enough. He doesn't pick himself. No need to crucify the guy for it and have him do something damaging to himself.
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I have never been a fan never but I have a problem with supporters who put up you tube clips highlighting one players mistakes. Ive always said hes a suburban league footballer but lets not target someone too the point where he might have or suffer mental health problems. I think putting up clips like that go too far.
In the end Hardwick has picked him to play in that game. If us losing last week was anyones fault it was Dimmas because he shouldnt have picked george or aarts in the first place.
Spot on. He's doing his best and his best isn't good enough. He doesn't pick himself. No need to crucify the guy for it and have him do something damaging to himself.
Mental health is a real thing & copping flak from your own people could be the last straw for a battler.
Pretty stupid stuff over a game ...
I expect a lot from our boys so I also support them & back them up all the way ...
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I agree with all of the above but as you guys said his best just isn’t good enough, it’s not his fault but it’s simple. Just don’t pick him to play expecting him to perform well
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I have never been a fan never but I have a problem with supporters who put up you tube clips highlighting one players mistakes. Ive always said hes a suburban league footballer but lets not target someone too the point where he might have or suffer mental health problems. I think putting up clips like that go too far.
In the end Hardwick has picked him to play in that game. If us losing last week was anyones fault it was Dimmas because he shouldnt have picked george or aarts in the first place.
Spot on. He's doing his best and his best isn't good enough. He doesn't pick himself. No need to crucify the guy for it and have him do something damaging to himself.
Mental health is a real thing & copping flak from your own people could be the last straw for a battler.
Pretty stupid stuff over a game ...
I expect a lot from our boys so I also support them & back them up all the way ...
Cmon guys let’s get serious, a 10 year old could have kicked that goal that he missed, it’s not Hardwicks fault that Castanga couldn’t kick a goal that 99.9999999999% of other people would have kicked
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I have never been a fan never but I have a problem with supporters who put up you tube clips highlighting one players mistakes. Ive always said hes a suburban league footballer but lets not target someone too the point where he might have or suffer mental health problems. I think putting up clips like that go too far.
In the end Hardwick has picked him to play in that game. If us losing last week was anyones fault it was Dimmas because he shouldnt have picked george or aarts in the first place.
Spot on. He's doing his best and his best isn't good enough. He doesn't pick himself. No need to crucify the guy for it and have him do something damaging to himself.
Mental health is a real thing & copping flak from your own people could be the last straw for a battler.
Pretty stupid stuff over a game ...
I expect a lot from our boys so I also support them & back them up all the way ...
Cmon guys let’s get serious, a 10 year old could have kicked that goal that he missed, it’s not Hardwicks fault that Castanga couldn’t kick a goal that 99.9999999999% of other people would have kicked
Not contesting that. I tore my hair out at the time too. But he's been a loyal player who has tried his best and once the game is done there's no need for our own supporters to dump poo on the guy.
I've had my own problems and I'm an anonymous nobody. He's a young guy getting publicly ridiculed from all directions atm and sometimes people do drastic things under those circumstances.
I thought looking at him during the game that he knew the pressure he was under and his self-confidence was non-existent. He probably feels like a piece of poo atm without his own supporters reminding him.
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I have never been a fan never but I have a problem with supporters who put up you tube clips highlighting one players mistakes. Ive always said hes a suburban league footballer but lets not target someone too the point where he might have or suffer mental health problems. I think putting up clips like that go too far.
In the end Hardwick has picked him to play in that game. If us losing last week was anyones fault it was Dimmas because he shouldnt have picked george or aarts in the first place.
Spot on. He's doing his best and his best isn't good enough. He doesn't pick himself. No need to crucify the guy for it and have him do something damaging to himself.
Mental health is a real thing & copping flak from your own people could be the last straw for a battler.
Pretty stupid stuff over a game ...
I expect a lot from our boys so I also support them & back them up all the way ...
Cmon guys let’s get serious, a 10 year old could have kicked that goal that he missed, it’s not Hardwicks fault that Castanga couldn’t kick a goal that 99.9999999999% of other people would have kicked
cannot dispute any of that. All accurate
But
I can blame Dimma for picking a bloke we all know has the skills level expected from a WAT prodigy
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Like I've had 20 beers tonight and I'd back myself in to kick at a significantly more accurate rate than George. It's sickening
Let this bloke get his confidence up in the 2s and who knows, maybe he'll return a decent player with limitations like he once was. But right now he's on struggle street and I cannot stuffing take anymore
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Georgie Castagna training hard and running laps at my local park this morning.
https://twitter.com/BAFLD/status/1574155597343490048
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Jason Castagna (Richmond)
“He’s one that could potentially say ‘where am I at? I’ve been bypassed by Maurice Rioli, Noah Cumberland,” Matthew Lloyd said.
https://www.sen.com.au/news/2022/09/28/the-12-players-who-the-grass-may-be-greener-for-at-a-new-afl-club-in-2023/
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Steak knives
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Jason Castagna (Richmond)
“He’s one that could potentially say ‘where am I at? I’ve been bypassed by Maurice Rioli, Noah Cumberland,” Matthew Lloyd said.
https://www.sen.com.au/news/2022/09/28/the-12-players-who-the-grass-may-be-greener-for-at-a-new-afl-club-in-2023/
I think Lloydy is being kind. Reckon Clawski and Tigeritis have gone past him.
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If he could get him off the books I would certainly no role for him now.
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sheesh he is still there!!! who says list management get everything right.
What the hell are they thinking at times or even are they drinking the bath water.
In all honesty he is nowhere near best 22 but he may keep a player like Clarke in the magoos out of his position.
Poor players are poor players and ultimately blist cloggers no matter how popular they are.
Have never been a fan and quite frankly depite being absolutely gifted premierships still cannot work out how he survived so long.
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Looks like the coaches moved past him or at least see him in that 24-30 group of players.
He’s got one more year on his contract, no harm keeping him on the list when we don’t have the draft picks to replace him anyway and why cut him when his salary (or majority of it) would still count towards the cap. If after next season he remains in the same situation that he found himself in at the end of this season then I suspect his spot may be in danger.
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(http://oneeyed-richmond.com/images/players/CastagnaTattoo.png)
https://www.instagram.com/stories/jasoncastagna/2958861601115250707/?hl=en
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The muscle definition is as underwhelming as the tat
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The muscle definition is as underwhelming as the tat
Better than the horrendous ones he does himself
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Not his arm- George is working as an artist and this is some of his most recent work.
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George and Haley have tied the knot :).
(https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/attachments/image-1-jpg.1549860/)
https://www.instagram.com/jasoncastagna
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He went to put the ring on her finger and completely missed her hand
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Footy stars tie the knot as wedding season kicks on
(https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/23a244be27cb1a0aaa33b2e48cd0d885?width=320)
Melbourne and Richmond players came together at the weekend to celebrate the weddings of two much loved teammates.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/afl-weddings-demons-star-alex-nealbullens-lavish-ceremony-tigers-jason-castagna-marries/news-story/8a4d9ba677aa4479ed193eb1cf135749
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Some perspective ...
This is George's "highlights" video from his draft year (2014). He played mainly in defence for Vic Metro in this clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK7IYSZn9PM
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Not a lot there to get enthused about imo if thats his highlight reel then just imagine what the rest was like.
We basically drafted him on run and pace and little else.
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Not a lot there to get enthused about imo if thats his highlight reel then just imagine what the rest was like.
We basically drafted him on run and pace and little else.
Worked for a few years at least
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Another big pre-season of ink for George Castagna’s legs
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkZv_VhVUAA0KXl?format=jpg&name=large)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkZv_VfVEAA23-u?format=jpg&name=large)
https://twitter.com/MitchKeat/status/1605093471080968192
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Unfortunately Jason Castagna suffered what we believe is a medium-term hamstring tear during match play on Saturday.
He will begin his rehabilitation running progressions later this week.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fo0mOY8acAAvJap?format=jpg&name=900x900)
https://twitter.com/Richmond_FC/status/1624997421930668032
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https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/1276076/castagna-announces-retirement
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Wow. Didn't see that coming. Congrats on a very good career Jason!
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Well done Jason, played his role well, great career
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Congratulations mate. Never, ever doubted your effort and endeavour.
All the best.
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Thanks Georgie
A truly unique career & player, got the most out of himself & provided us with great entertainment both good & bad :)
Selfless act that says something about him & indeed our great club
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Congrats Georgie. All the best. :thumbsup
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Slight shame it wasn't 2-3 weeks ago so we could look at Narkle.
EDIT: Gives blokes a chance to work their butts off to get a look in for MSD.
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He had many flaws but will always be a RFC premiership player x 3. Not many get to say that
Thank you Jason.
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Triple-flag Tiger in shock retirement, 17 days from R1
Speedy forward hangs up his boots, effective immediately
By Martin Smith
afl.com.au
27 February 2023
THREE-time Richmond premiership player Jason Castagna has announced his shock retirement from the AFL at the age of 26.
Castagna informed his teammates on Monday, citing a lack of desire to continue at the highest level.
The small forward played 134 games for the Tigers, including their three premiership wins, having been taken at pick No.29 in the 2014 AFL Rookie Draft
"I love everything about this club and everyone in it, which has been the thing that has made this decision the hardest," he said.
"This game is such a demanding one physically and mentally, and something I have given my all to since I first walked in the doors here and for the years before that.
"Now that I cannot give that same energy, it has made me realise that I would be letting the boys and the Club down if I just coasted through and did not give it my all until the end, which has led me to this call."
Castagna's retirement comes less than two weeks after the end of the pre-season supplemental selection period (SSP), during which the Tigers could have filled the vacancy on its list.
With the SSP now closed, they will instead have to wait until the mid-season draft.
The Tigers signed country forward Kaelan Bradtke during the SSP ahead of former Geelong midfielder Quinton Narkle, who had been training with the club over summer.
The club announced earlier this month that Castagna would miss the start of the season due to a hamstring injury.
He played 16 games in 2022, his lowest tally since his debut year of 2016, and spent time in the midfield while in the VFL.
"Jason has been the ultimate teammate over the course of his 134 games at Richmond," said Richmond's footy boss Blair Hartley.
"He worked so hard on his craft to become an integral part of our team by playing a team-orientated and disciplined role in our forward line.
"Jason is so selfless and went about his business with minimum fuss. He set the tone with the pressure he created in the forward half of the ground through effort, grit and the ability to win or halve contests for the team.
"He has had a terrific career, playing an important role in three premierships, and can walk away proud of his achievements as an AFL footballer. We wish Jason and his family all the best for the next chapter, and he will always be a Richmond Man."
https://www.afl.com.au/news/878122/triple-flag-tiger-in-shock-retirement-17-days-from-r1
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His place in the side taken by Cotch, maybe?
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His place in the side taken by Cotch, maybe?
... what? He wasn't even in the side towards the end of last year
Anyway... thanks for your efforts Jason, they could never be questioned. 100 + games and goals for Richmond and 3 flags. That's a bloody good haul whatever way you look at it.
Hope you find enjoy in your footy again at the lower levels if you decide to have a kick. All the best :gotigers
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Slight shame it wasn't 2-3 weeks ago so we could look at Narkle.
EDIT: Gives blokes a chance to work their butts off to get a look in for MSD.
Glad he didn’t, all due respect but I can’t see how Narkle is a step forward, if he was interested should have signed into our VFA instead of Essendons
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He kicked crunch goals in prelims and grand finals - so much respect for this .
Like most supporters- I feel he was now a depth player so I’m excited at the opportunity this will provide for our cubs .
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Had to see the writing on the wall ages ago and only now does something about it. Anyway well done for at least not clogging the list up any longer.
Wish you all the best in future endevours.
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Odd this doesn't happen 3 weeks ago.
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Odd this doesn't happen 3 weeks ago.
Suspect he didn’t truly know that he didn’t have the drive for it until about 3 days ago.
I’m also not 100% sure we would have taken Narkle even if he did.
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Odd this doesn't happen 3 weeks ago.
Suspect he didn’t truly know that he didn’t have the drive for it until about 3 days ago.
Exactly. I'm sure he's had doubts for a while but finally realised he can't do it anymore, and that's fair enough
It's not as if he's put us out. If we can't cope for half a season without Narkle or anyone else we may have taken then gee.. I like that we get to see how we to and address any needs in the MSD now
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He had a role to play and he did it well.
He didn’t chase money like others - was on very low $, people forget that he had to work a day job when covid hit.
Ultimate team man.
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Thanks for the Flags and the memories - Good luck George
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He had a role to play and he did it well.
He didn’t chase money like others - was on very low $, people forget that he had to work a day job when covid hit.
Ultimate team man.
Well said. Was a great mark for his size and real team player. I think he retired at the right time for the right reasons. Wish him all the best for the future.
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All the best Jason cheers mate. I cannot say I was a massive fan but your hard work and effort has to be applauded. Good luck for the future.
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Need a highlight reel of his best points
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Need a highlight reel of his best points
Here it is.
https://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/1276140/jason-castagna-s-best-moments
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"I owe so much to Richmond" - Castagna
Jason Castagna sits down with Richmond Media following the announcement that he has retired from the AFL.
Watch here: https://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/1276311/i-owe-so-much-to-richmond-castagna
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At the end of the day he was a rookie pick and exceeded everyone’s expectations probably his own. I like many supporters have potted him many times for those castagna moments in the heat of games but with the calmness of off season it’s pretty obvious that despite his kicking woes he was a great club man, always put in 100% for his chasing and tackling efforts and was an awesome overhead mark for his size.
He was an absolutely essential cog in the 2017 tiger machine and he should at least be proud that he was a feature of the tiger style of manic pressure which has been copied many times by other clubs since 2017.
I wish him all the best with life after footy
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Thanks George. All the best wishes for the future. Walks away a 3-time Tiger premiership player who extracted the most out of himself and his ability. He can be very proud of himself and what he achieved. The rule changes, especially the Stand rule, effectively ended his AFL career as his main asset and role in the team was forward defensive pressure between 2017-2020. You can understand someone losing the passion to play when they know they'll most likely spend the whole final year of their last contract in the ressies.
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Got the absolute best out of his ability and always gave 100%
Can’t really ask for anything more than that.
Congratulations and good luck in retirement!
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Got the absolute best out of his ability and always gave 100%
Can’t really ask for anything more than that.
Congratulations and good luck in retirement!
^^^^^ this
I will never forget that clutch goal against the cats in the 2019 prelim. People potted him over the misses over his career. But gee that goal, crucial and helped us into a GF
Thanks Jason. Ultimate team first player
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By George, he’s gone: Why Jason Castagna was the heartbeat of the Tigers
Michael Gleeson
The Age
February 28, 2023
Jason Castagna was as emblematic of the Richmond triple premiership team as Dustin Martin.
Ordinarily there is not a lot of scope for comparing Martin and Castagna as footballers, but here goes.
Martin plays as if he has never entertained the idea that there was anything he couldn’t do on the football field. Castagna played as though he understood perfectly what he couldn’t and shouldn’t do, but also knew what he was there to do.
And yet they were equally important, in their own ways, to what Richmond achieved.
Yes, with three Norm Smith medals and a Brownlow, Martin contributed more than any player to Richmond’s success, but Castagna epitomised the other half of Richmond’s game and structure.
He was the archetypal role player. He was as much a foundation of how Richmond played as dynamic players like Martin, Jack Riewoldt, Tom Lynch, Nick Vlastuin, Alex Rance and Trent Cotchin.
He was loved by coaches and teammates for what he could do, not what he couldn’t. He was never going to be Eddie Betts, but he came to represent a type of modern small forward whose game was founded on pressure, not opportunism.
He made the opposition dispose of the ball a half second sooner than they wanted to, and this helped create turnovers near Richmond’s goal. The Tigers’ game, like Castagna’s, was predicated on turnovers. When they won flags, they were the No.1 turnover team in the AFL.
Castagna made a career out of being quick and working hard. He tackled hard, he put pressure on, and created goals for himself and others just by worrying the ball back into Richmond hands. He was cheap in draft and salary cap terms, but he was important in structural terms.
He emerged as part of that happenstance structure Richmond fell into in 2017 when injuries forced a new method and system. Richmond crafted a new attack built around Riewoldt and a bunch of small and medium forwards with speed and enormous pressure.
Because he was a player of limitations he was a regular whipping boy for fans (as small forwards often are). Kicking five straight behinds in the 2019 grand final, of course, didn’t help, but the same fans adored him for those flaws and what he meant to Richmond. His snap goal in the 2017 grand final was a moment that made the drought-breaking flag seem assured.
If fans were quick to blame Castagna at times, his teammates certainly were not. They loved the player with one of the best nicknames in football – George. Amusingly, Castagna had never watched an episode of Seinfeld when he got to the club and his teammates started to call him George after the Seinfeld character George Costanza. He laughed along, bewildered at how his new teammates were so thick as to confuse Jason with George.
When he announced his retirement at Punt Road on Monday morning, his former teammates and close friends Dan Butler, now at the Saints, and Dave Astbury were in the room. Castagna famously carries a tattoo on his buttock of Butler’s initials and a table tennis paddle after he lost a marathon match to his housemate.
In terms of recruiting decisions, Castagna must be one of the most fruitful selections. From a second round rookie draft pick (29) he played in three premierships, barely missed a game through injury, kicked nearly a goal a game (127 goals in 134 games), never gave the coaches grief and never did anything to embarrass the club. And two Brownlow votes!
He played more games than any player on Richmond’s list from 2017 to the end of 2021.
That all made Castagna’s decision to retire at the age of 26, just 18 days out from the new season, so surprising.
He has walked away from a solid contract, but the money never motivated him. He walked away because he thought it would be selfish to just go through the motions.
As he said to people at the club, this was the first pre-season in which he didn’t complete the summer program that the conditioning staff had mapped out for players on their break. He didn’t do it for any reason other than he just didn’t want to. He realised then that he was done.
Castagna has no immediate plans other than to do something more with tattoos and play basketball with his mates.
He leaves list manager Blair Hartley wondering about options to replace him. The Tigers really liked former Cat Quinton Narkle over the summer, and he is a logical choice for the mid-season draft.
Whoever it is, Richmond won’t be quite the same without George.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/by-george-he-s-gone-why-jason-castagna-was-the-heartbeat-of-the-tigers-20230227-p5cnyi.html
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Stat of the Day:
George was our equal 5th highest goalkicker across all our finals combined 2013-2020.
Riewoldt 30
Martin 26
Lynch 13
D.Rioli 13
Castagna 9
Lambert 9
Edwards 8
Caddy 8
Prestia 8
McIntosh 7
Here's all of George's 9 goals in finals:
Click to watch:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1538805351314767872/pu/img/MKx58O5RRiHwDgQz.jpg:large) (https://twitter.com/rfcswallace/status/1340048489783336961)
https://twitter.com/rfcswallace/status/1340048489783336961
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No Dusty in that goal kickers list?
He has more than Jack in GF's.
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But let’s can him Craw.
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No Dusty in that goal kickers list?
He has more than Jack in GF's.
LOL I forget the bleeding obvious :-[ :lol. I was going off the list on the link to the videos and they didn't have Dusty's finals goals. Dusty has 26 btw during that period. So, George is equal 5th most goals in finals 2013-2020.
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If he had kicked 5 goals instead of 5 behinds ( 2017 GFwas it?)he arguably could have won the Norm Smith, played a great game
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Odd this doesn't happen 3 weeks ago.
It’s very strange.
He is 26 which is prime age for most players so it’s very odd that he didn’t realise this at the end of last season. Did he, after this preseason, finally realised that he wasn’t in the plans moving forward? He didn’t already know?
I personally was surprised he or the club didn’t look to find a trade for him at the end of last season or maybe they did and there were no takers.
Who knows?
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Odd this doesn't happen 3 weeks ago.
It’s very strange.
He is 26 which is prime age for most players so it’s very odd that he didn’t realise this at the end of last season. Did he, after this preseason, finally realised that he wasn’t in the plans moving forward? He didn’t already know?
I personally was surprised he or the club didn’t look to find a trade for him at the end of last season or maybe they did and there were no takers.
Who knows?
3 weeks ago he wasn't injured. So perhaps he's tried to get through pre-seaon in the hope he'd get the passion back. You know being back at the Club around his mates. And now injured it's crystallised that the passion is completely gone, so rather than playing for the $ in his contract he's walked away
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Only player to enter @AFL via rookie draft and win 3 flags in first 100 games
People to play every game in a V/@AFL premiership year for RICH multiple times
Donald Don
Eric Zschech
Francis Bourke
Kevin Bartlett
JASON CASTAGNA (2017, 2020)
https://twitter.com/sirswampthing/status/1630058165697142786
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Damien Hardwick speaks to Jason Castagna in the lead up to the Grand Final against Geelong.
For anyone who ever doubted Jason’s role within the team, this is for you.
Watch: https://twitter.com/JourneyRichmond/status/1630307467669413890
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George and Butler are mates, but it says a lot about our Club these days that Butler despite now being at St Kilda was allowed back into the inner sanctum for George's farewell speech.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqAxcfZaYAEfwYp?format=jpg&name=large)
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqB4UbBaAAAnJqG?format=jpg&name=900x900)
https://twitter.com/Jonesracing82/status/1630435363629178880
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But let’s can him Craw.
Who canned him simply dont rate him as a player and never have.
an unskilled player who imo has cost us an opportunity to get games into better younger options.
Thats what i think and have always said it.
He aint dumb either its pretty clear MRJ, Cumberland and Clarke have shot past him not inconcievable that he realised he was playing magoos all year where he belonged.Especially with Bolton Martin Taranto and Sonsie going thru there and all the talk of Cotchin playing fwd as well.
Just my opinion and unlike others just because someone retires it doesnt change, but he should have been delisted and have said so before now. How much better would we have been with out him is the way i look at it.
Yes i dont rate him as a player and am glad he is no longer on the list. That's the truth. Outside of footy i wish him all the best. He is probably a very nice bloke.
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Now is absolutely the right time to double down on his deficiencies rather than celebrate his contribution to 3 Richmond premierships and wish him and his family all the best.
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Now is absolutely the right time to double down on his deficiencies rather than celebrate his contribution to 3 Richmond premierships and wish him and his family all the best.
I have no problem with one thing Claw said
Find it hard to agree with him, but I do
It’s like when a man dies, he automatically becomes a far better bloke than he ever was
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Now is absolutely the right time to double down on his deficiencies rather than celebrate his contribution to 3 Richmond premierships and wish him and his family all the best.
I have no problem with one thing Claw said
Find it hard to agree with him, but I do
It’s like when a man dies, he automatically becomes a far better bloke than he ever was
Retiring hasn't made him a better player. But we could say a kind word or two before tossing him onto the scrapheap of history -- if he deserves it, which he does.
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Damien Hardwick speaks to Jason Castagna in the lead up to the Grand Final against Geelong.
For anyone who ever doubted Jason’s role within the team, this is for you.
Watch: https://twitter.com/JourneyRichmond/status/1630307467669413890
As an example Broadsword
I don’t buy into this either
Dimma would be saying positive to all playing
He’s hardly going to say “Jase, you are lucky to be getting a game, you were the 21st selected in the team and some in the match committee wanted to pick xxxxxxx”
What Dimma is doing, is being a good coach .. it doesn’t show up anyone that ever doubted George
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Damien Hardwick speaks to Jason Castagna in the lead up to the Grand Final against Geelong.
For anyone who ever doubted Jason’s role within the team, this is for you.
Watch: https://twitter.com/JourneyRichmond/status/1630307467669413890
As an example Broadsword
I don’t buy into this either
Dimma would be saying positive to all playing
He’s hardly going to say “Jase, you are lucky to be getting a game, you were the 21st selected in the team and some in the match committee wanted to pick xxxxxxx”
What Dimma is doing, is being a good coach .. it doesn’t show up anyone that ever doubted George
Considering I didn't post that and it's besides my point I won't take it further except to say that I tend to agree with your assessment of the exchange.
The question isn't whether he was a fantastic player, it's whether on the days around his retirement you say goodbye and good luck or restate a subjective opinion about what a deficient footballer he was.
Did he always give his best for the Richmond football club? Probably yes. Did he pick himself? No. Did he enhance our culture? Probably yes (and who are we to say otherwise if the 'inner sanctum' say it is so). Has he suffered from online and real-time abuse? Yes.
People can be 'hard-nosed realists' at all times -- the day of his announcement even -- if they wish, but I put it to you that most people don't care and just wish him the best and thank him for his service to the club, which was a net positive, surely.
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Damien Hardwick speaks to Jason Castagna in the lead up to the Grand Final against Geelong.
For anyone who ever doubted Jason’s role within the team, this is for you.
Watch: https://twitter.com/JourneyRichmond/status/1630307467669413890
As an example Broadsword
I don’t buy into this either
Dimma would be saying positive to all playing
He’s hardly going to say “Jase, you are lucky to be getting a game, you were the 21st selected in the team and some in the match committee wanted to pick xxxxxxx”
What Dimma is doing, is being a good coach .. it doesn’t show up anyone that ever doubted George
Considering I didn't post that and it's besides my point I won't take it further except to say that I tend to agree with your assessment of the exchange.
The question isn't whether he was a fantastic player, it's whether on the days around his retirement you say goodbye and good luck or restate a subjective opinion about what a deficient footballer he was.
Did he always give his best for the Richmond football club? Probably yes. Did he pick himself? No. Did he enhance our culture? Probably yes (and who are we to say otherwise if the 'inner sanctum' say it is so). Has he suffered from online and real-time abuse? Yes.
People can be 'hard-nosed realists' at all times -- the day of his announcement even -- if they wish, but I put it to you that most people don't care and just wish him the best and thank him for his service to the club, which was a net positive, surely.
I only said to you as the convo was with you
If you change “probably yes” to definitely yes in both instances, I would agree with all you said above
He gave his all and was a culture positive , no doubt
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George and Butler are mates, but it says a lot about our Club these days that Butler despite now being at St Kilda was allowed back into the inner sanctum for George's farewell speech.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqAxcfZaYAEfwYp?format=jpg&name=large)
You need to remember that Dan is a lIFE member of RFC
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Friday night walk in my neighbourhood and I see this pop up! What a brilliant reflection of culture for the @Richmond_FC. A billboard to say thank you to ‘George’! (https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/1f64c.png) (https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/1f42f.png)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqSWZ9SaIAESEYb?format=jpg&name=large)
https://twitter.com/Potts40/status/1631594348554104832
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Friday night walk in my neighbourhood and I see this pop up! What a brilliant reflection of culture for the @Richmond_FC. A billboard to say thank you to ‘George’! (https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/1f64c.png) (https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/1f42f.png)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqSWZ9SaIAESEYb?format=jpg&name=large)
https://twitter.com/Potts40/status/1631594348554104832
:clapping
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Hypothetical question:
Would George get a game right now with all our outs if he hadn't retired?
:outtahere
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Yep
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Hypothetical question:
Would George get a game right now with all our outs if he hadn't retired?
:outtahere
Yep
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Hypothetical question:
Would George get a game right now with all our outs if he hadn't retired?
:outtahere
He'd almost be captain if Grimesy we to go down
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And capt/coach if dimma went down as well
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Hardwick laments “guilt” over early Jason Castagna retirement
Jack Jovanovski
SEN
June 26, 2023
Next, Hardwick explored the unfortunate circumstances surrounding Castagna's unexpected pre-season retirement, expressing his fear that the three-time premiership forward may have closed the door on his AFL career due to the scrutiny he received from fans online, announcing his guilt for not doing more to publicly defend his disciple.
"Probably one of the hardest things for me was when Jason Castagna retired, he was one of the greatest role players, if not the greatest role player that our football club has ever seen," said Hardwick.
"I sort of felt like I didn't protect him enough, I hope this isn't the case, but I've got a funny feeling that social media brought about the downfall of 'George'.
"It became too hard for him, his love of the game diminished because of the criticism that he would get from fans, and I sort of felt a little bit of guilt towards that because I think, internally, we sort of gave him the due credit he deserved, but externally, I sort of felt a little bit guilty that maybe I didn't stick up for him enough with regard to the role he played, and didn't give him the due credits that he deserved for making us a great side."
Hardwick cited fans' preference for fantasy football value, instead of an appreciation for Richmond's nuanced game style, as a reason why Castagna was unappealing in the eyes of some.
"I sort of felt that it got the better of him, and that's the hard thing about our game. People sort of sit there and look at SuperCoach points; kicks, marks, handballs, well Richmond's not really about that," Hardwick said.
"They're about a system that gives them an opportunity to play, or a way to play the game that'll give them wins, and by those players playing those positions, will allow other players to flourish and succeed."
https://www.zerohanger.com/damien-hardwick-lauds-unheralded-heros-role-in-uplifting-dustin-martin-laments-guilt-over-early-jason-castagna-retirement-139072/
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I think Dimma is part to blame for this just kept on playing him until his confidence was shot didn't drop him to the vfl till the end to find form. He goes on about stats etc George wasn't even doing the basics tackling etc let alone kicking goals a bit of bs for me.
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Greatest role player the tigers have ever had.. LMAO
Now I've heard it all. Luckiest player to ever play AFL he was. Macintosh has his flaws but he has been a better role player, as was Lambert. Come on Dimma. Reality is you should have kept Butler and traded that Simpsons character
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Reckon that article shows just how close coaches get to players and lose objectivity.
They are supposed to be coaches not the players best friends. When that gets in the way it is indeed time to walk away.
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I think Dimma is part to blame for this just kept on playing him until his confidence was shot didn't drop him to the vfl till the end to find form. He goes on about stats etc George wasn't even doing the basics tackling etc let alone kicking goals a bit of bs for me.
I agree with this, which I think Dimma is sorta saying in a way. That he kept playing him whilst he was playing poorly but wasn't defending him for the reasons they were happy with him internally.
But agree in that he was looked after too much.
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Awesome responses above. I second those sentiments. I commend him for forming deep relationships with the players and he didn’t just treat them as expendable meat packets. Unfortunately that meant he couldn’t see when the best thing to do was protect players by playing them in Vfl to boost their confidence a bit.
Every fan has a right to be spewing, when players miss absolute sodas 10 m from goal (aarts and castagna against GC last year from memory). No one doubts castagna in 17-20 was a hallmark of immense tackling pressure and forward half turnovers. I’d argue the ease of how teams walked it out of our f50 in the first half of this year was largely due to castagna not playing. But fmd when a small forward only averages around 10 touches a game you can’t be spraying shots 10 m out
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Criticising his performance when he had bad games is one thing... Relentlessly ripping into him on social media so that his mental health is destroyed is another....
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Criticising his performance when he had bad games is one thing... Relentlessly ripping into him on social media so that his mental health is destroyed is another....
Yup
3 more premierships than all his critics won too.
Most maligned 3-time premiership player in history?
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Criticising his performance when he had bad games is one thing... Relentlessly ripping into him on social media so that his mental health is destroyed is another....
I agree some take it to far criticism do it respectful , but gez we blowing this up bigtime for me hearing alot bs and excuses.
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He copped it and lot and it got to him. That I know first hand, no whispers. He's a really nice bloke and I have no reason to doubt Dimma's take on it
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Criticising his performance when he had bad games is one thing... Relentlessly ripping into him on social media so that his mental health is destroyed is another....
👆 this
And
He copped it and lot and it got to him. That I know first hand, no whispers. He's a really nice bloke and I have no reason to doubt Dimma's take on it
👆 this
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His best asset was his marking. Exceptional mark for his size. He had decent work rate in our premiership years too. Unfortunately was terrible by hand and foot but despite his deficiencies was able to cement his role and play in three premierships. :clapping
It’s a cruel game for some of vfl/afl greats that weren’t able to even get one.
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George didn't retire because of criticism and online abuse which I don't condone .He retired because he seen the writing on the wall and wasn't best 22 and wasn’t going to get a game.His maniac pressure and speed we're gone nothing like the flag years.He didn't perform in the afl or vfl . Let's cut the bs and crap stop making excuses for the bloke plenty of players go through what he experienced.
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Not sure Jason has ever blamed "bullies online" for his retirement
Don't think he ever mentioned it
But whatever
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I was a fan of what George bought to our club , many times you’d see him in the back pocket mopping up, or rampaging up and down the ground ,however after the Gold Coast game last year I lost faith in him and became very critical of him . All those years of enjoying him play were washed away , rather than put those bad performances in perspective over his whole career.He will always be a triple premiership player and for that he can hold his head high
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Not sure Jason has ever blamed "bullies online" for his retirement
Don't think he ever mentioned it
But whatever
He never did, iirc Dimma mentioned it.
But hey whatever.
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Snip!
Leave politics and the other crap off the football forum! :banghead
Back to the topic!
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Not sure Jason has ever blamed "bullies online" for his retirement
Don't think he ever mentioned it
But whatever
He never did, iirc Dimma mentioned it.
But hey whatever.
Exactly the way Dimma put it seemed like it.
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Not sure Jason has ever blamed "bullies online" for his retirement
Don't think he ever mentioned it
But whatever
The way Dimma talked about it he made it sound like it , but hey it's not the narrative to suit everyone.
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11. Jason Castagna
Unfashionable, unreliable by foot and no one’s notion of talented, “George” Castagna was often the subject of Richmond fans’ ire. But as Joni Mitchell said, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. Castagna’s pressure, speed and sacrifice made him an important figure in Damien Hardwick’s premierships. He played only 134 games, but made all three flags for good reason.
Castagna’s career, while less discussed or heralded, warranted ranking ahead of others who’ve left the game.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/buddy-riewoldt-top-the-class-ranking-the-afl-s-retirees-20230816-p5dwwv.html
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Like all our small forwards , played a thankless ,career killing role, with constant negative criticism, not one of our small forwards has been able to make it their own spot for years
In saying George had average skill, but tried his best and in the end just lost all confidence and gave it away.
Probably need to do something different if we one of them to thrive
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Just not buying into this garbage. Bottom line he was terribly skilled and a very average player. Sad that allowed honesty to get to him.
If it was such a career destroying role then maybe the coaches and club need to put their hand up.
Bottom line is somhow George managed o hang around and play in three flags when in any other team system at the time he would have struggled to last a2 seasons.
George is an example of what we have got wrong in our successful period and too many supporters are oblivious to it. He was always just a role player of very limited ability and he really should have been UPGRADED early on but success does strange things to EVERYONE'S thinking.
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Just not buying into this garbage. Bottom line he was terribly skilled and a very average player. Sad that allowed honesty to get to him.
If it was such a career destroying role then maybe the coaches and club need to put their hand up.
Bottom line is somhow George managed o hang around and play in three flags when in any other team system at the time he would have struggled to last a2 seasons.
George is an example of what we have got wrong in our successful period and too many supporters are oblivious to it. He was always just a role player of very limited ability and he really should have been UPGRADED early on but success does strange things to EVERYONE'S thinking.
Think it was 2019, George kicked 5 behinds, if the were goal May have won BOG, he was pretty good that day
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Lol missed the point, George was an average role player, but I bet you can’t name a player who has played the position better than George.
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Lol missed the point, George was an average role player, but I bet you can’t name a player who has played the position better than George.
Lol he is at the bottom of the list when it come to position. His role within that position was one dimensional and very limited.
If he had not managed to play in those flags he would indeed go down as one of the worst players to ever play the game when it comes to most areas of the game..Im not taking a shot at George im just being honest.
Surely all limited players should be expecting to be upgraded on if they are honest with themselves.And surely supporters can get over themselves and accept that they were indeed very ordinary limited players who were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time and saw success.
I actually thank George deep down he knew what he was and he retired because our club has been drinking its own bath water and would not have delisted him.
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Lol missed the point, George was an average role player, but I bet you can’t name a player who has played the position better than George.
Lol he is at the bottom of the list when it come to position. His role within that position was one dimensional and very limited.
If he had not managed to play in those flags he would indeed go down as one of the worst players to ever play the game when it comes to most areas of the game..Im not taking a shot at George im just being honest.
Surely all limited players should be expecting to be upgraded on if they are honest with themselves.And surely supporters can get over themselves and accept that they were indeed very ordinary limited players who were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time and saw success.
I actually thank George deep down he knew what he was and he retired because our club has been drinking its own bath water and would not have delisted him.
134 games, 127 goals and a rising star nomination.
Far from the worst player ever lol
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Lol missed the point, George was an average role player, but I bet you can’t name a player who has played the position better than George.
Lol he is at the bottom of the list when it come to position. His role within that position was one dimensional and very limited.
If he had not managed to play in those flags he would indeed go down as one of the worst players to ever play the game when it comes to most areas of the game..Im not taking a shot at George im just being honest.
Surely all limited players should be expecting to be upgraded on if they are honest with themselves.And surely supporters can get over themselves and accept that they were indeed very ordinary limited players who were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time and saw success.
I actually thank George deep down he knew what he was and he retired because our club has been drinking its own bath water and would not have delisted him.
134 games, 127 goals and a rising star nomination.
Far from the worst player ever lol
Nope ONE of the worst. Slight difference but not worth arguing.
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“If he had not managed to play in those flags he would indeed go down as one of the worst players to ever play the game when it comes to most areas of the game..Im not taking a shot at George im just being honest.”
:lol
Post of the year.
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“If he had not managed to play in those flags he would indeed go down as one of the worst players to ever play the game when it comes to most areas of the game..Im not taking a shot at George im just being honest.”
:lol
Post of the year.
So take all the training all his family’s support, his commitment to the game and his success, then following his 3 flags and retirement supporters just have to suck any joy Jason may have derived from the game.
Sad
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Lol missed the point, George was an average role player, but I bet you can’t name a player who has played the position better than George.
Lol he is at the bottom of the list when it come to position. His role within that position was one dimensional and very limited.
If he had not managed to play in those flags he would indeed go down as one of the worst players to ever play the game when it comes to most areas of the game..Im not taking a shot at George im just being honest.
Surely all limited players should be expecting to be upgraded on if they are honest with themselves.And surely supporters can get over themselves and accept that they were indeed very ordinary limited players who were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time and saw success.
I actually thank George deep down he knew what he was and he retired because our club has been drinking its own bath water and would not have delisted him.
134 games, 127 goals and a rising star nomination.
Far from the worst player ever lol
Nope ONE of the worst. Slight difference but not worth arguing.
Aside from being a poor set shot, what was so terrible that he's one of the worst players in the history of the AFL out of thousands of players?
I would argue he did very well given his limitations and can think of several worse players currently and recently on our list.
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“If he had not managed to play in those flags he would indeed go down as one of the worst players to ever play the game when it comes to most areas of the game..Im not taking a shot at George im just being honest.”
:lol
Post of the year.
So take all the training all his family’s support, his commitment to the game and his success, then following his 3 flags and retirement supporters just have to suck any joy Jason may have derived from the game.
Sad
agree. I think he was harshly done by some of us. I recall some said he was the issue with our forward line. :lol :lol
I will always thank him for what he did and tbh i didnt think he was all that bad. FFS look at some on our list now.
26, 27 and 17. Those were his goals in each our GF years. If some think that is poo then they are really stupid people.
He did his job and like many now was a victim of playing a role that is now obsolete as our big stars are cooked.
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If some think that is poo then they are really stupid people.
Quoted for truth
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Poor bugger lost all confidence in his last season and couldn't do much right apart from playing to structures and having a dip.
Prior to that he was good overhead for his size and lively. Unreliable kick and perhaps the worst handballer I've seen but did have some good tools and was a solid contributor in his first 2 flags.
100+ games and goals is pretty bloody decent
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“If he had not managed to play in those flags he would indeed go down as one of the worst players to ever play the game when it comes to most areas of the game..Im not taking a shot at George im just being honest.”
:lol
Post of the year.
So take all the training all his family’s support, his commitment to the game and his success, then following his 3 flags and retirement supporters just have to suck any joy Jason may have derived from the game.
Sad
agree. I think he was harshly done by some of us. I recall some said he was the issue with our forward line. :lol :lol
I will always thank him for what he did and tbh i didnt think he was all that bad. FFS look at some on our list now.
26, 27 and 17. Those were his goals in each our GF years. If some think that is poo then they are really stupid people.
He did his job and like many now was a victim of playing a role that is now obsolete as our big stars are cooked.
17* goals in shortened quarters too so if you were to adjust that +25% for full length quarters that would be 21-22 goals, although all forwards were significantly down on even that adjusted figure - personally I think the shorter quarters allowed prolonged defensive running and cut down those 'late in the quarter' goals when the midfield is fatiguing and the forwards get a better run at it.
So who knows maybe that would have been another 25+ goal season...
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The fact that since castagna retired we have had no small forward come close to locking it in, taking overhead marks and bobbing up for the odd goal has made me realise he was better than his lowlight reel would suggest.
I was definitely one of the many who potted him because his misses were just hair pulling stuff but how he played in our structure really did help the team overall kick goals. Not to mention he was pretty handy in finals as well.
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I was definitely one of the many who potted him because his misses were just hair pulling stuff but how he played in our structure really did help the team overall kick goals. Not to mention he was pretty handy in finals as well.
Agree, those five points he kicked v GWS in the GF 2019 were a real highlight
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LOL, a bit of a rant, but didn’t answer who has been a better small forward for Richmond in the last few years, we know he had limitations but that want the question 🙊🙉🙈
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Poor bugger lost all confidence in his last season and couldn't do much right apart from playing to structures and having a dip.
Prior to that he was good overhead for his size and lively. Unreliable kick and perhaps the worst handballer I've seen but did have some good tools and was a solid contributor in his first 2 flags.
100+ games and goals is pretty bloody decent
Agree with this.
He was poor in his last years but that doesn’t mean that he wasn’t a valuable contributor to the flags.
He was quick, a good mark and a good tackler. He had some good attributes among his flaws.
No point wasting your time trying to debate these things with Clawski who has no balance or nuance whatsoever in his takes.
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Poor bugger lost all confidence in his last season and couldn't do much right apart from playing to structures and having a dip.
Prior to that he was good overhead for his size and lively. Unreliable kick and perhaps the worst handballer I've seen but did have some good tools and was a solid contributor in his first 2 flags.
100+ games and goals is pretty bloody decent
Spot on
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Lol at the hypocricy. Most of you lot bagged the poo out of him along with me.
What i dont get as a footballer i never ever rated him even in the premiership years. NOW HE HAS RETIRED IM EXPECTED TO CHANGE MY THOUGHTS ON HIM. and sugar coat the many many deficiencies.
Sorry people he was lucky to play in the premierships, he was lucky to be in the right place at the right time and with or without him we would have won all three flags.With out a doubt he was a very ordinary player but hey let the truth fly out the window because he played in some premierships.
Hmm his job literally, small forward and ALL the areas that entails, yet you nuffies break it down even further, now days a role player in his case a small fwd who does just one thing or in this case pressure well., of the many roles that make up being a small fwd. He is not even a glass half full player in fact extremely limited is being fair.
Isaid this right thru his whole career so why are people expecting me to change my opinion just because he has retired.
People on footy sites are the biggest hypocrites.
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Lol at the hypocricy. Most of you lot bagged the poo out of him along with me.
What i dont get as a footballer i never ever rated him even in the premiership years. NOW HE HAS RETIRED IM EXPECTED TO CHANGE MY THOUGHTS ON HIM. and sugar coat the many many deficiencies.
Sorry people he was lucky to play in the premierships, he was lucky to be in the right place at the right time and with or without him we would have won all three flags.With out a doubt he was a very ordinary player but hey let the truth fly out the window because he played in some premierships.
Hmm his job literally, small forward and ALL the areas that entails, yet you nuffies break it down even further, now days a role player in his case a small fwd who does just one thing or in this case pressure well., of the many roles that make up being a small fwd. He is not even a glass half full player in fact extremely limited is being fair.
Isaid this right thru his whole career so why are people expecting me to change my opinion just because he has retired.
People on footy sites are the biggest hypocrites.
You're just a bit of an extremist.
Everyone is either a good player or terrible pretty much.
Haven't answered my last questions either.
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Lol at the hypocricy. Most of you lot bagged the poo out of him along with me.
What i dont get as a footballer i never ever rated him even in the premiership years. NOW HE HAS RETIRED IM EXPECTED TO CHANGE MY THOUGHTS ON HIM. and sugar coat the many many deficiencies.
Sorry people he was lucky to play in the premierships, he was lucky to be in the right place at the right time and with or without him we would have won all three flags.With out a doubt he was a very ordinary player but hey let the truth fly out the window because he played in some premierships.
Hmm his job literally, small forward and ALL the areas that entails, yet you nuffies break it down even further, now days a role player in his case a small fwd who does just one thing or in this case pressure well., of the many roles that make up being a small fwd. He is not even a glass half full player in fact extremely limited is being fair.
Isaid this right thru his whole career so why are people expecting me to change my opinion just because he has retired.
People on footy sites are the biggest hypocrites.
Calling him one of the worst player to have played the game is one of the worst things I have seen from a Richmond supporter on a forum.
Own it.
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Don't worry about Claw HRT He's not a true Tiger supporter, he only ever has negative things to say. I don't think Ive ever seen a positive post from him.
I skip his posts now because I know that theyll only be negative.
Life is much more enjoyable without the negativity.
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Don't worry about Claw HRT He's not a true Tiger supporter, he only ever has negative things to say. I don't think Ive ever seen a positive post from him.
I skip his posts now because I know that theyll only be negative.
Life is much more enjoyable without the negativity.
Claw has some good points to make but he was noticeably less active in 2017, 19, 20.
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I wonder if crawski likes the negativity at his posting as much he likes being negative towards his football team.
He calls out his honesty as a defence but we too are being just as honest about his posting.
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I wonder if crawski likes the negativity at his posting as much he likes being negative towards his football team.
He calls out his honesty as a defence but we too are being just as honest about his posting.
The difference is that our honesty has punctuation and 7 less paragraphs.
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if you’re a Richmond supporter , you support Richmond , I don’t see a lot of support going on with the craw. Some points are reasonable , around our recruiting and giving the kids ago where possible because they are backed up with logic. The insults when people don’t agree gets me ,along with the hating of players in a side that has given us so much in recent years.
Oh well haters have got to hate
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Rumour that he's coming out of retirement and headed to Gold Coast with Dimma....no joke... :shh
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Rumour that he's coming out of retirement and headed to Gold Coast with Dimma....no joke... :shh
Wish him all the best
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Rumour that he's coming out of retirement and headed to Gold Coast with Dimma....no joke... :shh
Wish him all the best
X 100
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I wonder if crawski likes the negativity at his posting as much he likes being negative towards his football team.
He calls out his honesty as a defence but we too are being just as honest about his posting.
The difference is that our honesty has punctuation and 7 less paragraphs.
:lol
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Happily wish George all the best, he was a bottom 6 player in a dynasty. They are all important but fact of the matter is, once chaos ball was squashed he didn't have the skills to adapt. It's a harsh landscape, same with Steve Morris, once sliding and diving rules came in his one wood was taken away and became VFL standard.
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Chol and Castagna to kick 100 goals between them next year
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Chol and Castagna to kick 100 goals between them next year
In the VFL.... :shh
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I’m not gonna lie though I reckon some Karmichael Hunt moment is gonna happen where it’s gonna be a contested mark from Chol then handball to ellis, he runs through the corridor takes 5 bounces then hits up castagna for a goal after the siren and we lose by a point
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Aided by a shepherd from Graham.... :shh
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Small forwards* to have 20+ disposals, 6+ marks, 5+ Inside 50’s, 3+ clearances, 10+ score involvements & 580+ metres gained in a Grand Final
➡️ Jason Castagna (2019)
#gotiges
*This is to the best of my knowledge. Someone may have done it in the late 1800’s.
https://twitter.com/bostontiger35/status/1708241998971592894
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And 0 goals…. So close to being a complete player. If he could just kick a bit better he would’ve been amazing
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And 0 goals…. So close to being a complete player. If he could just kick a bit better he would’ve been amazing
Yeah honestly even if he'd have kicked 2 that would have been a huge day lol
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He played like a rabbit in front of headlight or a headless chook. Don't miss him one bit