Jason Castagna [merged]

[one-eyed]

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

[big tone]

Id rather we keep Butler and lose Castagna or Baker instead

Still stand by this?

[Diocletian]

The opposite will happen so it's all moot now...

[mat073]

He's actually having a pretty stellar year.

Of all the amigos of 2017 , who would of thought Jason would be first picked now .

[Dougeytherichmondfan]

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.

[one-eyed]

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

[big tone]

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.

[Tiger Khosh]

Didn’t he mean competition wide not just in our squad?

[big tone]

Didn’t he mean competition wide not just in our squad?

Surely not!
That makes it even worse.

[one-eyed]

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

[Tiger Khosh]

That’s a strange 3 stats to include in a triple double

[Diocletian]

Not as strange as importing irrelevant stats and terminology from Seppo sport into our game... 

[one-eyed]

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

[Assange Tiger 😎]

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.

[Tiger Khosh]

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.