Watched Butler and Stengle many times live an I know exactly what Butler ads to the team as I’ve said as a pure footballer I.e skills, smarts, tackling I prefer Stengle over Butler, you may not that’s your call.
One other thing re Butler which you see at the game live or on TV is the brain freezes, I probably sound a bit harsh on Butler, I don’t mind him as a player at all, I just think his got some real competition coming for his spot.
On Castagna there’s no doubt he had a few quiet games on the stats sheet last year, however like Butler and Rioli for that matter they were all part of a unit that won a premiership that did a stack of unseen stuff, the main thing that Castagna offers over Butler is in the air, fights well above his weight division in that area. I can understand others not rating Georgie overly highly before this year as his not a “ pretty” looking footballer but as you know he more then makes up for it and I’d guess would be the popular vote for most improved.
Bottom line is we have a small forward brigade that hasn’t ever been seen before, they have somewhat changed the game, thing is at this stage we can only play 3 , however in time I think the likes of Rioli, Higgins and Bolton will play up the ground, however at this point it’s a tough call on who are the best combination
