I was thinking the same thing.I think he’s definitely a decent footballer.
I’m not sure he’s been treated unfairly by Carlton though. He gets a game every week. His issue is though that the Blues have too many similar types and there are better mids ahead of him so he has to spend time in other positions.
He’d have the same issue with us I’d imagine and probably nearly every other club in the competition.
You need a point of difference in your midfield so unless you are elite as that one paced hall winner you are going to struggle to get a full game in the middle.
Without having checked stats, he's not going to be a Lachie Neale mass accumulator.
He's not huge (says he's 190, but he might have had a high-hair-day that day).
He doesn't have the dog-hungry Jai Newcombe attack on the ball.
Plays more like a Neale-Bullen type from what I remember, maybe a few more marks but a few less goals. Which is very handy but not a guaranteed midfield spot each week.