Levi Casboult
Casboult playing for Carlton in 2017
Personal information
Full name Levi Casboult
Date of birth (1990-03-15) 15 March 1990 (age 34)[1]
Place of birth Hobart, Tasmania[2]
Original team(s) Dandenong Stingrays
Draft No. 44, 2010 rookie draft[3]
No. 3, 2022 rookie draft
Height 201 cm (6 ft 7 in)[1]
Weight 101 kg (223 lb)
Position(s) Key forward
Club information
Current club Gold Coast
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2010–2021 Carlton 154 (156)
2022– Gold Coast 43 (59)
Total 197 (215)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2024 round 1.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Levi Casboult (born 15 March 1990)[1] is an Australian rules footballer, who currently plays for the Gold Coast Suns in the Australian Football League, having formerly played for the Carlton Football Club from 2010 to 2021.

Casboult, a tall and solidly built player, spent much of his formative years as a ruckman and key position player. Casboult began to play TAC Cup football with the Dandenong Stingrays in 2007. He played a total of 44 games with the Stingrays; in his first two seasons, he scored only three goals, but in 2009 he was moved into a key forward role and scored 41 goals in 20 matches.[4]

Casboult was recruited by the Carlton Football Club with its third round selection in the 2010 AFL Rookie Draft (at selection 44 overall).[3] His first month at the club was eventful. Before the 2009 Christmas break, Casboult attended the team's controversial booze cruise (the fallout from which included the suspensions of Andrew Walker, Eddie Betts and Ryan Houlihan, plus a "please explain" to the club from the AFL); it was widely reported in the media that, in an initiation game, Casboult was handcuffed to an unnamed senior player and forced to match him drink-for-drink until barely conscious.[5] A few days later, on 24 December, Casboult was fortunate to walk away uninjured from in a head-on car accident: his car was struck by the car of Samir Azemi, which had jumped the median strip on the Princes Highway in Dandenong. Azemi was killed in the accident.[6]

Playing as a key forward and occasional ruckman for the club's VFL-affiliate, the Northern Blues, Casboult did not play an AFL game for Carlton in his first two seasons after being drafted, and was even on occasion dropped to the VFL reserves. A PCL injury at the start of 2012 made his chances of ever making his senior debut seem unlikely; but, only two VFL games after his return from that injury, Casboult was called into the senior team for his debut as starting ruckman in Round 17, 2012, after injuries and suspension resulted in Carlton's first three ruck choices all being unavailable for selection.[7][8]

Casboult won a regular place in the senior team in 2014, playing as a forward and sometimes as a back-up ruckman. Over the course of his career, he gained attention as one of the strongest contested marks in the competition.[9] and he was a Mark of the Year finalist in 2014.[10] Through the early part of his career, this strength in his game was offset by very poor goalkicking accuracy from set shots, returning less than 50% each season and not reliable even at close range;[11] but after working with former Collingwood and North Melbourne full forward Saverio Rocca in 2015 and again in 2017, became one of the team's most reliable set shots.[12] He led the team in goalkicking for the only time in his career in 2017, with a return of 34 goals, 18 behinds, and signed a two-year contract extension with the club after the season.[13]

After a 2018 season was abbreviated by injury, Casboult returned as a regular to the team in 2019 and 2020, and began playing swing key position roles in both the forwardline and backline, as well as back-up ruck.[14] Falling out of form in 2021, Casboult played about half of the season in the senior team and was delisted at the end of the year, after 154 senior games.[15] He was subsequently picked up by Gold Coast in the 2022 rookie draft.

Statistics

Statistics are correct to the end of round 23, 2022[16]
Legend
  G  
 Goals
  K  
 Kicks
  D  
 Disposals 
  T  
 Tackles
  B  
 Behinds 
  H  
 Handballs 
  M  
 Marks
H/O
 Hit-outs
Season Team No. Games Totals Averages (per game) Votes
G B K H D M T H/O G B K H D M T H/O
2012 Carlton 41 6 7 12 37 17 54 31 12 43 1.2 2.0 6.2 2.8 9.0 5.2 2.0 9.0 0
2013 Carlton 41 11 7 7 63 37 100 48 18 68 0.6 0.6 5.7 3.4 9.1 4.3 1.6 6.2 0
2014 Carlton 41 19 15 11 109 91 200 108 43 131 0.8 0.6 5.7 4.8 10.5 5.7 2.3 6.9 0
2015 Carlton 41 16 24 12 100 50 150 83 15 86 1.5 0.8 6.3 3.1 9.4 5.2 0.9 5.4 0
2016 Carlton 41 20 18 18 119 72 191 107 26 6 0.9 0.9 6.0 3.6 9.6 5.4 1.3 0.3 0
2017 Carlton 41 22 34 18 144 76 220 120 39 157 1.5 0.8 6.5 3.4 10 5.4 1.8 7.1 0
2018 Carlton 41 10 12 10 61 25 86 37 12 76 1.2 1.0 6.1 2.5 8.6 3.7 1.2 7.6 0
2019 Carlton 41 20 15 11 159 64 223 114 44 164 0.8 0.6 8.0 3.2 11.2 5.7 2.2 8.2 0
2020[a] Carlton 41 17 16 8 112 40 152 80 31 86 0.9 0.5 6.6 2.4 8.9 4.7 1.8 5.1 2
2021 Carlton 41 13 8 5 77 34 111 47 25 79 0.6 0.4 5.9 2.6 8.5 3.6 1.9 6.1 0
2022 Gold Coast 30 21 35 22 114 7 31 17 1 0 2.3 0.7 8.0 2.3 10.3 5.7 0.3 0.0 TBA
Career 176 163 114 1094 513 1518 792 266 896 1.0 0.7 6.4 3.3 9.7 5.0 1.7 5.7 2

Notes

  1. ^ The 2020 season was played with 17 home-and-away matches per team (down from 22) and 16-minute quarters with time on (down from 20-minute quarters with time on) due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

References

  1. ^ a b c Player Profile
  2. ^ De Bolfo, Tony. "Locker room history looms for Levi - carltonfc.com.au". carltonfc.com.au. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  3. ^ a b Carlton Football Club 2010 Rookie Draftees Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Sportingpulse statistics for Levi Casboult
  5. ^ Damien Barrett and Neil Wilson (26 December 2009) Carlton faces wrath of AFL over booze incidents
  6. ^ James Campbell (27 December 2009) Lady Luck saved my life says Carlton rookie Levi Casboult
  7. ^ "Blues give rookie Levi Casboult freedom against Western Bulldogs". Herald Sun. 20 July 2012.
  8. ^ Cristian Filippo (19 August 2021). "A better player, person, husband and father: Casboult signs off". Carlton Football Club. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  9. ^ Nick Bowen (4 September 2014). "Blues tie up two more". Carlton Football Club. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
  10. ^ Loretta Johns (8 September 2014). "Vote for Levi!". Carlton Football Club. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  11. ^ Ben Waterworth (3 May 2016). "Levi Casboult set-shot kicking at Carlton takes dive in 2016 AFL season". Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  12. ^ Jon Ralph (5 May 2017). "Levi Casboult has realised goalkicking is about more than physical routine, it's a mental game". Herald Sun. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  13. ^ Pierik, Jon (1 September 2017). "Levi Casboult signs two-year contract extension with Carlton Blues". Brisbane Times. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  14. ^ Sarah Olle (12 June 2019). "AFL 2019: Mark Maclure believes Levi Casboult has prolonged his career with a move into defence". Fox Sports. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  15. ^ Beveridge, Riley (17 August 2021). "Big Blue's last stand: No 2022 contract for key forward". AFL Media. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
  16. ^ "Levi Casboult". AFL Tables. Retrieved 26 June 2017.

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