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Goal kicker for the finals?

  • Crichton

    Votes: 52 71.2%

  • Burton

    Votes: 21 28.8%
  • Total voters
    73
axeman23 said:
Depends which sideline for me. Have one kick left side, the 0ther right side, each t0 their strengths.
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I once coached a junior team that had both a left foot and a right foot goal kicker. They kicked from their more favoured side of the field and alternated between kicks from in front.

In the GF we were 6 points in front with 3 minutes to go, and received a penalty well within range midway between the corner post and the uprights on the right hand side the left foot kicker nailed it to get us home.

I‘m surprised NRL teams don’t seem to have this option.

Back in the 70’s and 80 there was a guy named Mike Eden who played for Manly and then the Roosters who was ambipedestros. He kicked from the left with the right foot, and from the right with the left foot. Other than that he was an average player.
 
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LeeroyJenkins said:
His ball striking has turned to shit in the last month or so, idk why he changed it.
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I think it would have something to do with weather the way he changed it. like you change your footing and the way you make contact with the ball in bad condition so you don’t lose your footing he was hitting them perfect before that. It will come back to him.
 
gbrussell said:
I once coached a junior team that had both a left foot and a right foot goal kicker. They kicked from their more favoured side of the field and alternated between kicks from in front.

In the GF we were 6 points in front with 3 minutes to go, and received a penalty well within range midway between the corner post and the uprights on the right hand side the left foot kicker nailed it to get us home.

I‘m surprised NRL teams don’t seem to have this option.
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We have 2 x left foot kickers in Crichton and Burton which is bit unusual, something like 80% of goal kickers are right footed.


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Critta looked much better than Burto when he took over afew weeks ago, but last couple of weeks his kicks have barely made the posts.

If the kick is from right side, Critta probably better for all but the sidelines ones or into the wind.

If the kick is from the left, we should just decline the kick and wait for the kick-off.

Maybe Sitili can do better than both the above guys coz they are both diabolical from the left.

Burton at least gets the ball to the posts. He just has to aim 2m left of left post and kick through it.
 
Game on the line critta will take the tap,
Burto has done it before.
 
Marki said:
Critta looked much better than Burto when he took over afew weeks ago, but last couple of weeks his kicks have barely made the posts.

If the kick is from right side, Critta probably better for all but the sidelines ones or into the wind.

If the kick is from the left, we should just decline the kick and wait for the kick-off.

Maybe Sitili can do better than both the above guys coz they are both diabolical from the left.

Burton at least gets the ball to the posts. He just has to aim 2m left of left post and kick through it.
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We just flat out do not have a great kicker we are debating about which version of 70-72% do you want? I’d probably keep Crighton only as Burton can talk to the troops while he does that, and you really are no better either way who kicks
 
Hard to call. Both have great games, and games with no boots on.
 
gbrussell said:
I once coached a junior team that had both a left foot and a right foot goal kicker. They kicked from their more favoured side of the field and alternated between kicks from in front.

In the GF we were 6 points in front with 3 minutes to go, and received a penalty well within range midway between the corner post and the uprights on the right hand side the left foot kicker nailed it to get us home.

I‘m surprised NRL teams don’t seem to have this option.

Back in the 70’s and 80 there was a guy named Mike Eden who played for Manly and then the Roosters who was ambipedestros. He kicked from the left with the right foot, and from the right with the left foot. Other than that he was an average player.
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Eden was good one of original round corner kickers
 
Yeah not overly confident every time there is a kick away from right in front Burton and Critta are both hot and cold kickers until a better kicker comes along score trys within 15 mts from the posts
 
BoneDog said:
I hope they are getting El Magic or Superboot Halligan to coach Critta and Burto on goal kicks. They just need a bit of fine tuning IMO.


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Both left footers I’d be getting Cam Smith out there
 
From centre stage to right side of the field give it to Critta. Left of the up right pass the ball to Burton. That way none of them will feel the pressure.
 
Similar pressure relief in 1987 when Don Furner asked Wayne Bennet to co-coach the Canberra Raiders. There was one particular match where the Raiders were leading at half time, then got flogged in the second half. At the press conference after the match Mr Furner was asked what happened in that second half? Don answered 'well I coached them in the first half and Wayne in the second.
 
Bullfrog2 said:
Hard to split mate, but when Parramatta raided our 1995 premiership winning team and Halligan had the weight of the bulldogs world on his back in a semifinal in 1998 two points behind with a minutes left on the clock, he nailed it.
Yes, Haza kicked better goals, 2 x that remain in my mind, Newcastle game and the one at Shark park in the wind.
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He rushed the previous kick and missed. Polla-Mounter almost iced it for us with a long range field goal that just sailed under the crossbar. So, there were two kicks that could have avoided the extra time.
Great game, though.
 
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