A summer of goalkicking practice

[sharp9]

So yet more evidence that we are stone motherless absolutely last by a country mile when it comes to finding a team mate in space!!!!! Our blokes have neither ther nouse nor teh speed to get free when a team mate has possession hence we kick and hope the majority of the time. From memory we generally won or broke even in contested possession - but got smashed in the uncontested.....especially hard to watch as the good teams time and time again put 5 uncontested possessions through the middle to go from D50 to A50. I broke my hand the 7th or 8th time Hawthorn did that to us.....Man TFU!!!!!

[Hartijon]

Bad kicking is simply bad football. If you can't kick straight or accurately you can't play well.Its not touch football, its football.It is a required skill to kick the ball. You can ponder the stats as much as you like and speculate where and what we could have done if we could kick better. The fact is we didn't kick better.We deserved our position because we didn't play well enough to rise higher.

Improvement can be gained through better technique,repetitive practise and simulation of match conditions.Use of the non preferred foot is essential also. As Reid played all year without anyone fixing up his dodgy technique I am pessimistic about there being any great improvment in our kicking next year.We need a new skills coach I feel as so many playerrs have obvious weaknesses in this area

[Peace]

Is this "48%" ratio for set shots? If not
What is the percentage from set shots at goal? I'm afraid it's going to be worse...?

[top40]

Bad kicking is simply bad football. If you can't kick straight or accurately you can't play well.Its not touch football, its football.It is a required skill to kick the ball. You can ponder the stats as much as you like and speculate where and what we could have done if we could kick better. The fact is we didn't kick better.We deserved our position because we didn't play well enough to rise higher.

Improvement can be gained through better technique,repetitive practise and simulation of match conditions.Use of the non preferred foot is essential also. As Reid played all year without anyone fixing up his dodgy technique I am pessimistic about there being any great improvment in our kicking next year.We need a new skills coach I feel as so many playerrs have obvious weaknesses in this area

I don't think anyone is suggesting that we were 'ripped off' here. They were the 6th best football team and not the 4th for the very reason that they can't kick. Hence why at least Carlton and West Coast were in 2011 better football teams. As I wrote to open this thread, the Football department in the coming months need to prioritize the importance of kicking, rather than a seemingly obsessive approach to extreme fitness. Perhaps Sam Reid is a perfect example;where instead of running 75,000 laps of Centential Park in the summer heat , he runs only 60,000 laps, and spends the rest of the many many hours practicing goal kicking.

[hot potato]

I'd hazard a guess the set shot stats would be ordinary as well. How some players even get to AFL level without being able to kick a footy over a
jam tin, when they have a multitude of coaches, trainers, psychologists, time on their hands, ample videos to watch of how to do it (Dunstall,
Plugger, Lloyd, Davis, Fev, Capper, Milne, Brown, Ablett et all ).
Ablett in particular keeps it so simple, you just know it's not going anywhere but straight. Dont wave the pill from side to side, dont weave around in the run up up, relax your arms, drop it square on your boot with your strong hand, low to the ground and follow thru.... you can practice it anywhere... until it's second nature and you very very rarely stuff it up.

[bandwagon]

Do I recall the Swans having an odd choice for a skills coach last off-season? Was it an Englishman? Or is the early onset Alzheimer's playing tricks with me again?
Nurse!!!

[swans_premiers]

Accuracy proved alot at the back end of the season after Davis came in