Adam Goodes - kicking distance

[Skeparovic]

So the last five games the double brownlow medallist (and total swans champion) Goodesy has passed off every set shot opportunity. He used to have shots outside 50metres. My question is how close does Adam have to be to goals before he will actually have a shot? My guess is 30 metres...

[Matt80]

So the last five games the double brownlow medallist (and total swans champion) Goodesy has passed off every set shot opportunity. He used to have shots outside 50metres. My question is how close does Adam have to be to goals before he will actually have a shot? My guess is 30 metres...

Maybe this is what he is talking about when he says that there are some things he can't do. His first possession in his comeback game was a long shot from 55m, but he has not tried it since.

[Skeparovic]

Yay Adam kicked a goal from a set shot in 2014. So he probably kicked goal from 15m in and it travelled 30m behind goals so 40-45m distance???

[barry]

40 metres is about his limit. His kicks around the ground are about that.

[Legs Akimbo]

Can't really be critical, but I he's doing everything with restricted movement. He seems to pull out of a lot of contests and his 1%ers are...lacking. But...

[Ludwig]

Goodes is such a smart and creative player, you have to double his possession count to get a better reflection of his contribution.

Can't understand why Reg is so clean in the wet, but so fumbley when it's dry. Reg and all the defenders were very good today.

[stellation]

Goodes is such a smart and creative player, you have to double his possession count to get a better reflection of his contribution.

Can't understand why Reg is so clean in the wet, but so fumbley when it's dry. Reg and all the defenders were very good today.

Davo was so smart you had to quadruple his. Robbed of many a Brownlow.

[AnnieH]

I just need Goodesy to kick a scrubby little goal when needed, like the one he kicked in the 2012 granny!!

He's an old man... don't expect 50 metre bombs from him.

[Melbournehammer]

I barely expect much anymore. Absent some sort of cloning arrangement to replace his legs it is his last season. He is managing a goal or two from forward fifty stoppages and the occasional cheapie running past the contest.

Like Judd and brown and ball and riewoldt and Hayes - the whole generation who started around the millennium their bodies are all just failing them and their ability to impact games are now cameo like rather than significant.

It is my hope that goodes will rage against the dying of the light all the way through to the last sat in September.

[tasmania60]

Respect the time left by probably the best and most decorated indigenous player in Afl / Vfl people he has slowed down cant kick as far barely run out games .But in this years grand final whose going to stop him !

[frankee]

I swear he is just trying to give his mates goals.

[Big Al]

With his knees I'm assuming if he tries to kick over 50m his leg would fly off and go further than the ball. The old fella is doing alright.

Can't say the same for the boring flogs who continue to boo him. Arseholes

[Go Swannies]

His knee is completely stuffed and the doctors didn't think he'd play a game this year. And he has always pulled out of contests (well the last 10 years anyway) - and I'm guessing that's on the coaches instructions to preserve him - except for the Goodes-the-battering-ram in the dying stages of the 2012 GF. But he's definitely in our best 22 because of his footy smarts - and probably would be if he was playing on crutches.

[Melb Blood Bro]

I've noticed that whenever he kicks he kicks with a bent leg. Anyone else noticed this?

[mcs]

I barely expect much anymore. Absent some sort of cloning arrangement to replace his legs it is his last season. He is managing a goal or two from forward fifty stoppages and the occasional cheapie running past the contest.

Like Judd and brown and ball and riewoldt and Hayes - the whole generation who started around the millennium their bodies are all just failing them and their ability to impact games are now cameo like rather than significant.

It is my hope that goodes will rage against the dying of the light all the way through to the last sat in September.

There is little doubt his body is really limiting him.

But you just know, if it comes down to a crunch moment in a big game this year (lets hope its the last dance) and we need a hero - it will be one A Goodes that stands up. He did it in 2012, no reason why he won't do it in 2014 if called upon. You can see the fire still burns bright, but the body is not allowing him to do what he once could. The hope of becoming a dual brownlow medallist combined with a triple premiership player is what is driving him for one final push.

Every week that passes though suggests to me we will not see him playing in 2015 though - I just can't see how he will go on.