Best & Worst Field Kick?
Moderators: Saintsational Administrators, Saintsational Moderators
- SaintWodonga
- Club Player
- Posts: 1868
- Joined: Wed 04 Jul 2007 12:01am
- Location: Wodonga
- Contact:
Best & Worst Field Kick?
This NOT about kicking for goal.
Who do you rate as our best and worst in general play?
Best = BJ
Worst = Jones
Who do you rate as our best and worst in general play?
Best = BJ
Worst = Jones
- Dr Spaceman
- Saintsational Legend
- Posts: 14102
- Joined: Thu 24 Sep 2009 11:07pm
- Location: Newtown Institute of Saintology
- Has thanked: 104 times
- Been thanked: 62 times
Re: Best & Worst Field Kick?
I suspect you're right so this should be a very short threadSaintWodonga wrote:This NOT about kicking for goal.
Who do you rate as our best and worst in general play?
Best = BJ
Worst = Jones
-
- Saintsational Legend
- Posts: 6043
- Joined: Mon 21 May 2007 5:31pm
- Location: Currumbin, Quoinslairnd
I think Jones LOOKS bad, but I reckon Gilbert's the worst easily. Just as well he's a gun at everything else! Imagine what he could be...
"The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break in the game. Every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when we add up all those inches that's gonna make the f***in' difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying!'
-
- SS Hall of Fame
- Posts: 2154
- Joined: Mon 06 Aug 2007 1:53pm
- Location: SE Queensland
- Has thanked: 30 times
- Been thanked: 16 times
- Life Long Saint
- Saintsational Legend
- Posts: 5533
- Joined: Tue 09 Mar 2004 12:54pm
- Has thanked: 62 times
- Been thanked: 483 times
- Contact:
- Life Long Saint
- Saintsational Legend
- Posts: 5533
- Joined: Tue 09 Mar 2004 12:54pm
- Has thanked: 62 times
- Been thanked: 483 times
- Contact:
- ThePunter
- Club Player
- Posts: 742
- Joined: Mon 16 Jun 2008 12:43pm
- Location: Level 2 Half Forward Flank Lockett End
- Contact:
Gilbert gets a pass mark for me because at least he's ambitious with his kicking.
We have too many players who aren't at all ambitious with their kicking. Jones, Baker, Ray (who never even kicks it forwards), Blake, and to a lesser extent McQualter are all safe kicks rather than ambitious kicks.
The best field kicks would be Goddard, Dal Santo & Gwilt.
We have too many players who aren't at all ambitious with their kicking. Jones, Baker, Ray (who never even kicks it forwards), Blake, and to a lesser extent McQualter are all safe kicks rather than ambitious kicks.
The best field kicks would be Goddard, Dal Santo & Gwilt.
- skeptic
- Saintsational Legend
- Posts: 17024
- Joined: Wed 10 Mar 2004 7:10pm
- Has thanked: 3645 times
- Been thanked: 2916 times
Gram's kicking looks worst than it is IMO because of the options he picks.
Has a tendency to bomb it long to where opposition have numbers
Jones really brought the helicopter lick into his game from about the 1/2way point of the year.
Under pressure, he tries to kick it long but the ball just seems to go up
Peake can be kind of ordinary too when he doesn't have much time
Hard to make an argument that anyone is better than Goddard.
Gwilt is certainly one you would back. Very composed under pressure, very little risk to his kicking.
In field play, Riewoldt is quite a good kick too.
Has a tendency to bomb it long to where opposition have numbers
Jones really brought the helicopter lick into his game from about the 1/2way point of the year.
Under pressure, he tries to kick it long but the ball just seems to go up
Peake can be kind of ordinary too when he doesn't have much time
Hard to make an argument that anyone is better than Goddard.
Gwilt is certainly one you would back. Very composed under pressure, very little risk to his kicking.
In field play, Riewoldt is quite a good kick too.
- Dr Spaceman
- Saintsational Legend
- Posts: 14102
- Joined: Thu 24 Sep 2009 11:07pm
- Location: Newtown Institute of Saintology
- Has thanked: 104 times
- Been thanked: 62 times
- Dr Spaceman
- Saintsational Legend
- Posts: 14102
- Joined: Thu 24 Sep 2009 11:07pm
- Location: Newtown Institute of Saintology
- Has thanked: 104 times
- Been thanked: 62 times
-
- Saintsational Legend
- Posts: 9142
- Joined: Wed 29 Jun 2005 10:39pm
- Location: A distant beach
- Has thanked: 1 time
- Been thanked: 437 times
Best field kick between Goddard and Gwilt and Montagna..if you count hitting a target (not the opposition or out of bounds) with a long kick as the criteria. Bad is a juggle between many of the other senior players..Gilbert, Peake, Roo, Jones, the delisted Eddy. Thats why RL has made comments about improving skills -field kicking being a big worry IMHO
- Con Gorozidis
- Saintsational Legend
- Posts: 23532
- Joined: Thu 19 Jun 2008 4:04pm
- Has thanked: 100 times
- Been thanked: 78 times
so whats ur point? hes miles from the best and miles from the worst.St Lenny wrote:Roo worked alot on his kicking last summer and was doing beautifully till he got injured. Im predicting a massive improvement from him next year.
i agree BJ is the best. But farren ray is also an outstanding field kick.
gram and peake are absolutely terrible. some of the kicks they serve up under no pressure at all beggars belief.
- Eastern
- Saintsational Legend
- Posts: 14357
- Joined: Tue 09 Mar 2004 1:46pm
- Location: 3132
- Been thanked: 1 time
Goddard = Best in Comp. Best ever saint
Now for the poorest ever saint
He would have to be a ranga
He would have to have worn #34
He would have to have left the club, only to return
Jayson (JACK) Daniels
None of the current crop will rival our Jack !!
Now for the poorest ever saint
He would have to be a ranga
He would have to have worn #34
He would have to have left the club, only to return
Jayson (JACK) Daniels
None of the current crop will rival our Jack !!
NEW scarf signature (hopefully with correct spelling) will be here as soon as it arrives !!
- Dr Spaceman
- Saintsational Legend
- Posts: 14102
- Joined: Thu 24 Sep 2009 11:07pm
- Location: Newtown Institute of Saintology
- Has thanked: 104 times
- Been thanked: 62 times
Agree totally.Eastern wrote:Goddard = Best in Comp. Best ever saint
Now for the poorest ever saint
He would have to be a ranga
He would have to have worn #34
He would have to have left the club, only to return
Jayson (JACK) Daniels
None of the current crop will rival our Jack !!
Jayson Daniels - The Gold Medalist of Bad Kicking
- Enrico_Misso
- Saintsational Legend
- Posts: 11662
- Joined: Tue 13 Jun 2006 12:11am
- Location: Moorabbin Chapter of The Royal Society of Hagiographers
- Has thanked: 315 times
- Been thanked: 720 times
What about Travis Bongo Payze?Dr Spaceman wrote:Agree totally.Eastern wrote:Goddard = Best in Comp. Best ever saint
Now for the poorest ever saint
He would have to be a ranga
He would have to have worn #34
He would have to have left the club, only to return
Jayson (JACK) Daniels
None of the current crop will rival our Jack !!
Jayson Daniels - The Gold Medalist of Bad Kicking
The rest of Australia can wander mask-free, socialise, eat out, no curfews, no zoning, no police rings of steel, no illogical inconsistent rules.
They can even WATCH LIVE FOOTY!
They can even WATCH LIVE FOOTY!
- Dr Spaceman
- Saintsational Legend
- Posts: 14102
- Joined: Thu 24 Sep 2009 11:07pm
- Location: Newtown Institute of Saintology
- Has thanked: 104 times
- Been thanked: 62 times
Difficult to line up players from different eras but you're right, The Prez would have been on the podium somewhereEnrico_Misso wrote:What about Travis Bongo Payze?Dr Spaceman wrote:Agree totally.Eastern wrote:Goddard = Best in Comp. Best ever saint
Now for the poorest ever saint
He would have to be a ranga
He would have to have worn #34
He would have to have left the club, only to return
Jayson (JACK) Daniels
None of the current crop will rival our Jack !!
Jayson Daniels - The Gold Medalist of Bad Kicking
-
- Saintsational Legend
- Posts: 11351
- Joined: Thu 11 Mar 2004 12:57am
- Location: South of Heaven
- Has thanked: 1344 times
- Been thanked: 459 times
Agree. Gilbo's finishing was pretty bad, particularly in GF2. It may just be a matter of confidence though. His mechanics don't look all that bad.Thinline wrote:I think Jones LOOKS bad, but I reckon Gilbert's the worst easily. Just as well he's a gun at everything else! Imagine what he could be...
Curb your enthusiasm - you’re a St.Kilda supporter!!
Can anyone upload kicking efficiency stats?
They rate 75 percent as being ok but really depends on where the kick is on the field. We all know Grams kicking is terrible, however as he kicks into forward line Riewoldt will run hard to make it look good. I think they class a bad kick as 2 metres from target but if u have a gut runner marking the ball it flatters grams kicking
They rate 75 percent as being ok but really depends on where the kick is on the field. We all know Grams kicking is terrible, however as he kicks into forward line Riewoldt will run hard to make it look good. I think they class a bad kick as 2 metres from target but if u have a gut runner marking the ball it flatters grams kicking
Carn Saints
- borderbarry
- Saintsational Legend
- Posts: 6676
- Joined: Mon 19 Apr 2004 11:22pm
- Location: Wodonga
- Con Gorozidis
- Saintsational Legend
- Posts: 23532
- Joined: Thu 19 Jun 2008 4:04pm
- Has thanked: 100 times
- Been thanked: 78 times