Saints kicking !!!!
Moderators: Saintsational Administrators, Saintsational Moderators
-
- Saintsational Legend
- Posts: 4304
- Joined: Fri 17 Nov 2006 1:05am
- Has thanked: 46 times
- Been thanked: 240 times
Saints kicking !!!!
What has been frustrating all year is our terrible kicking skills .
I must have seen at least 50 mongrel punts in todays game , and to have 38 scoring shots in a game and only kick 16 goals is evident of why we are not in the top 4 .
1.6 in the third quarter v richmond
1.6 in the third quarter v north
2.6 in the second quarter v freo
3.7 in the last quarter v swans
When you play against good opposition and don't get the rewards for all that effort , i reckon it saps the confidence of the overall playing group .
I don't know how we can fix it , it just pisses me off !
Next week v the pies we'll probably have around 25 scoring shots , if we kick 15 goals were a good chance however were more likely to kick 15 points !
I must have seen at least 50 mongrel punts in todays game , and to have 38 scoring shots in a game and only kick 16 goals is evident of why we are not in the top 4 .
1.6 in the third quarter v richmond
1.6 in the third quarter v north
2.6 in the second quarter v freo
3.7 in the last quarter v swans
When you play against good opposition and don't get the rewards for all that effort , i reckon it saps the confidence of the overall playing group .
I don't know how we can fix it , it just pisses me off !
Next week v the pies we'll probably have around 25 scoring shots , if we kick 15 goals were a good chance however were more likely to kick 15 points !
In red white and black from 73
-
- Saintsational Legend
- Posts: 25303
- Joined: Tue 01 Feb 2005 4:25pm
- Location: Trump Tower
- Has thanked: 142 times
- Been thanked: 284 times
Re: Saints kicking !!!!
Dropping Wilkes and Saad is a first positive step
i am Melbourne Skies - sometimes Blue Skies, Grey Skies, even Partly Cloudy Skies.
-
- Saintsational Legend
- Posts: 12421
- Joined: Tue 24 Mar 2009 11:05pm
- Location: St Kilda
- Has thanked: 296 times
- Been thanked: 55 times
Re: Saints kicking !!!!
I think you just have to keep fronting up after doing heaps of goal kicking practice and hope it turns. It's a confidence thing so hard to reverse.
-
- SS Life Member
- Posts: 3465
- Joined: Fri 29 Oct 2004 1:01pm
- Has thanked: 91 times
- Been thanked: 162 times
Re: Saints kicking !!!!
We're still the fourth most accurate side in the comp.
Yeah nah pleasing positive
Re: Saints kicking !!!!
Saad and Milne were mostly just unlucky, Some of Wiles, Kosi and Reiwoldts kicks were just diabolical.saintspremiers wrote:Dropping Wilkes and Saad is a first positive step
-
- Saintsational Legend
- Posts: 11540
- Joined: Sun 11 Sep 2011 2:26pm
- Has thanked: 3516 times
- Been thanked: 2464 times
Re: Saints kicking !!!!
You're being very forgiving there on Milney and Saad...Saad sprayed a few sitters and Milne went for impossible angles instead of the percentage play or centering the footy and giving the team a better avenue to goal. Agree that our talls also missed gettable goals.Ice Wolf wrote:Saad and Milne were mostly just unlucky, Some of Wiles, Kosi and Reiwoldts kicks were just diabolical.saintspremiers wrote:Dropping Wilkes and Saad is a first positive step
- ShanghaiSaint
- Club Player
- Posts: 1911
- Joined: Thu 24 Mar 2005 7:43pm
Re: Saints kicking !!!!
while roo showed what a class act he is today, his kicking was just s***. sorry hate to rubbish the champ but it really let him down. what did amaze me was how good he did when he's not dealing with two or three on him!
Fortius Quo Fidelius
- Newman
- Club Player
- Posts: 561
- Joined: Sat 20 Mar 2004 11:01pm
- Location: Brisbane (heart in Melbourne)
- Been thanked: 28 times
- Contact:
Re: Saints kicking !!!!
Gotta agree ShanghaiSaint. Nicks' shots on goal half time were woeful. Didn't matter in the context of this game but I just worry say next week when we play Collingwood and Nick marks in the dying moments and has to kick a goal for a win .... I'm going to be very very nervous.
- widereceiver
- Club Player
- Posts: 701
- Joined: Tue 12 Apr 2005 6:26pm
- Location: near Linton St.
Re: Saints kicking !!!!
WTF were Ch 7 asking Roo about goal kicking on Friday night at half time? He has been a great player for the club but his goal kicking has been woeful for the last 6 or 7 years.
"Winning's not everything, it's the ONLY thing!" Vince Lombardi.
Sam Gilbert #1 booster - always on the attack!!!
Win more for Winmar
Sam Gilbert #1 booster - always on the attack!!!
Win more for Winmar