Reiwoldts goal kicking
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Reiwoldts goal kicking
Is it mental? Is it shithouse technique? omeone please shed some light on it. Cant kick em from 30 out near on dead in front REPEATEDLY, but today...will slot one from 45 on a 45 degree abgle when it DOSENT MATTER and the game is completely shot. WTF?! So sick of it. He aint elite while this charade continues.
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Has been incredibly frustrating to observe his kicking go from a dead eye dick in his first 2 or 3 years to what now can only be described as consistantly inconsistant...think that his critical misses along with Kosi have actually changed the course of the clubs fortunes the last 2 year.s....
A major concern and I find it hard to believe there isn't a physical basis to Riewoldts problems...if not get a Plugger, Dunstall or Heatley down there for some urgent readjustment
A major concern and I find it hard to believe there isn't a physical basis to Riewoldts problems...if not get a Plugger, Dunstall or Heatley down there for some urgent readjustment
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Mental.
I'm a massive basketball fan and I've read stories of players who could only shoot 50% from the free throw line and they hired the services of a free throw coach and improved their "In practice" free throw shooting to around 90%.
But.....when they played an actual NBA game they'd still be stuck around 50%.
He needs to find a way to fix it.....and soon.
I'm a massive basketball fan and I've read stories of players who could only shoot 50% from the free throw line and they hired the services of a free throw coach and improved their "In practice" free throw shooting to around 90%.
But.....when they played an actual NBA game they'd still be stuck around 50%.
He needs to find a way to fix it.....and soon.
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Is he injured ?
Has he lost his confidence ?
Why does he no longer chase hard ?
Why doesn't he tackle ?
Either way his value to the team is much diminished at the moment.
I reckon he's performing at about 60%
If he is carrying injuries then give him a few weeks to get right.
If it is just form and confidence, then maybe a few weeks at Casey might do the trick.
I just want to see him playing back at the level he was at last season.
Has he lost his confidence ?
Why does he no longer chase hard ?
Why doesn't he tackle ?
Either way his value to the team is much diminished at the moment.
I reckon he's performing at about 60%
If he is carrying injuries then give him a few weeks to get right.
If it is just form and confidence, then maybe a few weeks at Casey might do the trick.
I just want to see him playing back at the level he was at last season.
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I've always joked about this (while not joking..almost crying) and said we have a bloke on the forward line who is a deadly kick (Gehrig) but can't mark...and another bloke who is a lethal mark...but can't kick goals Ever since he got crunched by the Lions that game....Roo has never been the same!
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Re: Reiwoldts goal kicking
Its technique.iwantmeseats wrote:Is it mental? Is it shithouse technique? omeone please shed some light on it. Cant kick em from 30 out near on dead in front REPEATEDLY, but today...will slot one from 45 on a 45 degree abgle when it DOSENT MATTER and the game is completely shot. WTF?! So sick of it. He aint elite while this charade continues.
They are pathetic, even when going through the middle.
Stabs at it, doesn't kick through the ball, it travels on an angle spinning overly fast.....And they just clear the line.
Its all within his run up, and release...nothing smooth about it.
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Re: Reiwoldts goal kicking
Absolutely makes you cry with frustration doesn''t it?iwantmeseats wrote:Is it mental? Is it shithouse technique? omeone please shed some light on it. Cant kick em from 30 out near on dead in front REPEATEDLY, but today...will slot one from 45 on a 45 degree abgle when it DOSENT MATTER and the game is completely shot. WTF?! So sick of it. He aint elite while this charade continues.
Last week Kosi takes a mark in front inside 50 right at the top of the game and a woeful kick hits the bloody behind post. This week Roo completely wastes two at the top of the game. When it really matters and the pressure is on, neither of them can kick for peanuts. It's like a lucky dip.
It sets a tone for the game and from our club's leaders I expect better. Simply not up to scratch. But why oh why can't they improve? This has been going on for way too long.
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It is mental and Technique.
Technically the ball swings like a pendulum as he runs in to kick. Drops the ball from too high. Contact is never the same for any kick as it was for the previous kick. Then the inconsistency in his kicking puts self doubt in which then makes him nervous of kicking at goals. Point in case - took a make Docklands side of the ground in the 3rd quarter 45degrees 50m out should be a soda for a true goal kicking forward but he hand balled off to Gram who blazed away from 50m and missed. Not what you want your spearhead doing.
Technically the ball swings like a pendulum as he runs in to kick. Drops the ball from too high. Contact is never the same for any kick as it was for the previous kick. Then the inconsistency in his kicking puts self doubt in which then makes him nervous of kicking at goals. Point in case - took a make Docklands side of the ground in the 3rd quarter 45degrees 50m out should be a soda for a true goal kicking forward but he hand balled off to Gram who blazed away from 50m and missed. Not what you want your spearhead doing.
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Yep, that's definitely one of his key technical issues. His action is not repeatable and therefore not consistent. By contrast, watch Fevola's approach to kick. He looks exactly the same every time he kicks for goal and is by consequence very reliably.redwhite&blackblood wrote:Technically the ball swings like a pendulum as he runs in to kick. Drops the ball from too high. Contact is never the same for any kick as it was for the previous kick.
On the mental aspect, Nick seems to struggle to kick goals when it "matters". He kicks them early on and he kicks them late (when the contest is all but over) but misses easy shots in the 2nd and 3rd quarter when the game is there to be won.
Lastly he's also taking many of his shots from our wide on the flanks. I'd love to see a "heat track" on where Riewoldt takes his marks and shots on goal because it seems to me he's always leading wide and never up the cuts. As a result, he's always shooting acroos the face of goal rather than leading up the ground and taking shots from straight in front.
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that photo says it all.
ive got a couple of cards from a year or so ago and the roo and kozi ones have them in the middle of a kicking action........both of them drop the ball and their arms go straight out to a horizontal position beside their bodies.
there is no guidance of the cherry to the foot what so ever....
every now and then its gonna land on the boot correctly, but the %age chances of this are slim.....which we can see from the kicking from BOTH these guys as of late.
what im stumped over is that its so bloody obvious that even we can see it, yet each and every week the kicking style is the same and so are the results.
i mean...wtf is going on here...this issue hasnt been addressed???.
everyone seems to pay out fevs way of holding the cherry when he is taking a set shot (the left hand much higher than the right)...but he has worked on his technique, and found something that has worked for HIM...and look at the results.
ive got a couple of cards from a year or so ago and the roo and kozi ones have them in the middle of a kicking action........both of them drop the ball and their arms go straight out to a horizontal position beside their bodies.
there is no guidance of the cherry to the foot what so ever....
every now and then its gonna land on the boot correctly, but the %age chances of this are slim.....which we can see from the kicking from BOTH these guys as of late.
what im stumped over is that its so bloody obvious that even we can see it, yet each and every week the kicking style is the same and so are the results.
i mean...wtf is going on here...this issue hasnt been addressed???.
everyone seems to pay out fevs way of holding the cherry when he is taking a set shot (the left hand much higher than the right)...but he has worked on his technique, and found something that has worked for HIM...and look at the results.