Richo should try a place-kick. No need to guide the ball from hand to foot.
"I understand the place-kick is still legal, so it would come down to a player being confident enough to use it and executing the kick within 30 seconds," Brian Taylor said.
"The reality is it's a more efficient method of goalkicking. The statistics show that. Best AFL goalkicker [Lloyd] is 20 per cent below the best in rugby league, and they kick from angles just as severe as ours.
"And they also kick at a smaller target (rugby league goalposts are 5.5m apart, AFL 6.4m)."
Taylor, who in 1982 kicked 71.25 at 74 per cent when playing for Richmond, said: "By kicking the ball off the ground, you eliminate the greatest cause for kicking error and that's hand to boot. The rugby league guys average around 80 per cent compared to our 63 per cent, and that can be directly attributed to ball drop.
"Every AFL player's accuracy is based on their ball drop, how much distance there is between the guiding hand and the boot, how windy it is, how much the ball moves when dropped.
"We keep saying it's the one area of our game that hasn't improved, and for that reason place-kicking is worth a try.
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