Watching a replay of Geelong v Melbourne from 1994 on Fox at the moment. Like all these old replays, the goal kicking is superb, you can bank almost all the forwards getting the goal from set shots from any angle as far as 50-55m. Just goes to show that as the game went on, more emphasis has been put into recruiting athletes first, and pure footballers second. Wasn't part the reason Ellis slipped from being a top 10 prospect was because he was off the pace on the 25m sprint by a fraction of a second or something? I know the players say they get in shots at training, but they need some solid chunks of shots on goal. Even the techniques are rooted. I remember as a junior and going to a Roger Merrett training camp one summer in the 90s, they picked apart our kicking action, and from then on all those who attended were ripper kicks on goal when they went back to their clubs. Where has this skill gone? Now we see blokes (lol Jack) trying to banana from a weak angle 40m out, dropping their shoulder, holding the ball crooked, dropping the ball from too high, kicking off the line, kicking their leg through on an angle, etc etc.
