Our set shot goalkicking

[mightytiges]

10 missed set shots! 5 sitters - Richo x2, Hyde x2 and Pettifer plus another five -  Simmonds x2, Richo, Schulz and Tuck. That's 55 points worth plus whatever the Hawks got going coast to coast from the resulting kick-ins!

We got away with it today as we kicked some nice running goals (on ya Razor  ) but sheesh with nine more scoring shots it almost costed us another game! 

 

[Mopsy]

Can't blame the wind
can only be technique

[Razorblade]

Simmonds needs to change his action, he always swings the ball instead of kicking through it!

[Mopsy]

Jack Dyer as he got older and played at full forward or in the pocket invented the drop punt as an accurate kicking style within 30 metres from goal.

The way He held the ball was with the hands evenly spaced and in the centre of the ball which He dropped squarely onto the boot and consequently the ball always spun perfectly end over end and in a straight line for the goals.

Modern day 'goalkickers' hold the ball in all sorts of odd ways and expect to drop it onto their kicking foot accurately and evenly which means that the ball spins off the boot in all sorts of crazy angles of tragectorywith the resultant inaccuracy which is in most instances becoming the norm.

It is all a matter of aerodynamics I guess.