Goalkicking!!!

[mightytiges]

Amateur hour again .

Turning things around begins with focusing on what you can control and doing the basics right. After last week to dish up another load of tripe in front of the sticks is unprofessional  .

[Tigeritis™©®]

It’s not just goal kicking. Our skills by hand and foot are below AFL standard. It’s mind boggling how bad it is.

The footy department needs to be held responsible for this mess

[julzqld]

Agree

[TigerLand]

We may officially have the yips. Says a lot about confidence as it does about fitness. Both all time lows since 2016 IMO.

I'll defend the footy department and list managers, even tho they have made plenty of errors back end of the dynasty. The stand rule has absolutely sky rocketed the value of uncontested ball and marks. GC had double at one stage in the 3rd qtr. 120 to 60 uncontested marks or something.

The average game style is now chipping through stand zone til about half way mark and then switching or going through corridor to thrust forward.

We can't defend against it cause we are too slow and not fit enough to match uncontested movement and we can't attack through it cause our foot skills are simply not good enough.

[one-eyed]

A track watcher posted this on a forum after yesterday’s Captain’s run.. nice to see the boys taking goal kicking seriously after it cost us the game last week!! Showed tonight how little we care about set shot kicking and routines etc, just a shambles


https://twitter.com/merrrnique/status/1652614251171946496

[one-eyed]

Compounding Richmond’s situation is that they have kicked more goals than behinds in only one match in the first seven rounds, which unsurprisingly coincided with their sole win.

The Tigers frittered away repeated chances in the first half on Sunday to be 2.9 before Gold Coast swung the match for good with a six-goal-to-two third quarter, something coach Damien Hardwick highlighted afterwards.

“It’s the story of our season – we just can’t get it through the big sticks,” Broad said.

“We’re working hard, we’re training hard, and we’re doing everything right, but they’re just not going through. We’re giving ourselves opportunity to do it, but we need to create easier opportunities and find the best shot at goal.”

Source: The Age.

[one-eyed]

TIGER YIPS

The Tigers’ goalkicking woes are one of many reasons behind their slow start to 2023, with some of their finest stars letting them down in front of the big sticks.

*PLAYER, GOALS, BEHINDS (NO SCORE)*

Noah Cumberland 6.5 (5) -- six goals from 16 shots
Shai Bolton          7.5 (4) -- seven goals from 16 shots
Dustin Martin       4.4 (6) -- four goals from 14 shots
Tim Taranto         2.6 (4) -- two goals from 12 shots
Trent Cotchin       1.1 (4) -- one goal from 6 shots

Source: CHAMPION DATA

https://www.codesports.com.au/afl/afl-2023-what-are-the-roots-of-the-tigers-struggles-in-2023/news-story/6413e8ffc12974bc0a5a919485b6e05c

[mightytiges]

The large number of no scores is the worst part. Some of our misses aren't even close or we can't make the distance from 45-50m out  .

It was mentioned today that Melbourne's forwards were kicking for goal at 80% accuracy and it wasn't as though they were getting easier shots. They are kicking at 80% for shots where the average conversion rate is just 53%.

Clubs that fail to treat goalkicking seriously and professionally deserve to lose games. Right now, we are one of them.

[Andyy]

If you're a forward who can't kick straight you aren't worth a damn.

Goals are hard to come by so even a modest forward needs to be kicking at 60%. Anything more than that is dynamite imo.

[the claw]

We know Cumberland Taranto and Cotchin are iffy no excuse for Bolton or Dusty.

[mightytiges]

Set shots still crap. 4.6 from 20 inside 50s that 2nd quarter. Make it 7.3 and the margin is the 4-5 goals it should be.

[one-eyed]

We still scored less than expected in front of the sticks.

#AFLTigersEagles Final xScores:

RICH 100 from expected 110.5 (+4 rushed)
WCE 58 from expected 76.0 (+0 rushed)



https://twitter.com/AFLxScore/status/1654802970599641090

[mightytiges]

Amateur hour again .

Turning things around begins with focusing on what you can control and doing the basics right. After last week to dish up another load of tripe in front of the sticks is unprofessional  .

Rinse and repeat!  .

You can basically tell this year early on in games if we are going to win or not simply from our goalkicking. No surprise our few wins this year have been when we have actually kicked straight (Adelaide & Geelong). Most of this season we have dished up unprofessional tripe like today . Do we actually have a goalkicking coach because it looks like we now just hope and pray the ball goes straight off the boot rather than follow a consistent proper technique and routine. Jack's miss for instance was simply because he got too close to the man on the mark.

[one-eyed]

Our goalkicking over past two weeks  :

#AFLTigersSwans Final xScores:
RICH 87 from expected 104.6 (+1 rushed)
SYD 73 from expected 70.9 (+2 rushed)



#AFLEaglesTigers Final xScores:
WCE 59 from expected 75.8 (+1 rushed)
RICH 97 from expected 111.5 (+1 rushed)


https://twitter.com/AFLxScore

[one-eyed]

Goalking accuracy in "clutch time" over the past five years

- "Clutch time" defined as a margin of 12 points or less in the final quarter.

The worst offenders

Worst accuracy in clutch time from a minimum of 15 shots.

Player                                    Goals    Shots    Accuracy
Jack Higgins (St Kilda)                4         21          19.0%
Bayley Fritsch (Melbourne)          4         19          21.2%
Shai Bolton (Richmond)              6         25          24.0%
Izak Rankine (Suns, Adelaide)     6         22          27.2%
Kysaiah Pickett (Melbourne)        6         19          32.0%
...
Jack Riewoldt (Richmond)         12         31          38.7%     


ps. Our most accurate kick in "clutch time" was Kane Lambert (6 goals from 8 shots = 75%).




Source: Champion Data

https://www.codesports.com.au/afl/afl-2023-who-kicks-the-clutch-goals-when-they-matter-most-at-every-club/news-story/f0070409b8a0bda37ee3e4ae19fa0e7a