Do we have a dedicated Kicking Coach??

Royston · Post: # 686926Post **Royston** » Tue 16 Dec 2008 10:27pm

Interested if anyone knows if we have a dedicated kicking coach.
It seems to me that our foot skills as a team are lagging the other top line teams and have done so for a number of years.

As proved in our finals series this year, we were eaten up by skillful and creative kicking by the 2 top teams.

With it being such a crucial discipline Iif we don't have a dedicated coach/teacher it is something that needs addressing.

It is good enough to have a tackling coach ehgaged to improve our tackling skills, why not a kicking coach.....

It is more than just technique in my opinion, also thought process and the type of kick to suit the occassion....depth, height, power.

Just my thoughts.

Cheers

True Blue Sainter · Tue 16 Dec 2008 10:47pm

Not sure if we do ... But I think it would be a good idea to employ one. What kind of coaches do you think we could look at?!

Saints Premiers 2008 · Tue 16 Dec 2008 10:48pm

we have terrible skills as a group and its simply not good enough

Beej · Post: # 686956Post **Beej** » Tue 16 Dec 2008 11:23pm

We've just appointed this man. The club believes he'll be able to iron out some of Roo's technical faults.

Pwoit · Post: # 686992Post **Pwoit** » Wed 17 Dec 2008 12:59am

Jason Heatley - Goal Kicking

Nicky Winmar Field Kicking or just get BJ to show how to kick a ball

Saints94 · Post: # 687040Post **Saints94** » Wed 17 Dec 2008 9:27am

Or Nicky Dal

Beej · Post: # 687058Post **Beej** » Wed 17 Dec 2008 9:45am

Pwoit wrote:Jason Heatley - Goal Kicking

Nicky Winmar Field Kicking or just get BJ to show how to kick a ball

Good shout. A BJ would help anyone improve their kicking.

SainterK · Post: # 687063Post **SainterK** » Wed 17 Dec 2008 9:49am

It is surely an area that we need to improve on, especially the accuracy of a lot of our midfielders....

Beekay · Post: # 687103Post **Beekay** » Wed 17 Dec 2008 10:54am

OLB wrote:A BJ would help anyone improve their kicking.

ohwhenthesaints! wrote:It is surely an area that we need to improve on, especially the accuracy of a lot of our midfielders....

SainterK · Post: # 687120Post **SainterK** » Wed 17 Dec 2008 11:06am

What have I said? Our midfield can't improve on their kicking?

Saints94 · Post: # 687122Post **Saints94** » Wed 17 Dec 2008 11:07am

ohwhenthesaints! wrote:What have I said? Our midfield can't improve on their kicking?

Our kicking in our midfield (besides luke ball) is up to standard

SainterK · Post: # 687124Post **SainterK** » Wed 17 Dec 2008 11:10am

They don't go forward and kick goals much (rubs eyes)

Saints94 · Post: # 687127Post **Saints94** » Wed 17 Dec 2008 11:12am

ohwhenthesaints! wrote:They don't go forward and kick goals much (rubs eyes)

Yeah..... but they set them up

SainterK · Post: # 687129Post **SainterK** » Wed 17 Dec 2008 11:14am

OK, fair enough...I guess I have high standards in expecting certain players to be more accurate when they have an attempt at goal

Saints94 · Post: # 687130Post **Saints94** » Wed 17 Dec 2008 11:16am

ohwhenthesaints! wrote:OK, fair enough...I guess I have high standards in expecting certain players to be more accurate when they have an attempt at goal

Yeah.... but you still have a point.....we just need to kick straight

Eastern · Post: # 687138Post **Eastern** » Wed 17 Dec 2008 11:34am

We could always use barks4eva

He's given repetative posts a kicking

He's given Grant Thomas a kicking

He's given Archie Fraser a kicking

He's given the current board a kicking

He's given Belvedere Park a kicking

He's given hitouts to advantage a kicking

He's given rixroxrux a kicking

He's given anyone who disagrees with him a kicking

He's done a lot of kicking.................Hold On

he's not very good at kicking

!!

The Saintsational Man · Wed 17 Dec 2008 12:56pm

Take this photo, stick it on the wall, stare at it for 10 minutes a day, your kicing will improve.....

kalsaint · Post: # 687553Post **kalsaint** » Thu 18 Dec 2008 1:21am

Beekay wrote:
OLB wrote:A BJ would help anyone improve their kicking.

ohwhenthesaints! wrote:It is surely an area that we need to improve on, especially the accuracy of a lot of our midfielders....

No improvement in kicj=king skills is apparent without BJ's involvment in my opinion or an injection of breakaway pace by our midfielders to create time and space. Funny we rejected our best opportunity to do that by not recruiting to achieve this!!!???

tweedaletomanning · Thu 18 Dec 2008 3:17am

The Saintsational Man wrote:Take this photo, stick it on the wall, stare at it for 10 minutes a day, your kicing will improve.....

Brilliant!!

The Saintsational Man · Thu 18 Dec 2008 9:33am

tweedaletomanning wrote:
The Saintsational Man wrote:Take this photo, stick it on the wall, stare at it for 10 minutes a day, your kicing will improve.....

Brilliant!!

He was a brilliant player, when it came to been a forward, possibly the most flawless to ever play the game.

Royston · Post: # 687864Post **Royston** » Thu 18 Dec 2008 9:15pm

homework wrote:
ohwhenthesaints! wrote:What have I said? Our midfield can't improve on their kicking?
Our kicking in our midfield (besides luke ball) is up to standard

Up to what standard?

Even if it was 'up to standard' you can still improve.

Luke Ball & Lenny Hayes, 50% of our A Grade starting mid field are not up to standard.

Also, what about the rest of the ground?

saintspremiers · Thu 18 Dec 2008 10:24pm

Plugger didn't just kick goals all the time.

He "split the middle" - quite literally. It was amazing how straight his kicking was, freakishly so.