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Unless you are a naturalFawdoffshed wrote:Agreed. Practising hour after hour with no-one telling you what is wrong is useless.nathan_rugby wrote:If somebody has a very bad kicking technique then hours and hours of practice is not going to reach that persons potential.
Remember playing cricket one afternoon on Robin Park just after we'd signed Botica. He spent hours on the next field kicking goal after goal on his tod.Fawdoffshed wrote:Many seasons ago I was walking near to Central Park and saw a lone person kicking dozens of balls, all lined up, in the pouring rain, forever replacing them and kicking again and again and again.
The name of that lone person?
Mr. Frano Botica.
Therefore, I agree with DaveO that practice, practice, practice is basically at the heart of a kicker who wants to be simply the best.
As Botica was. Richards, too, was quite sublime considering the nightmare start he had to his goal-kicking career.
Even naturals have to develop their skill.shaunedwardsfanclub wrote:Unless you are a naturalFawdoffshed wrote:Agreed. Practising hour after hour with no-one telling you what is wrong is useless.nathan_rugby wrote:If somebody has a very bad kicking technique then hours and hours of practice is not going to reach that persons potential.
It was a tongue in cheek comment. After saying that the best kicker I ever saw played in the same team as me at amateur level and he got zilch coaching.jobo wrote:Even naturals have to develop their skill.shaunedwardsfanclub wrote:Unless you are a naturalFawdoffshed wrote:Agreed. Practising hour after hour with no-one telling you what is wrong is useless.
At academy level, Andy Farrell wasn't the team kicker, yet for the first team, he looked a natural.
+1Seinfeld79 wrote:Funny how there are many posts that are critical of the place-kicking at the club; they then do something that on the face of it appears to be addressing the issue and even this is wrong. I don't recall too many posters suggesting that signing a kicking coach was a bad idea yet as soon as one is appointed it is seen by some as a negative or not worth it.
+1 more!Wes wrote:+1Seinfeld79 wrote:Funny how there are many posts that are critical of the place-kicking at the club; they then do something that on the face of it appears to be addressing the issue and even this is wrong. I don't recall too many posters suggesting that signing a kicking coach was a bad idea yet as soon as one is appointed it is seen by some as a negative or not worth it.