2013 Goalkicker : Sat Nov 17, 2012 3:11 pm  

I see FC says he is undecided on who will kick the goals next year

Whilst Gale kicked really well last season is Foster just a level above him in terms of goalkicking? Nice dilema to have!!!

Re: 2013 Goalkicker : Sat Nov 17, 2012 3:26 pm  

Give them both a go in pre season and see how they go. That said I'd be tempted to have foster kicking. He's very good at kick offs and would take some pressure off gale and let him concentrate on getting us around the park.

Re: 2013 Goalkicker : Sat Nov 17, 2012 4:01 pm  

It's hard to say, going by last year's stats there's not a huge difference in their successful kick percentage, but Gale was hitting about 81% and Foster was about 78%

Re: 2013 Goalkicker : Sat Nov 17, 2012 4:07 pm  

It's great to have two excellent goal kickers, plus we have Sammut who kicked goals last season too.

Re: 2013 Goalkicker : Sat Nov 17, 2012 5:55 pm  

We've got to score tries first

Re: 2013 Goalkicker : Sat Nov 17, 2012 7:56 pm  

roofaldo2 wrote:

It's hard to say, going by last year's stats there's not a huge difference in their successful kick percentage, but Gale was hitting about 81% and Foster was about 78%

Very acceptable percentages from both. Maybe horses for courses. Foster has +15m on Gale in distance.
Certainly an opposition downer when Foster kicks penalties from inside his own half

Re: 2013 Goalkicker : Sat Nov 17, 2012 10:17 pm  

We have four good kickers in the squad in Foster, Gale, Sammat, Addy. Foster is a very good re start kicker too

Re: 2013 Goalkicker : Sun Nov 18, 2012 9:54 am  

staffbull1973 wrote:

We've got to score tries first

Have penalties been outlawed?

[Bulliac]

Re: 2013 Goalkicker : Sun Nov 18, 2012 11:08 am  

mystic eddie wrote:

Have penalties been outlawed?

Lol, a fair point but there has been a definite reduction in the number of goal kicks attempted at penalty situations, even at the Bulls, where we had a reputation of 'taking the two', we seem much more likely to run it than we did before. Of course, when the goal kicker is more reliable then there is maybe a bigger incentive to pop it over.

Re: 2013 Goalkicker : Sun Nov 18, 2012 6:39 pm  

TBF with some of our recent kickers, they weren't allowed to kick at goal from certain positions, for crowd H&S reasons