Re: Kick offs : Tue Jun 10, 2014 1:38 pm  

We need more practice at short kick-offs as well. Those two we did were terrible.

As teams generally only try short restarts when they're chasing the game, practice should be available most matches.

[Bulliac]

Re: Kick offs : Tue Jun 10, 2014 2:54 pm  

We got plenty of chance against Wigan, IIRC but we continued the policy of kicking it to exactly the same bloke standing in the same place on the goal line.

Re: Kick offs : Tue Jun 10, 2014 3:06 pm  

Bulliac wrote:

We got plenty of chance against Wigan, IIRC but we continued the policy of kicking it to exactly the same bloke standing in the same place on the goal line.

So, repetitive accuracy must be at least a start .. right?

Re: Kick offs : Tue Jun 10, 2014 3:35 pm  

So why always the left side? It'll either be caught, or will bounce with a chance of going into touch or we'll kick it straight out on the full.

Why not down the centre? Those same 3 options above PLUS - bonus option of hitting the posts!

At the very least it'll improve our chances from 1:3 kicking out on the full to 1:4!!









Say it really fast to yourself, it'll be fine.....

Re: Kick offs : Tue Jun 10, 2014 4:22 pm  

I could place a hanky on the turf at Odsal and wager that Gaskell or Foster would be within 2 yards of it. Every kick off they do is slightly to their left and about ten yards from the line - in other words, straight to their scrum half.

It couldn't have less variety if they tried

Mind you, the feeble attempts at short kick offs on Sunday didn't exactly work out as a decent variation....

Re: Kick offs : Tue Jun 10, 2014 11:01 pm  

paulwalker71 wrote:

I could place a hanky on the turf at Odsal and wager that Gaskell or Foster would be within 2 yards of it. ....

That snot fair.

Re: Kick offs : Wed Jun 11, 2014 7:18 am  

Should it be kicks off?

[Bulliac]

Re: Kick offs : Wed Jun 11, 2014 9:00 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

So, repetitive accuracy must be at least a start .. right?

Well, it was certainly the safe option!! When you're as far behind as we got in that game though, I'd have thought trying something different on the kick off would have been the very least they could have done, I mean, I'd got beyond expecting them to tackle or anything daft like that.... I think their collective mind was too much in shock to to think strait, to be honest.