Would someone please tell me what a "clutch" goal is? Chris Grant and other commentators have been saying it this weekend. Should I be watching more American sports?
Would someone please tell me what a "clutch" goal is? Chris Grant and other commentators have been saying it this weekend. Should I be watching more American sports?
It's a goal kicked when the pressure is on in a game. Say your team has been five goals up and the opposition have kicked the last few to get within a few points then one of the players on your team kicks a goal to grab the momentum back.
That's a clutch goal.
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
Glad "Clunk" has almost disappeared put of the vocab.
I would have called it a crunch goal, thats what it used to be called.
Bring back the biff
The one Roo missed against the swans this week. Set shot. Would've put the saints within a kick. That would've been a clutch goal.
Then again, in a tight final you could argue every goal is a clutch goal.
Also used in basketball -- the ability to hit the 'clutch' shot being a key skill in a sport where it so often comes down to the final shot.
MJ was renown as a gun clutch shooter, ever since he sunk the last basket to win a championship for North Carolina back in his college days.
Basically 'clutch' just means the opposite to 'choke' ie. someone who will rise rather than wilt when the pressure to win the game is on.
Clutch goals can best be defined as the ones we didn't kick in the 2nd halves of the 08 and 09 PF's
There was a thread about this same subject last year, no one seemed to be able to agree if we had anyone with this attribute.
http://www.woof.net.au/forum/showthread.php?t=7753
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I reckon our only clutch goal kicker went when Baz finished... not sure anyone else fits the bill.
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It will be little Dahlhaus.
Bring back the biff