Bulldog Inaccuracy

[Mofra]

Re: Bulldog Inaccuracy

Ozza, very good observation. Luke Darcy used to have the same fast spinning motion in his ball trajectory. Luke was not a long kick either, but was reliable in front of goals. Surely we have some physicists amongst the ranks who can tell us why an oval shaped ball will travel further if it has less rotations in it's flight path!!

Don't need to be a physicist - the lower on the ball you kick it, the more force is being used to spin the ball on its axis and the less being used to force it forward, as the centre of gravity should be in the centre of the ball.

[becmatty]

Re: Bulldog Inaccuracy

Can't agree a premiership window will be lost due to inaccuracy in front of goal. Premiership window will be lost if we don't win games.

Care to retract that phrase?

Nailing some very gettable shots again has cost us the four points. In such a close competition, a sprayed goal will enevitably be the difference between top four and 'irrelevant other'.

We need to make the most of opportunities infront of goal, such as Grant's set shot miss in the third quarter, Griff's set shot (where his approach was not straight at the target, but an arc to the right resulting in a sling kick), Hall in the 1st quarter within range and he tugged it on the full, Gia in the first quarter who hit the post after a similar approach to Griff.

If we had kicked one of those, the result was likely to be in our favour. Dammit.

[Ghost Dog]

Re: Bulldog Inaccuracy

There are a few old sayings that I recall my Dad using....."bad kicking is bad football" which I think probably still rings true to this day!

Take this quote and print it on two gigantic banners with 20 ft type.
Make the players run through them. Once at the start of the game and another at half time.