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Message: [QUOTE="bazza, post: 2749348, member: 8440"] What's your view on the goal kicking then? I'm not sure. Are you in favour of Kahu or are you in favour of Parker? Personally I would persist with Kahu. He has more upside than Parker, provided he receives weekly sessions with a goal kicking coach. Parker received coaching from Halligan if I remember correctly, and Kahu should receive similar coaching. The only issue I see right now with Kahu, is that he doesn't decide to take the kick back to open up the angle. By kicking from just outside the 20m mark, and sometimes inside it, it leaves him with a very acute angle to work with, and it doesn't leave much margin for error. He strikes the ball well, and often it is straight, but with more of an angle to work with, it more than likely won't miss. Right now, he's kicking in the mid to high 70's percentage wise. He only recently became first choice kicker, and that has only been while Parker has supposedly been carrying some sort of foot injury. As far as I know, Kahu wouldn't have been practising one on one with a kicking coach all that much when he hasn't been first choice goal kicker. There's no reason why It can't improve more as the season progresses. I know we've been losing games with some saying goal kicking being the difference in the end, but the way I see it, with our constant knack of exclusively going for penalties, we are limiting any chance of scoring tries. Others may see it differently, but our attack can be great if we let it be. Right now, we're sacrificing try scoring opportunities inside the opposition red zone, for two points instead. If we score more tries, the odd missed goal kick here and there no longer becomes that much of an issue. [/QUOTE]

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