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Message: [QUOTE="Professor47, post: 2427920, member: 1831"] Bingo. As Rocky said, bottom line is - conversions are an external factor. Essentially 'free points' as Rocky put it. Obviously we had some badly missed tackles and bad reads in defense, but that is going to happen. Parker's kicking has come up in this forum before, and has always been a talking point - even a few years ago. Some of us have always been worried it's going to hurt us in a big game one day. It has hurt us in season games quite a few times... the bottom line is, you can't CONFIDENTLY back him... when he has those 'half-in' form the sideline kicks you have to just sort of 'hope' he gets it. It's not a confident backing. I wont go as far as goal kicking was the losing factor but it IS a foreshadowing of the future. I especially hate it when we are up by 2 in games and we score and Parker misses the crucial kick to put us up by 8. This happens ALL THE TIME. As Bull Shark says - goal kicking is a crucial part of the game now. What we have ATM is just not 'comfortable'. As an example, I'll bring up 2006. The Dogs semi game (obviously we eventually won)... I remember SO clearly, we were 22-20 we are on a roll, we score. 26-20 and It's a 'half-in' from the sideline kick. Do-able. You want a goal kicker who you can confidently back in this situation. In the context of the game... 10-15 minutes to go, Semi-final... You get the kick. Someone like JT/Soward... they get this kick. You want your team to be able to confidently nail this kick. That is the bottom line. You shouldn't miss these type of kicks, in these types of games. Parker doesn't have 'it'. I hope I made sense - watched the game at the pub and it was gutting!!!!!! [/QUOTE]

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