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Message: [QUOTE="OXY-351, post: 3350159, member: 2107"] If that's your rationale, I think Halligan had more of an effect on the way the game viewed goal kickers. Kickers were still using sand mounds and some still toe poking until Halligan came in and started using kicking tees and round the corner style kicking (not that he was the first for that style, but he was probably the most accurate up until that point). I'd suggest that Halligan wouldn't have had such a long first grade career if he wasn't such a good kicker. That's how much emphasis had been placed on the importance of turning a try in to 6 points, or being able to kick penalties from anywhere, after he came in and showed everyone what was possible. FTR though, I think El Masri was the better winger, and probably a slightly better goal kicker in the end too. Amazing to think the Bulldogs had Halligan followed by El Masri too (with some overlap in between). That was 15 years of having an ~80% strike rate kicker in your team. Something the broncos could only ever dream of, at a time when the likes of Julian O'Neill, Darren Lockyer, Corey Parker and Mick DeVere kicking (ok, DeVere was reasonable). [/QUOTE]

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