Both milford and croft seem intent on either bombs when we are in mid field or big looping kicks when seeking territory, which are inevitably caught on the full, for the receiver to run 20-30 metres back because of a poor kick chase. I can only assume this is another coach directive. I think seibold tries to be too smart for his own good. He is probably thinking 'hang time' will give our team time to get down the field and chase, but our kick chase is crap, it gives the receiver more time to get to the ball.
Milfords better kicks have been flatter kicks, his 40 20s have been flat (and prime kicking game was probably 2018 with a different coaching strategy). Crofts kicking game appeared better at melbourne too.
Prime example of the difference between the kick styles/strategy was the parra game. Gutherson caught just about every kick on the full whilst moses used flatter kicks, kicking the ball and rolling it behind oates who would stress about possibly fumbling it and by the time he felt safe to pick it up, parra were there.
Unfortunately i dont think any of our players, including our halves, will reach their potential under seibold.
You mean the same kicking plan that Peter Wallace, Ben Hunt and even Darren Lockyer implemented was Seibold coaching from the future or something
Hell even Moses, DCE and Cleary utilise the same approach to kicking... is Seibold coaching the whole comp now!!
I can't remember how many posts have been done over the years about wishing Hunt would stop lobbing up bombs into the corner
This kick is utilized to trap the opposition in a corner and I'd imagine there is an attempt to kick it only as far as your kick chase is going to get... it's another area the team is lacking in at the moment with basically only the winger, center and backrower chasing kicks through. Compared to the roosters where there is a full defensive line on the kick chase.
Most of the time the low angle driving kicks are done on the back of momentum and at the moment our forward pack is going no where or there isn't enough focus on generating quick ptb's to lay that platform.
I would hardly say that Milf is doing these driving low kicks either... his 40/20's look like lobbed drop punts more than anything, he just has a massive boot on him so it goes a long way. If he had more confidence in his boot he'd be kicking them more regularly.
I would say that I had concerns about Croft's kicking game... but Cronk didn't exactly have a stellar long kick either... it's usually Smith that does the big momentum changing kicks on 3rd tackle to the in goal. Cronk's short kicking game inside the 30m was great, but long kicking for territory and field position, not so great.
In Croft's case he did produce one absolutely perfect kick from about 40 or 50m out which stayed low and curled around the winger to find touch about 2m from the in goal. That is not an easy kick as it occured on 5th tackle so both wingers and the full back were waiting yet he found the grass and curled it around the winger for touch.
To produce that kind of kick he would've had momentum from the previous ptb (something he's not getting a lot of), but I think it shows some potential for a decent kicking game... it also shows that he works on his kicking game as I doubt a low curling banana kick is something that just comes naturally.
I think it is difficult to get a gauge on his kicking game as yet, because we haven't really been in a position where the forward pack is dominating an arm wrestle... even in rounds 1 & 2, it was more back and forth and penalties providing field position. I'll wait to see how his kicking game is going when we have momentum and confidence, and maybe the same 17 on the park several weeks in a row
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