Hunt Signs with St George Illawarra

[mitch222]

No, but I can assure you it won't be big enough that you can afford to pay one player 6 million a year.

Not even Thurston would be worth 80% of the salary cap

 

[Unbreakable]

No, but I can assure you it won't be big enough that you can afford to pay one player 6 million a year.

Good lord, who suggested that?

 

[Morepudding]

Okay so when i did my count of grubber kicks only, I had the following results. Hunt did better than I thought, but still a lot more kicks found legs than with Milford, which is worrying when Milford is the 'less experienced' kicker.

 

[Morepudding]

Also, the couple 1-5m miss kick grubber kicks that ben hunt did that trickled over the sideline were countered in the 'No Legs' section.

 

[Super Freak]

How did you get 11 from grubbers?

Please state which kicks you're referring to.

 

[Morepudding]

How did you get 11 from grubbers?

Please state which kicks you're referring to.

Hunt had 12 grubber kicks hit opposition legs (1 of which he regathered). Milford had 7 kicks hit opposition legs (1 of which he regathered). I counted all grubber style kicks (meaning low trajectory and hitting the ground almost immediately) from the video you uploaded.

 

[Super Freak]

Hunt had 12 grubber kicks hit opposition legs (1 of which he regathered). Milford had 7 kicks hit opposition legs (1 of which he regathered). I counted all grubber style kicks (meaning low trajectory and hitting the ground almost immediately) from the video you uploaded.

I would like to know which grubbers you are referring to. Who was the opposition, when was the kick..

I counted the grubbers, and I didn't get 11.

 

[Morepudding]

And I would like to know which grubbers hit the legs.

I counted the grubbers, and I didn't get 11. I got 11 all up from all of the kicks, not all of the ones that hit the legs were grubbers.

The kicks hit legs immediately and i think all of them were below the knee. Fairly sure they were grubbers and not bombs... If you're finding legs immediately without doing a grubber then there's something seriously wrong with your kicking tactics. Moral of the story is of Hunt's 35 grubber style kicks, 12 of them found legs and 6 went dead in goal. Of Milford's 38 Grubber style kicks, 7 found legs and 1 went dead in goal.

 

[Morepudding]

Grubbers into legs: (on closer look I see some were not typical 'grubbers' but they were kicks that would never have elevated above hip height so still low trajectory / longer range grubber style kicks)

Hunt Timestamps: 0:50, 1:10, 3:04, 7:50, 8:52, 12:52, 13:00, 13:18, 14:31, 15:14 (Regathers), 15:57, 16:57

Milford Timestamps: 1:29, 2:05, 8:13, 8:19, 11:41, 12:38, 17:12 (regathers)

 

[Super Freak]

0:50 - That one didn't hit the legs of the opposition. It didn't hit anyone. It was a miskick by Hunt which went sideways.

12:52 - That didn't hit anyone. He miskicked it because of the tackle of Napa and as a result the trajectory of the ball changed, but it didn't hit the legs of Cordner.

15:14 - That didn't hit the legs. It bounced up and hit the hand of Mbye who tried to gather it.

15:57 - Went through the legs of McLean.

 

[Super Freak]

11:59, 16:38

A couple you missed from Milford.

 

[Morepudding]

0:50 - That one didn't hit the legs of the opposition. It didn't hit anyone. It was a miskick by Hunt which went sideways.

12:52 - That didn't hit anyone. He miskicked it because of the tackle of Napa and as a result the trajectory of the ball changed, but it didn't hit the legs of Cordner.

15:14 - That didn't hit the legs. It bounced up and hit the hand of Mbye who tried to gather it.

15:57 - Went through the legs of McLean.

Yep right about 0:50, just an absolutely woeful kick. 12:52 definitely hits napa, can both hear it and see the trajectory change, so either way, still a kick in to the legs. 15:14 yep you are correct, i thought it hit Mbye before bouncing up, still a bad kick though. 15:57 I can't quite make it out but if that didn't hit Mcleans legs it is possibly the worst kick of all time.

You really gotta stop with this love obsession with Hunt, if you can't see that he either finds legs or kicks the ball so poorly it travels less than a metre, you 'have your eyes painted on' as the great vossy would say.

 

[Morepudding]

11:59, 16:38

A couple you missed from Milford.

Yep didn't realise the 11:59 one and i thought the 16:38 was a knock on. But they got the ball back at least. I'm not saying Milford is the best kicker, but Hunt is meant to be the dominant kicker and more experienced half and judging from your video he is arguably worse than milford. That just isn't good enough at 26...

 

[Super Freak]

Yep right about 0:50, just an absolutely woeful kick. 12:52 definitely hits napa, can both hear it and see the trajectory change, so either way, still a kick in to the legs. 15:14 yep you are correct, i thought it hit Mbye before bouncing up, still a bad kick though. 15:57 I can't quite make it out but if that didn't hit Mcleans legs it is possibly the worst kick of all time.

You really gotta stop with this love obsession with Hunt, if you can't see that he either finds legs or kicks the ball so poorly it travels less than a metre, you 'have your eyes painted on' as the great vossy would say.

That other noise you hear is the ball hitting the ground.

It doesn't hit Napa. Watching it frame by frame and zoomed in would confirm that. The same with the McLean one.

Love obsession? No.

But I do believe people should get their facts 100% correct before making any comments regarding any player.

 

[winslow_wong]

The season can't start soon enough.

 

[Porthoz]

Yep didn't realise the 11:59 one and i thought the 16:38 was a knock on. But they got the ball back at least. I'm not saying Milford is the best kicker, but Hunt is meant to be the dominant kicker and more experienced half and judging from your video he is arguably worse than milford. That just isn't good enough at 26...

I don't think that based on the video, anyone can argue that the better short kicker of the two is Milford.

More importantly, our halfback doesn't even rate 50/50 in his short kicking efficiency. A decent halfback should in my opinion at least achieve a 4/1 ratio.

I'm quite certain we would find similar or worse results when it comes to 5th tackle decision making and execution.

 

[Unbreakable]

But I do believe people should get their facts 100% correct before making any comments regarding any player.

That's a little unfair tbh, most people don't have the free time to go through countless hours of replays to get all the advanced statistics from all of our players over the last 3 seasons. Opinions are opinions, they don't have to be 100% factual to be valid.

 

[Socnorb]

The one thing I'd say is that Milford needs to make sure his outside men know it's on.