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In the warm up before the Melbourne match, the forwards were at the city end having shots at goal. Nathan took his first couple and neither came off the boot overly well, both going through for behinds. For his third shot he runs in and bang – straight through the middle.

Nathan, after missing two with his right foot, had run in with what appeared to be a normal set-shot approach and without so much as a stutter, calmly slotted the goal on his left. If it was the first time I had seen him kick I would have said he was a natural left footer!
 

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Nathan, after missing two with his right foot, had run in with what appeared to be a normal set-shot approach and without so much as a stutter, calmly slotted the goal on his left. If it was the first time I had seen him kick I would have said he was a natural left footer!
Kingsley could take something away from this stratergy.
He couldn't get any worse at his goalkicking, why not try the left?
 

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Looking at the stats, last year was his worst, with the two years before that sitting just over 60% and an average over his career of around 57%.

Sorry this was a thread about Nathan, somehow it always comes back to Kent.
 

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I think the improved conversion from Kingsley is that he's taking shots from better angles. He's not stuck in the pockets as much this year.

Getting back to Nathan though, I like the way he thinks about his game. When he missed his first shot in the game, he took his time in the next shot and ran through it first. Also when one of his leads was ignored later in the gamehe pointed where the ball should go, or where he was going to run for the guys up field. Hopefully as he plays with the guys more, he gets to know them better and will learn where they are likely to kick to etc. This seems to have rubbed off a little on Kent (which is a good sign), as his second efforts and throwing his body around have improved. Also, when he laid a smother in the third (I think), he then ran hard in order to get back into the forward line and provide an option, consequently the ball was kicked to him and I think he goaled. All bodes well for the immediate and longer term future.
 
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an article in the paper this morning saying he didn't finish training last night, hope it's nothing major. plus Wallace will be looking to shut him down this weekend, he'll get attention from before the first bounce, it'll be interesting to see if he can still contribute... very hard for such a young kid, no matter how talented, to produce consistent efforts each week, i reckon it'd be a big tick against his name if he could achieve half what he did last week...
 
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