Opinion Best kicks of all time

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James Hird was one of the best field kicks i've seen, he never turned it over, always made the right choice.

buckley more often than not bit off more than he could chew, he was the leading clanger man one year iirc, just because he went for 70 mtr passes, superb all round kick though off both sides.

When it comes to kicking, Daicos-Jarman were the most talented, Daicos was a class above Jars when it came to goal kicking though, look at the Daicos highlights of him running full tilt on the boundry on his opposite side 50 mtrs out, crazy s**t.
 

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Some Idiot said:
Lindsay Gilbee was a pretty dangerous right footer for a few years
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Clearly lots of you havn't seen some of the better kicks from the past. Peter McKenna was a dead-eye drop punt specialist. Watch the 73GF to see Dick Clay regularly torping from fullback out to the wing. Also, Blight's 70 metre torp after the siren. Barry Davis was a beautiful drop kick. Plenty more as well. Trouble is, to be truthful there were lots of crap kicks then as well. Ever seen Des Meagher kick? That's why pack marking was more of an art in those days- shithouse wobbly punts kicked to a contest. In general, players today are better kicks, but limited to drilling drop-punts.
 
the croucher said:
Definitely not true. Similar claims are sometimes made for Albert Thurgood. They are also completely untrue.

McNamara was certainly a long kick. On 19 May 1923 for St Kilda vs Collingwood (VFL Round 3) he booted goals from 74 yds and 84 yds, and also a point from 93 yds. The match programme for Round 4 the next week carries an advert for Aeroplane footballs on page 2, and also comments on page 19...it includes ref to the three kicks and is available online via State Library of Victoria: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/120312

I believe the 93 yard kick (just over 85 metres) is the longest verified.

There is more about his career here in a 1931 press report:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/84208124
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A good list of long kicks is at http://footystats.freeservers.com/Footystats/LongKicks.html
It comes from the 3AW Book of Footy Records, by Graeme Atkinson and Michael Hanlon (Matchbooks) 1989

I have written some comment on the list at The Longest Kick in Football History....or not.

Most of the old long kick records were with a larger ball and were from place kicks.

The longest kick in the 3AW list is 105.5 meters by Fred Fanning which appears to be fiction as it was not mentioned in the news reports the next day.

And how could this one be missed by Jeff Fehring

 
Breretonisahood said:
Clearly lots of you havn't seen some of the better kicks from the past. Peter McKenna was a dead-eye drop punt specialist. Watch the 73GF to see Dick Clay regularly torping from fullback out to the wing. Also, Blight's 70 metre torp after the siren. Barry Davis was a beautiful drop kick. Plenty more as well. Trouble is, to be truthful there were lots of crap kicks then as well. Ever seen Des Meagher kick? That's why pack marking was more of an art in those days- shithouse wobbly punts kicked to a contest. In general, players today are better kicks, but limited to drilling drop-punts.
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Des Meagher! There's a name you don't hear much these days. I remember as a kid reading the stats in the old Sunday Observer, and noting how often he used to get 25+ kicks a game. A real old-fashioned ball-magnet on the wing. However, I do agree that those 25 kicks probably travelled a total of 75 metres horizontally and 1,234,900,000 metres vertically. He wasn't the only one, though.

The film of the 1967 Grand Final has plenty of Freddie Swift kicking out from full-back with a drop-kick and pretty near hitting the centre circle.
 
joe444 said:
Of all time? Sheesh.

Best kick was a certain player called Bernie Quinlan. The rest are close to irrelevant.

As for longest accurate kicker, Darren Bennett comes second to Quinlan and both exceed Fletcher by a mile IMO.

I love Gary the Father of the Non-prodigal Son to bits, but he could be downright wild at times (and he didn't always kick accurately either).
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Bernie Quinlan played early in his career with the Bulldogs at CHB

Once at the MCG he was opposed to Rex Hunt and several times he outmarked Rex, ran off and landed the ball in the goalsquare
 

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Team DJ said:
No, no you didnt.
Andrew Jarman, Elite hands, clean left and right.
Darren Elite feet. Elite left footer, elite Right footer.
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Darren was an incredible player who had the ability to win games off his own boot
 
Dean Rioli any one? brilliant kick rarely wasted the ball, when he got it, but was lazy over weight & sadly never saw the best of him
 
One a bit from left field, but probably the best off both feet for Adelaide wasn't Mcleod or Jarman but Rod Jameson. Could kick a 50 metre pass with both feet that went like a bullet. Super accurate set shot as well when he played forward early in his career.

I am old enough to remember Des Tuddenham kicking the cover off a few drop kicks as well. bob Shearman was mentioned on the first page of this thread. Could pin point a 50 metre stab pass that never got above chest height
 
Great exponents of the torp were Blight, Doug Wade, E.J. Whitten

Recently saw a DVD of the 1966 GF and Saints' Baldock and Cooper booted massive torp goals as did Tuddenham of Collingwood
 
Brenton Davy said:
One a bit from left field, but probably the best off both feet for Adelaide wasn't Mcleod or Jarman but Rod Jameson. Could kick a 50 metre pass with both feet that went like a bullet. Super accurate set shot as well when he played forward early in his career.

I am old enough to remember Des Tuddenham kicking the cover off a few drop kicks as well. bob Shearman was mentioned on the first page of this thread. Could pin point a 50 metre stab pass that never got above chest height
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rod jemerson, he was a dead eye dick, when it came to set shots, he rarely missed. i remember Dermott Brereton kept mentioning when he was commentating how he was the best kick for goal in the league, when he was playing
 
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