Skills

[goal sneak]

Q: What do the following players have in common. Nathan D Brown, Simon Godfrey, Clint Bartram, Nathan Jones and James McDonald.

A: None of them know how to kick a football.

I hate this, all these guys have a crack but the truth is there skills are letting doen the team. It seems that every player in our team either has poor skills or if they have skills they have the heart the size of a pea. Could we please draft someone with McDonalds heart and Johnstones skills.

 

[stickman11]

Q: What do the following players have in common. Nathan D Brown, Simon Godfrey, Clint Bartram, Nathan Jones and James McDonald.

A: None of them know how to kick a football.

I hate this, all these guys have a crack but the truth is there skills are letting doen the team. It seems that every player in our team either has poor skills or if they have skills they have the heart the size of a pea. Could we please draft someone with McDonalds heart and Johnstones skills.

Batram is pretty skilled... Jones is quite good...

Not sure what you are on about.

 

[dutchy12]

very tough on Jones and McDonald reckon they go alright

Bartram is pretty horrible though

 

[melbournemartin]

Jones looks awkward and struggles sometimes with small kicks but can give the ball a hell of a roost if he needs to.

 

[demonfan9]

Harsh on Jones and McDonald.

You forgot to add Wheatley.

 

[Bartram_Class]

Wheatley on song is one of our best kicks.

 

[Deenamite]

Godfrey's by far the worst there, Jones struggled a bit against hawks, McDonald is reasonable. I'll just say I'm happy they actually give everything, week in, week out.

 

[bringbackschwarter5]

You can put Bruce on that list

 

[Headless]

You can put Bruce on that list

Here here! Everytime Bruce or Holland ('05) were kicking for goal, I thought "Righto, here comes a point at best".

Holland drops it way too early, I reckon.

 

[Dirty Jamahl]

McDonalds heart and Johnstones skills you say. I think that hybrid wears number 4 for West Coast!

 

[demonfan9]

Wheatley on song is one of our best kicks.

Sorry but I couldn't disagree more. The constant thing that I think of about Wheatley (over the years) is him attempting to boot the ball 80 metres out of the backline, only to completely shank it out of bounds, or hit an opponent right on the chest.

 

[master bate]

I would argue at least half our teams kicking skills aren't up to scratch.
Bad kicks
Holland, Miller, Brown, Godfrey, Bartram, Jamar, Warnock
50/50 kicks
TJ (can have shockers), Bruce, MacDonald, Moloney (long but ineffective), Bate (mastered the helicopter), Jones, Ward, Frawley, Buckley, Carroll

Have we hired Nicho as kicking coach!

 

[deeman12]

Q: What do the following players have in common. Nathan D Brown, Simon Godfrey, Clint Bartram, Nathan Jones and James McDonald.

A: None of them know how to kick a football.

I hate this, all these guys have a crack but the truth is there skills are letting doen the team. It seems that every player in our team either has poor skills or if they have skills they have the heart the size of a pea. Could we please draft someone with McDonalds heart and Johnstones skills.

I think we already have in ricky pettard.
And mathew bate has a terrible kicking action he looks like damien peverill when he kicks.

 

[Supermercado]

Johnstone's skills? Maybe circa 2002 but not now please. Enough of the king of the laser like turnover.