The torpedo - nothing better

[Gough]

I suspect there are a couple of players in each side who have been given the okay to kick torps because there is a better than even chance that it will come off.
Doubt we'll see a lot of it but it is handy thing to have when you want to mix things up a bit.

 

[WN123]

I remember Jimmy "the ghost" Jess kicking goals from the centre square using the torp.

I remember Jess kicking a few monsters.
Derek kickett used to bomb them from the centre square off one step.

 

[CrimsonRaven]

I'm just waiting for a coach to come along and insist that all his players can lanch a torp at anytime (ie do the Hawthorn thing of recruiting a long of left footers, except with torp kicks) and win a premiership from it.

 

[Mancey]

Remember Benny Graham launching them into the centre circle down at Geelong. **** he could kick a footy.

Benny is one of the ones in my vid doing exactly that

 

[exile]

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if someone launched one of these nowadays, we would not hear the end of it (similar to how blighty always manages to bring it up when he's commentating). such an amazing sight.

even watching someone like trent mckenzie, who doesn't load up with the barrel that often, but the length and precision of his kicks is astounding.

 

[Ed_Gein]

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glad the mark was given.

 

[DivideandMultiply]

Damn Wirra would be a weapon in the current game just a few years after his retirement.

Regularly used the torp both accurately and with great penetration to clear the ball from the backline.

Would have to have used the barrel probably more regularly than any other player in the last decade.

 

[Big Cox 88]

Always loved this one Goddard kicked at Subi. I would love to see how far hurn could kick one if he hit it sweetly.

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[dumb]

i seem to recall marc murphy kicking a few running torps this year. must be the aerodynamics.

 

[Tex_21]

Benny is one of the ones in my vid doing exactly that

So I now see

 

[Grey Smith Bar]

Just saying, but Fletcher could have set that ball up to the top of the square and given his team more of a chance to kick a goal.

Oh for sure, but we were 10 goals up, he's a proven torp kicker, surely has permission from the coach and the crowd was baying for it.

In that compilation the Blight torp was probably the only one that affected the game, most of them were showboating when the game was won. Which we need more of.

 

[Air_Chester]

Oh for sure, but we were 10 goals up, he's a proven torp kicker, surely has permission from the coach and the crowd was baying for it.

Crowd would have been shattered if he had passed it off. Dermie on the money, a sense of theatre and then some, Fletcher is a character of Essendon and the torp is his Kramer entrance. The crowd begging for it and Fletch delivering was well worth the price of admission on Saturday.

Blight's kick is still one of the greatest moments in VFL/AFL history. Nothing could be more appropriate than the description of it as a mammoth kick.

The torp gets people riled up, it will never die, but unless it is practiced more often it won't become a regular staple, but that's the entire appeal. It is used sparingly and you always remember when someone gets onto one.

 

[Fire Storm]

Nothing better then booming torp. Used to be the kick of choice in the NRL 'till the influence of AFL led to the drop punt being the norm. And more accurate and often more longer kicks in play the result of that.

Was at a Storm game a few years ago. Think it was Cronk, who always used the drop punt, on the 5th launches a beautiful torp. Everybody everybody around me says the same thing.

"Torp".
"Torp"
'Aww Torp"


Haha. Even in RL it went out of vogue. Was good to see it used. Maybe not an 80m Fletcher boomer, but pleasing nonetheless.

 

[Tiger2709]

A lot harder too mark, but no more risky than all the balls they bounce along the ground or they try to banana, cant see why not to use it if the opportunity is there.

 

[fishardansin]

Just saying, but Fletcher could have set that ball up to the top of the square and given his team more of a chance to kick a goal. The torp out of defence is interesting. Obviously if you aren't pinpointing it, then you want to kick it as far as possible. Torps have a risk of coming off really badly, and could float, or just go straight to an opponent.

For mine it probably isn't coming back. The risk of turning it over with a torp, and costing your team a goal, is too high compared to the chance it comes off and directly benefits your team. Drop punts are just safer. Even if a torp comes off, it will likely be to a contest, and because they are harder to direct, it will likely be a 50/50 contest. You can get the same result with a drop punt, with less risk of completely ballsing it up.

Yeah because his team was leading 107 to 52 deep into the 3rd quarter and the crowd was calling for it from the moment the 50 was paid. He did the right thing. He gave the paying punters what they wanted doing something that in no way would cost his team a win.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Twiggy Dunne’s was classic… how far out was he? 30m?

 

[EssendonNick]

Now in the days of presses and more tackles than ever trapping the ball in certain parts of the ground. Long torps should be at an all time high.
I think we are going back to the days where every metre counts.

 

[baja]

I remember one from Jim 'The Ghost' Jess against South Melbourne on the Lakeside oval (not a small ground by any standards), I was in awe..to be fair it was a windy day but it was wet and he let one rip from CHB and it sailed through post high, best Ive seen live.. Blights was pretty good too.

Anything is better than this new fad of dribbling it along the ground its shit.

 

[theflea]

there's alot of the ghost love here. i remember a torp from the last coaches box at ground level in the members stand at vfl park going thru post height. i was in awe!!!!!!!!

 

[kosifantutti]

I remember one from Jim 'The Ghost' Jess against South Melbourne on the Lakeside oval (not a small ground by any standards), I was in awe..to be fair it was a windy day but it was wet and he let one rip from CHB and it sailed through post high, best Ive seen live.. Blights was pretty good too.

Anything is better than this new fad of dribbling it along the ground its shit.

Are you sure it was CHB?

 

[baja]

Are you sure it was CHB?

LOL twas CHB'ish... it was more on the wing nearly in front of the umpires/caretakers pavilion and he was kicking towards the stand end.. I was 15m away on the boundary line holding a Big M cardboard thingy getting paid a pie and a Big M for it..I remember the sound of the contact, it was like when a boxer hits the bag crisp.

 

[Sector 7G]

Dale Thomas can launch a fair torp; not as far as Fletcher though.

Surely you jest. Daisy only kicks torps because he can't kick a drop punt more than 50metres and when he does they are ugly wobbly torps not the pure thing of beauty that is a well struck barrel that travels like a hail mary touchdown pass.

 

[wce4premiership]

Hurn unleashed one pre-season .. hasnt done it since

 

[themidlandmaster]

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Pies occasionally do it with Goldy as a set play

Straight over the zone!

 

[Mitchell Madness]

I miss the 80m drop-kick