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Surely the Camry Crows are entitled to keep Borlase on as cat B rookie. Did the AFL take into account the full impact of Borlase coming from a non-English speaking background with no history of playing Aussie Rules footy?
 
Surely the Camry Crows are entitled to keep Borlase on as cat B rookie. Did the AFL take into account the full impact of Borlase coming from a non-English speaking background with no history of playing Aussie Rules footy?

It was the will of Allah that they didn't manage to get Petty.
 

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A piddly little Victorian club the Western Bulldogs are going to appoint a goal kicking coach.. meanwhile at Kenny FC.

Lol this will probably pay off really well and they'll become the most accurate set shot team in the league. And everyone will be like slaps forehead do'h why didn't we think of that?

The league is so amateurish
 
Other clubs have had goalkicking coaches and it hasn't helped. The limitation is lack of practice. They don't spend enough time practicing the skill so it will never improve much.
Part time roles.

It's about practising smart not kicking your leg off.
 

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It's not just about routine you need to get them to practice when they are fatigued, kicking set shots for hours cold is absolutely pointless.
Can't remember who said it but apparently the sports scientists don't let them kick over a certain amount of kicks at practice, set shots are sacrificed.
 
Short of bussing in 40,000 people to yell at them while they take set shots at training, I'm not sure they can practice it much. If you're good enough at kicking a football to make it to AFL level, set shots become much more a mental skill than a physical one.

Players miss simple shots in the first quarters of games in front of 5000 people in western Sydney.

The optimal situation is to be so good at a skill that it's just automatic - and knowing this is what gives you the mental confidence to execute under pressure and fatigue.
 
It's 90% mental anyway, the act of kicking through 10m wide sticks from 30-40m out shouldn't be a challenge at all for professional players.
Yep, I used to be a very accurate shot in my amateur days, and I remember the last thing I would tell myself was "just put it through".

It doesn't matter if it just goes through, if it's a swinger, if it's a bit of a floater. Nothing matters, those sticks are 6.4m apart you could stand there for hours doing kick to kick with a mate lacing them out, putting it between 6.4m of space is easy.

Tune out the noise thinking about the routine, don't spend your last seconds trying to milk a degree, don't add distraction looking at the clock, just mark a spot to kick from, that takes the man on the mark out of the equation, go back a set number of steps that works for you, run in however you want and square your body and feet up to the target on the kick.
 
How many of our players do you think have kicked a football in the past month or will in the next month? Zak Butters said he did, which doesn't surprise me. How many others?

They just don't do enough. Do you reckon Novak Djokovic just takes a couple of months off hitting tennis balls? Not a chance. To be the best you have to live it. This is just a pissy little boys club sport that only a few million people in the whole world care about. They suck at things like goalkicking because it's not a world class professional sporting competition in any way.
 
How many of our players do you think have kicked a football in the past month or will in the next month? Zak Butters said he did, which doesn't surprise me. How many others?

They just don't do enough. Do you reckon Novak Djokovic just takes a couple of months off hitting tennis balls? Not a chance. To be the best you have to live it. This is just a pissy little boys club sport that only a few million people in the whole world care about. They suck at things like goalkicking because it's not a world class professional sporting competition in any way.
They are paid peanuts compared to big global sports, if you want more out of them and less down time they'll need significant wage increases.
 
They are paid peanuts compared to big global sports, if you want more out of them and less down time they'll need significant wage increases.
There are a shipload of Olympic sports where they get paid far less and train far more professionally

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It's not just about routine you need to get them to practice when they are fatigued, kicking set shots for hours cold is absolutely pointless.

And the mental aspect of nailing a shot with a game on the line and thousands of eyes on you.
You can nail them all day long at training and it doesn't count for much. It's like practising a speech in front of the mirror at home.
 
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