Quote ="RyanWire"perhaps but a good kicker converts at least one of those. Thats the difference between being a good kicker and an ok kicker.'"
Give the lad a break. It was the first time he kicked at first grade, all three were from the touchline, the team was not exactly orbiting the moon and he was limping quite badly before he kicked that final kick (he took a knock to his knee as well as having his face bashed later on). He had a lot of pressure on his shoulders on Friday. If the team had been coasting points ahead then he may well have converted all three, even with a damaged knee. However, he will have known, just as we all knew, that the match could all hang on his kicks. That's pressure enough for an experienced, confident kicker in a lacklustre team but a young guy on his first grade debut? Leave it out. He'll do just fine over time.
We appear to have quite a few kickers in our young players although, Matty Smith aside (who is probably not rejoining us), apparently Foster is the best even though we haven't seen Foster in action since the friendlies. Eastmond isn't all that more reliable than Longy from what I can gather so far, Wheeler can boot them over, and Lomax and Ellis are both kickers. If all of them practice often enough that gives us a healthy number of options, so long as at least two are playing in any one match!
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