Off the top of my head and with no calculator I've worked out he's kicked 73 from 86 attempts this season, which is a whopping 84.88% success rate.

Have we ever had a better goalkicker than our Mini Beckham? This fact is about the only prediction for Saints' future that our friend Rogue has got right so far.

What was JL's kicking %
Nobody will better Baloo

Nice to see such a positive post, very refreshing. (awaits some miserable bugger saying something like 'one trick pony')

Sean Day

He's probably the best I've seen. Paul Loughlin was our kicker when I started watching, but he was going downhill by then. Lyon was good, as were Goulding and Long at their best, but I don't reckon any of them ever reached the levels of consistency and nerve that Foster has shown this season.

In Super League he kicked 162 goals from 203 attempts which off the top of my head represents a 79.80% return.

In his last two seasons with us Longy had a kicking percentage of 73% in 2008 and 62% in 2009.

Since 2004 Paul Wellens has a kicking percentage of 41.30% for us.

Kyle Eastmond: 76.76% Saints career to date
Jonny Lomax: 69.23% Saints career to date

Why do you feel the need to tell people you're doing it without a calculator? This thread is about Jaime Foster and his skills, not what mental arithmatic you can do. Unless you want gratification from the forum?

Foster will hopefully be able to hone his skills and become a full international in years to come, hopefully his kicking skills will be vital. Quick one, as I don't watch your team every week, does he ever undertake the infield kicking? Seems to be pretty accurate with his boot (granted different skill)

I am doing it without a calculator so there might be an error somewhere.





I've never seen him do it to be honest, apart from the odd panicked bomb when we've messed up on the last set. He's done a few decent chips down the line etc, but no positional kicking that I've seen.

I student of the Ian Millward school of risk taking. Posts statistics without a calculator and witty prose without a spell checker.

Saddened! truly lives life on the edge.

His success rate with the boot is up there with the best in the Kick Clap and Pile on game. We all know how much they value a man with a good boot.

Didn't Baloo equal Barry Ward's record?

Oh Yes forgot about Barry Ward

I could never forget - particularly as I promised to show my 'arris if he kicked it!!

Paul Anderson 1 attempt 1 conversion 100% no calculator needed

best kicker weve had to date nuff said

The most impressive thing about any kicker is the kicks they make under pressure. Foster clearly has this attribute. There are other players who can kick to a high standard but he is one of the best in the league at making these kicks under high pressure along with our own Pat Richards and also Paul Deacon (when at Bradford) also seen Dobson and Tickle do it.

I have personally kicked goals from the touchline but I don't think there is a chance I could do it infront of thousands of people under pressure to win a game. The kick he did at our place to go ahead was seriously awesome.

There was a point when tickle was at Wigan that it felt like he never missed.

Tickle's averages at Hull are impressive 85.56% in 2010 and 80.36% career to date with Hull. But only 76.79% this season.

He was pants at Wigan though 73.73% between 03 and 06.

Something tells me you're a bit bored today?

How can you tell

, oh I don't know, just a feeling.

Memery serves that he hit a bit of form around the time Millward was our coach and we had a run of losses against them.

We've had some pretty good kickers during my time of watching saints. Loughlin, Dave Lyon, Jamie Lyon, bobbie goulding, Sean long, scully and foster was all good goal kickers.

Sean long was great under pressure but for the best I'd go with Jamie foster.

I'm not sure those stats are that great though, they don't take into account where the kicks are taken from. You often find RU players hardly ever seem to miss but most of the kicks are from infront of the posts for pens. RL sees many kicks taken from the touchline for many of the tries. Not just saying it because he is a Wigan player but Richards is one of the best kickers around, the distance he can get helps him knock them over from anywhere..... but most of his kicks last year were from the touchline because of the rugby we played, Goulding and Richards scored 54 tries between them meaning that a lot of his kicks were right from the sideline which means the percentage is going to be lower than if he took them all from further inside. I'm sure there are teams which score tries closer to the posts.

The entertaining sides will score tries closer to the posts, those that score from further out and rely on the skills and speed of their players rather than the long cut out forward pass to a winger who flops over the line, or the kick to the corner for an otherwise anonymous player to score from.