After watching the Cas Giants game tonight it just shows how important it is to have a top kicker in your side ,Dixon missed some hard kicks but Tickle as been slotting them over ,keep it up tomorrow Danny it could be close again ,it maybe the differance in a close match

we've won a couple of match's already this season because of dannys boot. he's the most in-form kicker in super league so i'm sure he'll be in good shape for tomora

To be fair I think the wind played a big part in the kicking failures tonight.

Agree about Tickle though

Why doesn't he kick for touch on our penalties? He must have an hefty boot on him, last night pat Richards moved wigan 40 metres each time.

are you still allowed to kick for touch from the ground/kickin tee? Never see it done now but it would add 40 metres a go

I have always thought that. I remember Fairburn used to put the ball on the floor and hoof it for touch, he used to gain a massive amount of yardage for his team.

yup

He's kicked well this season but he cost us points last season still not a top class kicker 4 me doesnt fill me with confidence but if he carries on so far like he has this season my mind mite be turned!

2008 stats: Kicked 81 - missed 22

80% success rate seems pretty good to me

hahahahaha

mike fletcher used to do that as well i seem to recall

I can only think of the away defeats at Craven Park and Knowsley Road where he missed a couple and we lost by the odd point but even then it would be unfair to blame the losses on Tickle's goalkicking.

can you imagine bringing on a kicking tee for every penalty we get

I thought it had been outlawed cos you don't see it anymore. Would slow the game down a lot!

It's a bit of a bug bearer of mine is our kicking for touch. We just seem to knock it 10 meters rather than going for some good distance.

Bring back Gary Pearce.

Super Taff.

After the number of times we failed to make touch last season, I'm OK with the "safety first" approach.

was talking to him yesterday

I was just going to post the same thing about kicking for touch off a tee.
Would take too much time though.

As a second rower with a heavy workload including goal kicks it may allow him just to have a breather.

I don't think one kick to touch would make a whole lot of difference, as soon the kick has been taken the full team has to move up and start attacking straight away. Unless the kick was at the other side of the field to Tickle then I don't see the trouble in Tickle taking it, if he is accurate enough at them to get them far enough and still get them out of play.

Danny Tickle has been a quality goal kicker ever since his days at Halifax, in my opinion he is now the number one goal kicker in Super League. Hopes he gets an England call up!