I’d say only a couple of those are ones that shouldn’t be missed - FFS, at least four of them (Cutler on the boundary, Perkins after dodging 15 blokes, Caldwell on the snap, Wright from 50 on the angle) were genuinely difficult kicks.
Sure, work on it, but I don’t think it’s as big an issue as it is being made out.
This has always been a bugbear of mine…
Apart from Wright (& Jones / Tippa), our forwards are quite poor set shots. I get frustrated when coaches lament poor goal kicking as reason for loosing. I’ve felt clubs place insufficient time & resources behind the skill of kicking for goal.
Understand teams practice goal kicking. I’m sure they have dedicated practice and strategies to improve it. However, so much time is spent elsewhere trying to find ways to restrict oppositions scoring that I can’t help think footy clubs are simply missing opportunity for significant scoring & overall outcomes by revolutionising how goal kicking training is conducted & built on.
How do we stop Neal? How can we get team defence right? How are we setting up at stoppages? How can we alter flow of games? So on and so forth… But what about goal kicking!
Simply put, if Essendon kicked 8.3.51 instead of 4.7.31 (to 1.1.7) early in second Qtr, we possibly win the game and there’s less reliance on all the other stuff that may not be able to be fixed each week, especially in games.
Francis to me doesn’t look confident in his goal kicking, he doesn’t look like kicking it straight. Yet he’s trained all preseason forward and as a junior. It’d be interesting to know how much really focussed work he puts into kicking goals at training. McGrath ditto although mid. Cox whilst young looks a bit rough at this early stage too…
Perfect practice makes perfect… I wonder how much perfect practice Essendon (and other clubs) do? To me it’s an area of opportunity not really being addressed.
So Truck lamented missed chances yesterday. So what’s the plan this week? What changes being made to how and how long they train on it?
We kick 15.10 yesterday to their 15.07 and we go into Melbourne this week having felt like we got a big scalp and one back against the field. The belief and difference would be substantial.
Alas, we coukd do what we did last week and wonder why (again).
We kicked for goal amazingly well last year. Best or 2nd beSt in the league? Was always a good bet we’d “adjust” back to the mean.
Our goal kicking woes are exasperated by us having no ability to defend a kick out also.
You just know when we score a behind that the ball will be up the oppositions end in about 20 seconds 
Free pass up to the 70m mark from our kick ins
Agree wangas and waterman wouls be better than smith and fanga
You are ignoring how many were easy set shots, from slight angles. It cost us the match yesterday, it is an issue.
Cox, McGrath, one of Parish’s shots, Durham.
I’ll concede those four probably should have been kicked. But the other behinds were either rushed, tough set shots, or tough kicks on the run.
Had a family picnic today, first time all my 6 grandkids together in three years.
We went to the local park kicking a footy, I feel very tired and my knee hurts. However my 14 year old grandson can kick goals from any angle at 40 metres out. He does not miss, and his 12 year old sister is just as good from 30. Even the younger ones can kick further than Dev Smith.
And even I at 68 could still kick a goal from 40 out.
I seriously do not get how any AFL footballer misses a goal when straight in front or on a slight angle. And for farks sake , it was with no wind on a prime surface with great lighting.
Instead of 10 goals 15 points it should have been 15 goals, 10 points and we win the farking game.
We could have really burried Brissy in the first qrt go into qrt time with 40+ point lead
Perhaps.
But it was still 14 goals to 6 after quarter time.
We Gotta play 4 quarters to win.
I don’t think a bigger quarter time lead would have helped much more, if we don’t back it up.
tell them if you dont kick the next goal they’re out of the will.
Don’t know if have grandkids, but they are way smarter than their parents.
Already have cut all of their parents out of the will and it all goes to the grandkids. That said, Mrs Fox and I are doing our best to spend it all. Going to the footy with a can of beer and a glass of wine at $21 helps get rid of it.
“Why did you get no inheritance?”
“Ohh, it all got blown on $9.50 schooners of midstrength beer at Marvel Stadium watching Essendon get rolled by interstate clubs at strange timeslots”
yep your hoping, but not confident.
even more annoying when Joeys kicking goals down the other end.
At least Baldwin kicked 3 in the Ressies.
I thought Parish would kick his.
And Stringer on the boundary but he just set it up.
pics or it didnt happen
Of all those misses, i believe three of those misses should of been kicked 100% of the time.
8 you could count as 50-50
The other 4 are misses/rushed behinds
Some of those easy misses happened in the first quarter and early in the second when we really could’ve finished the game.
this is where the mental side is the BIG player…the coach will say ( and yes that is happened to me numerous times) as a group you were hopeless give you a bake say you were lucky to be only x amount of points down now go out and play and you are right in this…
dont down play the mental influence of being down 22 or 40
Only about 1 out of 10, but better than some. And my leg is very sore today.
Serious about the Grandkid though, he never misses, should have taken a photo of him.
