Goalkicker : Sun Dec 06, 2015 9:35 am  

The squad for 2016 looks very light in the goal kicking department.
An area I thought we were poor in last season and we look even weaker going into 2016.
As far as I am aware none of the new signings are goal kickers and with the loss of Rankin we certainly look a lot poorer.
Mark Sneyd seemed way below average last season (not looked at the stats) for first choice goal kicker and from wide out on his wrong side was getting nowhere near.
Lee Smith could well improve us in this department if he is signed as I seem to remember him kicking well for Wakefield when I saw them last season just the other parts of is game that worry me a little.

Re: Gaolkicker : Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:00 am  

It's not just goal kicking but field kicking too. sneyd is hot and miss and pryce has no kicking game so unless abdul is on the field we'll be average at best

Re: Gaolkicker : Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:20 am  

Diver wrote:

The squad for 2016 looks very light in the goal kicking department.
An area I thought we were poor in last season and we look even weaker going into 2016.
As far as I am aware none of the new signings are goal kickers and with the loss of Rankin we certainly look a lot poorer.
Mark Sneyd seemed way below average last season (not looked at the stats) for first choice goal kicker and from wide out on his wrong side was getting nowhere near.
Lee Smith could well improve us in this department if he is signed as I seem to remember him kicking well for Wakefield when I saw them last season just the other parts of is game that worry me a little.

It would be interesting to compare Sneyd's percentage for us last season against the season before with Cas. Does anybody know where to find these stats? Towards the end of last season he seemed to alter his style but it didn't seem to have much effect.

Re: Gaolkicker : Sun Dec 06, 2015 3:08 pm  

Marcus's Bicycle wrote:

It would be interesting to compare Sneyd's percentage for us last season against the season before with Cas. Does anybody know where to find these stats? Towards the end of last season he seemed to alter his style but it didn't seem to have much effect.

Sneyd's kicking from both sides wide out was very poor.
I wouldnt surprise me if stats were available to find more of his conversions at Castleford were much nearer to the posts.
I like Sneyd as a player but he is far from a quality reliable goalkicker

Re: Gaolkicker : Sun Dec 06, 2015 4:42 pm  

IMO sneyd was a mixed bag on his kicking. But hopefully he has his kicking boots on this year and if so we have no worries. IMO we also have abdull who has a massive kicking game and maybe see more from Houghton so not to bad

Re: Gaolkicker : Sun Dec 06, 2015 6:21 pm  

Marcus's Bicycle wrote:

It would be interesting to compare Sneyd's percentage for us last season against the season before with Cas. Does anybody know where to find these stats? Towards the end of last season he seemed to alter his style but it didn't seem to have much effect.

I put some stats on here a few weeks back. Sneyd was on about 69% in 2015. Down from 2014 at Cas. Also lower than both Rankin and Crooks for Hull in 2014.

We need him to be somewhere around 80%. Last season his goalkicking was just not good enough.

Re: Gaolkicker : Sun Dec 06, 2015 6:41 pm  

We've certainly had some players "steal" a living from us in the past, but I think incarceration is probably taking it a little too far!

Re: Gaolkicker : Sun Dec 06, 2015 6:55 pm  

Stanley Unwin wrote:

We've certainly had some players "steal" a living from us in the past, but I think incarceration is probably taking it a little too far!

Ha ha yes sorry about thr title to the thread, read it through before I posted and still missed it.

Re: Gaolkicker : Sun Dec 06, 2015 7:12 pm  

Like all kickers its a confidence thing and think his confidensce went towards the end of the season for some reason.Personally think we will see the best of Sneyd next season,he will have had a full season alongside Pryce and a off season,which will benefit them both,as for kicking yes he was below his normal standards but maybe the change of ground affected him as KC is a damn sight bigger than Cas and he seemed to kick better away from home.

Re: Gaolkicker : Mon Dec 07, 2015 10:27 am  

Sneyd and Pryce had a full pre-season together before last season. Neither of them were last minute signings.
If Sneyd is injured or banned I think we only have Abdul as a goal kicker.