All this speculation about players that are coming or are not coming. Surely we need a goal kicker, yes we have players who can kick goals, But they lack consistency, Since the departure of Brett Hodgson we have not been able to guarantee 6 points from every try. seeing that most of our try's are out wide, we need someone capable of kicking goals on a regular basis. At present we have to get 3 tries for 12 points. Instead of 2 + 2 goals. IMO.

Good point, we've lost a few games this season that would've been wins if Brett was at the kicking tee. FC at home the latest example.

I suggested that we needed a better goal kicker a couple of weeks back on the Gidley thread after the Widnes game and was met with a sarcastic response. To be fair to whoever it was I didn't back up my claim that we are winning or losing games by a narrow margin with any examples but a week later we got done by Hull after missing a couple out wide. If we make the 8 where the games will be close (which I expect us to) this could be our downfall I'm afraid.

That's why we should of signed Dobson before Salford snapped him up.

A good goal & field kicking half back like Dobson would have been an ideal signing especially with the writing being on the wall for Lee Briers as long ago as mid season 2013.

If we had have signed Dobson for this season....how many goals do you think he would have kicked?....



Answer... one more than Keith England!



I'm glad we didn't sign him and I'm disappointed that we signed Wheeler and all the after all the bigging up I gave him. Been wearing a dozen eggs on my face all spring.

That was me, and it wasn't sarcastic. I asked how many we had lost because of kicked goals. At that point, I'd suggest it was zero and now I can accept that Hull might fall into that category, but who knows if Hodgson would have kicked the ones missed on that afternoon.

i said at the time and i'd say again, the weather(wind) was more of a contributing factor on that day, than anything else.

No worries. I'm not one to pore over past results so may have been a snap judgement on my part and the following Hull game a coincidence, but agree with the original poster - missing too many kicks. Not really an issue if you're hammering teams every week but at the moment we're not, so hope it doesn't come back to bite us in the ass later in the competiton.

That other code don't seem to have a shortage of good kickers, how do they do it and could we follow their lead. Surely practice, practice, practice will do it?

Graham Appo kicked a few in his time.. time for a recall?

Because if you have a lot of penalties in a game of RU, you will inevitably kick a fair number of them. Teams constantly play for the penalty, especially at the scrum.