Quote ="scottty"I cant believe i'm going to say this but maybe Patton is the answer to both our problems... his tactical kicking is the best in the current squad of players and he's the most natural goal kicker in the team... for these reasons he'd be starting at 7 for me ahead of Brown....
His main issue seems to be lack of consistency... fantastic one week, invisible the next.. reminds me of a certain someone in his earlier pre-Tony Smith days (but not as good obviously ha ha)'"
Agree 100% with this. I would still like to see Blake and Brown start as our two halves, but Brown to be rotated for a handful of games and see this season transition Patton in, giving him a real go at staking his place in the team, ready for a first choice shirt next season. I suspect Price never really saw him as an interchange 9, but it was the easiest way to give him minutes last season.
Quote ="rubber duckie"It's when you can actually see the margin is so small, it puts to say we should be carry a goal kicker into perspective.
No we don't....we only need to increase the frequency of efforts for the kicker to put pressure on him to make it difficult to keep it up....then he'll get even better.'"
And 100% on this - it's not as if we've got Westwood as our number 1 kicker - a number of our kickers are good enough - the issue is we have [ikickers[/i, not a kicker. We just need to nail the kicking duties to one guy, with a couple of able deputies.