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Welcome to Tigers: Jason Castagna
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On track for a 25 goal season.... would not have believed that if u told me at the start of the season. He has a lot of floors ... but he is a kid... and I kind of like him. Difficult match up.
tha8ball said:
I like him too, but he should have at least 20 goals already, that's being very conservative. Misses too many set shots. Been costly in those close ones. Has to improve on it.
I have a flipping the ball around theory on approach to set shots. I think some PREnders share it. The more you flip the ball around on your approach, and/ or the later you stop flipping it around prior to kicking, the less likely you are to kick it. George flips it around like a harlem globetrotter. In the Swans game, he had 3 easy set shots, the one he kicked he didn't flip the ball on approach.
I guess it's alright to do it prior to starting your run up just to loosen the hands and mind up, but you want your hands as still as possible as you walk in.tigersnake said:
That's why i like the slow run up when goalkicking. You need your head and hands as still as possible when you get to the drop. If anything is waving around theres too much that can go wrong.
I heard Peter McKenna talking about it recently. He reckons do everything exactly the same every time you do a set shot and practise doing that at training. Hundreds of times a week if you have to.He thought Jack had the best routine in the AFL.
tigersnake said:
Grigg does it too. I think he does it more on set shots he doesn't appear confident on. He doesn't do it on those which he seems to have the confidence and he then kicks them. I think its a valid observation on ball flipping. Its the nervous nelly coming out in them.
evo said:
Jack does a flew flips of the ball before he starts his approach, then its stock still. *smile* used to do a Castanga as well when he played for us, but not as bad or as often. But you could set your watch by it, if Sarge flipped it, point, no flip, goal. Thats when I started to notice it.
MD Jazz said:
Nothing funny mate. I've been at work.
Now tell me what's different to what I've been saying
I've said he has some attributes, I've even mentioned he kicked a couple of good goals,haven't I?
I've said he needs to get more involved, has he? The previous game for all his chaos and forward pressure, he didn't lay a single tackle. I didn't see you defending that aspect of his game. It's a bit hard when you had nothing to work with.
I said he needs to improve his contribution of around 6 effective disposals a game. Obviously you think he's ripping games apart. I beg to differ. That's all.
He had a 3rd goal stolen? as others have said, no gimme from 20 metres out.
Good lord you're talking him up as if he's Eddie Betts ;D
He's got some good attributes, but he doesn't instill me with a lot of confidence, either actually getting near the ball or using it. Will he improve? I hope so for the teams sake. More hopeful than confident. Just my opinion. Funny how others have said the same as me but you've tended to ignore them. Why I wonder.
Baron Samedi said:
If that's addressed to me, I'll take it as a compliment.
Seeing I'm streets ahead of you I thought it only fair so you could catch up, to make it a little fairer. :hihi
its all about the education of the less fortunate. I try to be obliging on that front.
