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Colin Windon (37)
As always with these "to kick or not to kick" discussions the salient point is the quality (or lack of) the kick. There was no shortage of kicking by the Tahs last Sunday. Regrettably it was mainly ill directed. Putting aside the dire kicking in the 1st half, in the 2nd stanza I recall Foley's chip kick down the blind side that almost came off, Folau's hoof down field straight into the arms of a Force player and Beale's desperate late chip that led to van Wyk's try.
There's clearly a place for kicking even with the emphasis remaining on the ball in hand game but the kicking must be more judicious.
Often the logic goes "look at what happened when they kicked, obviously kicking is shit". I mean, you could apply the same to ball-in-hand. They couldn't catch a fucking cold on Sunday, and using the logic often applied to kicking I could conclude that they should play without the ball as they aren't able to hang onto it anyway.
They need some balance. Beale's recent tweets on kicking are more worrying to me than his shitty execution or brainless play as I've become accustomed to that.