Being able to kick on both feet should almost be selection criteria for this club. I'm sick of seeing Green, Bate and others who kick exclusively off one foot (Yze was another), get themselves into sticky situations and mess things up because they just can't kick at all on their non-preferred.

I know it's not easy to do that, but if it came down to a toss of the coin, if one player could kick with both feet they'd get my vote.

interesting that you singled out left footers.

also interesting that hawthorn artificially inflated their kiking efficiency by drafting left footers, who traditionally have higher quality kicking.

interesting that you singled out left footers.

also interesting that hawthorn artificially inflated their kiking efficiency by drafting left footers, who traditionally have higher quality kicking.

Yeah I didn't realise until later that most of the players who have just one foot are lefties. I think the fact that lefties generally are better kicks, and the fact that lefties often have absolutely no right foot go hand in hand. In other words, they concentrate a lot on kicking with their left as coaches see it as a weapon of sorts. In the process they neglect their right foot.

Personally I find all that crap about "left footers being better kicks and more one side" a load of crap.

I'm sure if you broke it down into percentages they'd be fairly even. Players like Nathan Brown and Didak have no problems kicking on their right foot, just as James Hird was as one-sided as Scott Lucas

Personally I find all that crap about "left footers being better kicks and more one side" a load of crap.

I'm sure if you broke it down into percentages they'd be fairly even. Players like Nathan Brown and Didak have no problems kicking on their right foot, just as James Hird was as one-sided as Scott Lucas

perhaps you think that. but then perhaps the hawthorn football department knows more about football than you, and that is why they targeted left footers in the drafts...

James Hird won a Brownlow with checksides master Jekyll

Touche ...

perhaps you think that. but then perhaps the hawthorn football department knows more about football than you, and that is why they targeted left footers in the drafts...

Or the players they were after happened to be left footers. That and because most players are right footed they tend to subconsciously guard opposition players right foot therefore giving a left footer more time to dispose of the ball.

I doubt Hawthorn ever went into a draft saying "don't pick up a right footer, don't pick up a right footer . . ."

Or the players they were after happened to be left footers. That and because most players are right footed they tend to subconsciously guard opposition players right foot therefore giving a left footer more time to dispose of the ball.

I doubt Hawthorn ever went into a draft saying "don't pick up a right footer, don't pick up a right footer . . ."

in an article a day or two after the GF, one of the hawthorn staff, recruiting or coaching im not sure, said exactly that. they specifically targetted left footers to artificially increase their kicking efficiency.