I know that percentages don't give all of the answers (depends upon where from the field the kick is taken).



I know the kid is young and has time to develop



BUT I was alarmed to see that Liam Sutcliffe has a success rate of 62.5% on his goal kicks, having missed 12 of 32 kicks taken.



Whilst it's unfair to compare him to perhaps the greatest goal kicker of this generation Sinfield kicks 86.54% of his, having missed just 7 from 52.



Nowhere was the importance of this better illustrated than last Friday when we went in at the half ahead, despite having scored 1 less try than Hull KR.

I thought this last Friday that is it worth finding a place somewhere in the team for Sinfield for his goalkicking alone as it can and was worth an extra try.

We also talked about this at the game on Friday.

We said that we hoped Sutcliffe was learning from Sinfield & that he was committed to the amount of practice needed to become a consistent & accurate place-kicker.

Johnny Wilkinson used to practise for hours on end to hone his kicking technique. Sinfield also I believe spends many hours on his own grooving his kicking.

Sutcliffe needs to do the same, in close games it can make all the difference.

but david furner was F##kin brilliant

Goal kicking is very important and we've been spoilt with Sinfield. As well as a quality prop Rhinos are suppose to be after a halfback and I wonder if being a good kicker is one skill GH is after ?

You don't need stats to see the lad is a poor goalkicker. Hardaker is little better. Can that be ironed out? Well, it hasn't yet...



Any 80-minute front line props who can also kick goals around?

lee crooks was one with his kick against the kiwis at eland road

IMO I believe that Sinny is worth at least 4 to 6 points extra per game.



Those extra points will be sorely missed next season

Unless we sign a replacement of course.



Go with what we have then you have an issue.

Do you know something we don't?

Yeah well, we tried that...



Actually struggling to think of goal-kicking forwards nowadays. Tickle must be the last one now that Huby doesn't kick any more.



Then there's Cameron Smith and Corey Parker in Australia. Would be happy with either of those...

Doesn't Westerman kick for Hull?