St George-Illawarra have been accused over “overcoaching” and questioned for failing to behave on the baffling decline in accuracy of their long-term goalkicker Zac Lomax.
The centre has been dropped by Anthony Griffin this week, and whereas Lomax’s goalkicking will not be regarded as an element within the choice, his struggles with the kicking tee have been notable for the Fifteenth–placed aspect this season.
Lomax had transformed at round 77-78 per cent in every of the previous 4 seasons since taking the aim kicking job fulltime.
However this yr his numbers have dropped alarmingly — changing at simply 60.35 per cent, the bottom success price of any full-time kicker within the competitors.
Remarkably, the drop has come regardless of the Dragons bringing in goalkicking legend Daryl Halligan to work with Lomax within the low season, in line with Daily Telegraph reporter Paul Kent.
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“Certainly his goalkicking has gone off this year,” Kent stated on NRL 360.
“It’s been one of the great over-coaching (examples), whether it’s Griffin or somebody else at the club
“.. Over the off-season they brought in Daryl Halligan to help him with his goalkicking. Now he was kicking at 78 per cent last year and this year he is kicking at about 60 percent so he’s dropped about 20 per cent
“Now there’s been all sorts of issues with the height of his tee. Halligan asked him to bring it down because if you remember Halligan was a goal kicker who was a low kicker. ”Lomax has at all times been fairly a excessive kicker of the ball. He tried to vary that for no matter motive, I don’t know.”
Co-host Braith Anasta was additionally stunned by the transfer.
“If you’re kicking at 78 per cent , you don’t need to change your style, not a whole lot. That is quite good,” Anasta stated.
“Darly Halligan is a genius. I’ve played with Chook and watched him and he coached me and helped me with my kicking, and he’s amazing.
“But when you’re kicking for goal you’ve got to be comfortable with your own style and sometimes – you don’t need significant change it’s just a mindset thing.”
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While a scarcity of conversions will not be solely Lomax’s fault — with lots of the Dragons’ tries scored out vast — it has proved expensive for the workforce which has gone down in lots of tight affairs.
“In their past four games, in three of them it was three tries each, they lost all three on goalkicking – and in the fourth they actually outscored the Roosters five tries to four and and they still lost the game on goalkicking,” Kent stated.
“That’s not Zac Lomax’s fault. A lot of those tries that were scored were out on the sideline, he’s had some difficult kicks … but it’s a concern for the club.”
Daily Telegraph reporter David Riccio stated it was stunning the Dragons had continued with Lomax so lengthy, with different goalkicking choices within the squad together with Jack Bird, Ben Hunt, Moses Mbye and Jayden Sullivan.
“What’s going on at the Dragons coaching staff not to identify this issue,” Riccio stated.
“Would the Roosters and the Panthers persist with a goalkicker … with the narrow losses … do they continue to persist as long as they have with that lack of accuracy?”
Source: www.foxsports.com.au