DCE to be the fulltime goalkicker.

[1969]

God help us!

When the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles take their first penalty goal or line up their opening conversion of the 2018 Telstra Premiership season, skipper Daly Cherry-Evans will pick up the green kicking tee.

He might have the third best accuracy rate from the four kickers the Sea Eagles used in 2017, but the 29-year-old has been hitting them sweetly in training – and in Manly's last trial against the Sydney Roosters – and he wants to be the team's main goal-kicker.

https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/03/08...-up-for-manly-sea-eagles-goal-kicking-duties/

 

[Woodsie]

He will get better with the practice .... hard to be consistent when you only kick once in a while .....

 

[maxta]

Hope we score plenty of tries....

 

[Disco]

I'm getting a twitch to get him in my supercoach team

 

[SeaEagle21]

I like a Captain that steps up to take responsibility

 

[Frogz]

Hope we score plenty of tries....

under the posts...

 

[The '47ers]

I'm getting a twitch to get him in my supercoach team

Not for $548k

 

[Snake]

Goal kicking is like a golf swing...you have to play golf all the time to iron out the chinks in your armour. DCE has a good technique and has always struck the ball nicely, but he has only ever been a part time kicker.

The smart thing to do is give him the confidence to grow into the role. Make him the no.1 and have him practice like it's high priority at training, as opposed to "maybe we'll call on you if need be". Of course he is going to be shaky if that is the case.

I was quietly livid with Manly for taking the duties off Walker last year. He too has a nice technique but needed time to develop into the role. He had a few shaky games but he kicked a 40m penalty goal in golden point to win the game (albeit it was his kicking that forced golden point) but it shows that he has the confidence to kick a winner with the game on the line. Two weeks later he didn't kick again for the year.

Matt Wright is not going to be in our best 17 and any kicker that opens up the angle that much, is not confident or serious as a goal kicker...in fact it's embarrassing to see him set it up so far away from the post. Stats tell opposition fans that we lack a goal kicker, we don't need Wright's questionable set-up to keep reminding them of our shame.