I’d say stick. 1/5 isn’t a great statistic but they were all out on the touch line. None of them were miles off either.

If it starts affecting the rest of his game then that’s a different matter.

You can still have wingers scoring tries under the sticks though. It would be interesting to see exactly how many of his kicks last season were difficult ones. French would often score a breakaway try but still under the sticks.

This isn't true Stu. I remember saying last year that we score most of our tries out wide. Even if we had 10 break away tries that ended up under the sticks (and I'm being generous there as not all break away tries end up under the sticks as chasers back often force them out wide) it's still in single figures percent of his overall kicks taken. He still kicked way more from out wide than the next best kickers kicked in total! That's a sobering thought...

Quote: Stu M "You can still have wingers scoring tries under the sticks though. It would be interesting to see exactly how many of his kicks last season were difficult ones. French would often score a breakaway try but still under the sticks.'" Decide for yourself pal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB8fvoH ... ScoutingRL There may be a few more with his burst of speed closer to the sticks than your average winger, but not enough to be an outlier and many are still in the 1/3 of the pitch closest to the sideline. As a side note, what a year French had. That's just 1 season's of tries, and is probably better than most player's career highlight reel!

Quote: Stu M "You can still have wingers scoring tries under the sticks though. It would be interesting to see exactly how many of his kicks last season were difficult ones. French would often score a breakaway try but still under the sticks.'" Decide for yourself pal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB8fvoH ... ScoutingRL There may be a few more with his burst of speed closer to the sticks than your average winger, but not enough to be an outlier and many are still in the 1/3 of the pitch closest to the sideline. As a side note, what a year French had. That's just 1 season's of tries, and is probably better than most player's career highlight reel!

Smith was statistically the best kicker in SL last year
Smith kicked them from all over the shop last year Inc. More than his fair share from out wide