As I said mate I'm a big fan of the lad. We always seem to score out wide and have done for years due to our attacking style. Averages don't tell the whole story but a lot of folk were on Smiths back for poor goal kicking, myself included. Many of the same people are singing Escare's praises. Sneyd is showing the benefit of being a good goal kicker. Hull generally go up in 6's and it makes a huge difference.

lets wait till the end of the season when the averages are evened out, I certainly dont think smith was any better at all than him.

Missing by a whisker or missing by 10ft is still a miss. But if he took his time then the ones that aren't far off might start turning into "in by a whisker" rather than "out by a whisker". I still think he's a good goal kicker but he could become even better.

Just wondering if anyone else noticed one of the touchies put his flag up on the last kick from Escare before putting it down again presumably after a call from the other touch judge. Couldn't tell from the video whether it went over or not but must have been very close.

I couldn't really tell being in the south stand, but there was a groan from the Boston stand so it probably did miss.

Didn't notice the touch judges but it was nowhere near.

The last conversion attempt was a fair bit wide, the groan was most likely due to it being a kick to level the scores and missing. His first kick was only just wide of the mark however. If any kick had one flag up and one down I would have thought it would have been that one.

Sick of here grumblings every time a goal is missed "bloody hell we need a goal kicker" "bring back matty smith"


We've had a terrible goal kicker since pat left and have made the Grand Final every year, winning last year.

You don't sign goal kickers you sign players who can play rugby and the best kicker in that team will kick.

Wind your neck in, no one has said we need a new kicker or even ridiculed Escare, all that's been said is for him not to hurry his kicks.

Escare has been terrific for us so far this season, and I think that far outweighs a few percentage points in goal-kicking. And as pointed out upthread, we are still early into the season.

Maybe he was rushing a bit, but to be fair the clock was ticking and we needed every second.

Escare struggles to kick from the left. He missed two on Friday form that side that were about 10m in from the touchline. Conversely he landed one from the touchline on the right He's left footed and seemingly hasn't worked out how to deal with that.

He has the power and distance so to me it looks like he needs some coaching help for kicking from the left side of the pitch.

Perhaps if/when Escare gets a new contact the club will invest in hiring a goal kicking coach for him.
He's already a good goal kicker but he could be far better with good coaching.

The last kick was 6inches in from the touchline.
As per the picture on the other forum where someone responded to you

As a leftie, he's going to struggle more when kicking from the left touchline.

Hopefully, he does what Richards did, and goes out and does hours and hours of practice.