just typed Sammy Lloyd into youtube and there are 2 kicks in there from the semi V widnes in 1980

1.Gary Pearce
2.Sammy LLoyd
3.Danny Tickle

from who i have seen while watching fc

1. Matt Crowther
2. Danny Tickle
3. Paul Cooke

Pearce
Cooke
Tickle

In that order

1 Sammy Lloyd
2 Danny Tickle
3 Henry Oulton ( winger only here on short term loan in 70's but supeb kicker)

Whooaa Sammy Sammy, Sammy Sammy Sammy Sammy Lloyd.

I loved it when he wiped his kicking boot up the back of his calf to clean the front of his kicking boot just before he ran at the kick. My boyhood hero was Sammy and a great kicker to boot (pardon the pun). Toss up for second place between Paul Eastwood and Gary Pearce.

Agreed. Todays modern kickers have lovely firm dry conditions, modern boots and a raised kicking tee.
Best kicker I ever saw in rugby league was Frano Botica at Wigan, this guy was just a machine and could kick from anywhere in any conditions.

Danny Brough won a challenge cup?

So did 16 other players that day and fwiw,Swains charge down won it for us.

As for best kicker...Pearce for me.if he was playing now,he would kick 40-20's for fun and its no coincidence that the last time we had a good kicking game was when he was kicking coach.

What about Colin Hutton?

Most natural & laid back goal kicker....Geoff 'Sammy' Lloyd, by an absolute street. I mean none of this fannying around lining it up, golf swing stance or pondering over the ball for half an hour like ticks. It was dig hole int ground, ball down, look at ball & posts then whack. My first home game was him knocking over 14 of the beggars against Oldham in '78.
As mentioned, only let down was the '80 final, still rewind the '82 final and start trying to blow the ball in a bit...lol

Garry Pearce deffo the best out of hand kicker for distance and had a high % success rate and for sure Eastwood was very reliable, Ticks probably the best of all. Eastwood took kicks for GB as well at some point and knocked one over from the touchline against the Australians I seem to recall.

Loking back over the years when I was a kid Bateson (542 in 13icon_cool.gif was really good but we scored a lot of tries in the late 50's, Keegan good too, but for me in the last 50 years John Maloney must have been the most accurate and consistant! 675 goals in 224 appearances and in his day there were alot of low scoring games played on glue pot pitches! Lloyd was a brilliant kicker but many of the games he played in were high scoring affairs with lots of opportunity's. In more recent times Tickle has been superb but its Maloney for me!

He also missed 2 very kickable attempts in the 3rd Test at Old Trafford in 1990 which would have won us the Ashes.

Tickle for me, by some distance

Stevie Hubbard best kicker in Hull !