Miers and his kicking will continue to excite comment for as long as he plays. agerealfooty GeelongFC AFLGrandFinal GryanMiers LanceFranklin
If Gryan Miers scores the winner for Geelong in Saturday’s grand final, it will bug Sydney doubly to know that his unique kicking style is modelled on their great“It came from actually copying ‘Buddy’ when I was kid because I could kick further and gain extra distance kicking like that when I was a little tacker,” Miers said. “Then it just kind of developed into what it is today. I’ve worked on a few things, so it is a bit more accurate than it used to be, and [now] it’s my own thing, I guess.
But Miers and his kicking will continue to excite comment for as long as he plays. It is like his Christian name, not seen every day. O’Keefe decided there was neither time nor cause to re-train his kicking. “We felt he had certain attributes, particularly with his running capacity, that were really draftable,” he said. “So we focused on those. We felt if we tried to straighten up his kicking, it might have meant going two steps back to go one step forward. We didn’t have that time.”For thoroughness’ sake, O’Keefe asked Nathan Murray to have a look at the way he kicks.
“If he’s kicking around the corner, as long as he’s got the ball upright, and the foot and the hand and the ball all line, that’s all that matters. It’s like a golf swing. You can have a beautiful swing like Ernie Els, or you can have a shocking swing, but as long as the connection point is the same, if it works, it works.O’Keefe remembers that while Miers kicked some grubbers in his TAC Cup years, he also kicked plenty of goals, including seven on Bailey Smith in the grand final.
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