The Wallabies have goalkicking worries ahead of the Rugby World Cup but Carter Gordon’s time under a world-class kicking guru is giving some confidence.
The man whose metronomic right boot kicked Australia to World Cup glory in 1999 has backed Wallabies rookie Carter Gordon to step up and become the reliable goalkicker required for a successful campaign at the Rugby World Cup in France.
With the already sizeable burden of being at his first Rugby World Cup and as the only No.10 named on Eddie Jones’ squad sheet, kicking duty is an added layer of pressure the five-Test Rebels playmaker could do without.But after Jones overlooked Quade Cooper, Bernard Foley, James O’Connor and even Reece Hodge, the only other regular goalkicker in the Wallabies squad is three-Test utility Ben Donaldson.
Doubling the pressure is the entrenched fact Rugby World Cups are won and lost by goalkickers. Since the tournament began in 1987, 72 per cent of all points in the nine finals have come via a kicker’s boot. Kickers have also provided a majority of points in World Cup semi-finals, too. “The game has changed [since 1999] obviously, but still the game is about scoreboard pressure,” Burke said.
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