How do you qualify for the half time kick?
It wouldn't take a great kicker to kick that from half way, just someone with immense power.
I have a mate who has never played a game of rugby yet I have seen him slot it from half way 4/5 times. He used to be a keeper who was not bad at goal kicks.

Not kicked a rugby ball for a long time, but found as a teenager I could get most power with the toe-poke style (a style rarely used these days), anyone else find this?

Yeah, if you catch it right - if you don't, and I usually didn't, you can slice it pretty easily. If I had to try from 50m, I'd toe-poke it end on. If I had a few practice goes (not too many - it hurts!) and a bit of a backwind, I'd have chance, I reckon.

Ah right, makes sense actually.

Guess what the poster said about the goal keeper been good rugby kicker adds up too - remember those adidas ads where Beckham was slotting rugby kicks over...

So, is Dobson the best goal kicker we've ever had?

Difficult to say with ever changing balls, boots etc.

I think one of the most crucial things that aids todays kickers is the kicking tee, must have been a lot harder when you had to dig a hole first then kick it.
The HT challenge also uses the markers as tee's rather than a proper tee which would make it easier.

Good point, God knows how they used to kick it out of the ground - rarely left then floor when I tried it like that!

Hey sand was pretty okay though.

Didn't George Fairbairn once kick one 13 miles? Out of the stadium into the back of a passing truck I believe.

Went further than that, the truck was on it's way to the docks and from there over to Rotterdam to deliver some logs. One of the Dutch dockers found the ball and had it sent back on The Norland.