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For 7 decades of rugby league, ‘toe-pokers’ took the kicks at goals. Names like Clive Churchill, Dave Brown and Mick Cronin placed the ball flat on a pile of sand and kicked it with the front of their foot. It was crude and not all together effective.
All of that changed in 1974 with the Gamechanger John Gray, who introduced us all to Around The Corner Kicking. Standing the ball upright and approaching it from an angle provided immediate results, and soon toe-pokers were relegated to the history reels.
For the past 30 years, we’ve seen many masters of the art. Names like Darryl Halligan, Jason Taylor and Hazeem El Masri rewrote the record books with their round-the-corner kicking styles.
