I would agree with this about his kicking tee, it looks like he is using the puntee that was developed by Shane Curran back in 2004/2005. This tee was developed to increase kicking distance from kickouts. That was developed nearly 20 years ago, we can all clearly see that kickout strategies have changed dramatically in the last 20 years so how an intercounty keeper can be happy useing this tee is baffling.His kicking tee itself is a huge issue. It's the yellow bristly one that does go further tbf, but encourages long loopy kickouts. The lower cone type tees that 95% of keepers use days are much more effective for accuracy and driven type kicks. Any keeper that has ever used both would spot the difference in seconds, it's baffling that Martin or a goalkeeping coach (if we have one?) haven't been able to sort that out
Anybody know if Martin uses the same tee or same kickout strategy with Nemo, surley they go short like most other teams at this stage. His inability to kick the ball off the ground without a tee is strange as most keepers should be more comfortable kicking short without a tee.
Is Paddy O'Shea still involved as goalkeeping coach? he was brought in by Ricken but dont know if Cleary has kept him on or brought somebody else in. Who are the 3/4 other keepers that are involved this year with the squad surely one of them has a better kickout than Martin. Even if Martin is a better shot stopper it is more importnant now to have a better kicker in goals than a shot stopper.