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I'm Not Bitter Anymore!
11-09-2011, 04:09 PM
Would someone please tell me what a "clutch" goal is? Chris Grant and other commentators have been saying it this weekend. Should I be watching more American sports?

Twodogs
11-09-2011, 05:25 PM
It's a goal kicked when the pressure is on in a game. Say your team has been five goals up and the opposition have kicked the last few to get within a few points then one of the players on your team kicks a goal to grab the momentum back.

That's a clutch goal.

LostDoggy
11-09-2011, 05:26 PM
Glad "Clunk" has almost disappeared put of the vocab.

I'm Not Bitter Anymore!
11-09-2011, 05:43 PM
It's a goal kicked when the pressure is on in a game. Say your team has been five goals up and the opposition have kicked the last few to get within a few points then one of the players on your team kicks a goal to grab the momentum back.

That's a clutch goal.

Thanks for that

ledge
11-09-2011, 06:04 PM
I would have called it a crunch goal, thats what it used to be called.

I'm Not Bitter Anymore!
11-09-2011, 07:09 PM
I would have called it a crunch goal, thats what it used to be called.

I'll tell the pinch hitter and the quarterback

LostDoggy
11-09-2011, 09:14 PM
Would someone please tell me what a "clutch" goal is? Chris Grant and other commentators have been saying it this weekend. Should I be watching more American sports?

It comes from Baseball they call it a clutch hit or play when one is really needed.

MrMahatma
11-09-2011, 10:52 PM
The one Roo missed against the swans this week. Set shot. Would've put the saints within a kick. That would've been a clutch goal.

Then again, in a tight final you could argue every goal is a clutch goal.

hujsh
12-09-2011, 02:17 AM
It comes from Baseball they call it a clutch hit or play when one is really needed.

I've heard it in NFL too.

Basically an important or game winning moment in the last quarter is a clutch moment.

LostDoggy
12-09-2011, 10:09 AM
Also used in basketball -- the ability to hit the 'clutch' shot being a key skill in a sport where it so often comes down to the final shot.

MJ was renown as a gun clutch shooter, ever since he sunk the last basket to win a championship for North Carolina back in his college days.

Basically 'clutch' just means the opposite to 'choke' ie. someone who will rise rather than wilt when the pressure to win the game is on.

Sedat
12-09-2011, 10:25 AM
Clutch goals can best be defined as the ones we didn't kick in the 2nd halves of the 08 and 09 PF's :(

Cyberdoggie
12-09-2011, 12:04 PM
Clutch goals can best be defined as the ones we didn't kick in the 2nd halves of the 08 and 09 PF's :(

Gia/Higgins/Gilbee/Murphy, the list goes on.

Luke Hodge for the Hawks on friday night made a couple of big goals, didn't help in the long run but he kicked goals he had to kick, where as some of his teamates missed.

Greystache
12-09-2011, 12:31 PM
There was a thread about this same subject last year, no one seemed to be able to agree if we had anyone with this attribute.

http://www.woof.net.au/forum/showthread.php?t=7753

AndrewP6
12-09-2011, 05:51 PM
I reckon our only clutch goal kicker went when Baz finished... not sure anyone else fits the bill.

ledge
12-09-2011, 05:57 PM
It will be little Dahlhaus.

chef
13-09-2011, 06:54 AM
I reckon our only clutch goal kicker went when Baz finished... not sure anyone else fits the bill.

Aker did.

LostDoggy
13-09-2011, 10:05 AM
Aker did.

Boy did he. He's a shit bloke but if I had to choose someone to kick a goal to save both our lives (not just mine because then he wouldn't give a crap) Aker would be it.

He was big-time clutch.

Mantis
13-09-2011, 10:07 AM
Boy did he. He's a shit bloke but if I had to choose someone to kick a goal to save both our lives (not just mine because then he wouldn't give a crap) Aker would be it.

That's when you get your Mum to kick for goal.

Sedat
13-09-2011, 10:42 AM
That's when you get your Mum to kick for goal.Hopefully Patrick McGinnity is on the mark

LostDoggy
14-09-2011, 01:18 PM
I guess its a Captains goal when the captain doesn't kick it.