Tony Lockett knows a thing or two about goalkicking.
In fact, with the all-time VFL/AFL record of 1,360 goals, he knows pretty much all there is about it.
The AFL Hall of Fame Legend appeared on RSN on Friday and was puzzled at why goalkicking accuracy appears to have dropped in recent times.
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"It can't be practise, there's no way known it can be practise because these clubs now are training everyday, sometimes twice a day," Lockett said.
"You've got coaches in every way, shape and form for every part of the game there is, so it can't be from lack of effort or from practise or anything like that.
"What is it? I dunno. I think a lot of it is above their shoulders really, that's all it can get down to because goalkicking is a mindset, it shouldn't be that difficult, really.
"Unfortunately, some of them make it look very difficult."
Lockett kicked 590 behinds to go with his 1,360 goals, an accuracy percentage of just under 70.
Only four active players, Tory Dickson, Ben McEvoy, Tom McDonald and Ben Cunnington (min. 50 scoring shots) in the entire competition have a better percentage.
The top five active players in the all-time goalkicking standings are Buddy Franklin (58%), Jack Riewoldt (63%), Jarryd Roughead (61%), Eddie Betts (68%) and Josh Kennedy (65%).
Lockett believes that problems modern players face in front of goals are largely mental.
"Sometimes it can be technique, everyone's got a little bit of a different technique with it, but the basics should always be the same," he said.
"I think they overthink it, instead of just going back and keeping it nice and simple... they overthink it, and then all of sudden become robotic and they're not thinking about what they should be doing which is just kicking the ball."
