Please let Halfpenny take all the kicks

This is all I ask. Wales cannot afford for Priestland to miss 1 or 2 and then switch over to Halfpenny. The points will be crucial and a few early misses could destroy Priestlands confidence.

I'm not convinced about Halfpenny as a full-time kicker.

If you're that worried about Priestland's confidence crumbling he shouldn't really be playing international rugby.

He's not that bad a kicker.

Halfpenny isn't a great kicker under pressure. The longer ones are usually a bonus and so he feels more at ease. Make Priestland the main man.

It'll be interesting to see how high Halfpenny's percentage is at the end of this season when now that he's the Blues full time kicker (most of the time) I doubt it'll be higher than the other flyhalves - as he's great at distance kicks but can miss a few of the closer range ones that he needs to nail.

Priestlands kicking percentage has been poor, Halfpennys has been better. A no brainer. Nice to have the two on the pitch though. Sexton's kicking for Ireland was never great so perhaps it might not be a big deal.

MaxImise2012 wrote:Halfpenny isn't a great kicker under pressure. The longer ones are usually a bonus and so he feels more at ease. Make Priestland the main man.

Penalty to get your team a place in the world cup final from the half way line? It only dipped under by an inch. Accuracy was great and he normally lands them from further back than that.

He has been sublime since taking over from Parks.

But that wasn't Max's point - there's more pressure on a kicker to land ever single kick from closer in (even if it's close to the touchline) because everyone of those kicks is expected to go over.
When your taking kicks from the halfway line it's a shot to nothing whether they go over as no-one really expects it to go over, so if you miss (as Halfpenny did in the France match) everyones still saying what an awesome kicker you are, while if it goes over it's a bonus.