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How Robin kick-started a revolution with his round-the-corner style

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The Rugby Paper Team
28 October 2018

THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW
PETER JACKSON

ROBIN Williams probably did more to revolutionise the art of goalkicking than anyone. In doing so he began a trend that put the toe-end ‘torpedo’ specialists out of business.
From his debut in the senior game as a teenager during the late Sixties, Williams began perfecting a more reliable means of bisecting the posts, the round-the-corner kicking brought to the international stage by Barry John at round about the same time. Williams did it to devastating effect, never more so than when Pontypool won the unofficial Welsh club title in 197...

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