GLOUCESTER head coach Bryan Redpath will decide this week whether to let Nicky Robinson continue with the kicking duties.

Welsh international Robinson missed a total of six kicks last weekend in the 22-10 defeat to Aviva Premiership new boys Exeter Chiefs in the opening game of the 2010/11 campaign.

Former Scottish international Redpath refused to be drawn on if Robinson would be the man with the tee against Leeds on Saturday with Tim Taylor more than capable of stepping in to the breach.

"We will worry about that next week," said former scrum-half Redpath.

"He (Robinson) had a bad day. He hit the post twice and missed two others so that is just one of those things with kickers.

"But we needed them and especially when it compounded all the other mistakes that were going on.

"As a collective, Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu and James Simpson-Daniel were the only ones that looked sharp, outside that I would not say there were many others."

Last season former Cardiff Blue Robinson, was one of the best kickers in the Premiership.

He finished third top point scorer with 198 behind Leicester's Toby Flood and Newcastle's Jimmy Gopperth.

In his 21 appearances, 17 starts and four from the bench, he landed a total of 67 out of 99 kicks with a success percentage of 67.68, which was 17th overall.

Former Kingsholm stars Ryan Lamb of London Irish, Willie Walker of Worcester and Olly Barkley of Bath had better percentages as did youngster Freddie Burns who was injured last week.

Robinson is ironically set to feature in a number of kicking master classes at Kingsholm throughout September and October.

During pre-season Gloucester did not take the opportunity to kick at goal when they won penalties instead choosing to test out their contact area.

Robinson only played a total of 30 minutes of the pre-season friendly against Magners League champions Ospreys after problems with a tight calf.

And Redpath said he was at a loss as to why his players failed to produce the goods in their first game of the new campaign after a good pre-season.

"I can't explain it, when we have been very efficient in the last three weeks whether that was pressure these are the things you have to find out," added Redpath.

"Whether it's expectation or a little bit of nerves or maybe we had everything to lose and Exeter had nothing to lose. Perhaps that was a little bit of it, I don't know."