Who knows, ya might actually score a goal...or get a rebound and then score a goal, or force your opponent off their game cuz you are actually kicking the ball towards the friggen net (something I can virtually guarantee the other team would find "strange and upsetting").
Ireland are relative minnows in world football and in 1990 they qualified for the first time for the World Cup finals in Italy. They managed to make their way to the quarter finals losing 1-0 to Italy - and they could have forced that match to penalites with which they had managed to eliminate Romania with in the match prior to it
The tactics used were the ugliest that ever graced the "beautiful game". And they had all the simplicity of the two step shuffle mechanism involved in ToE
"put 'em under pressure": which meant running around and closing down each and every opposing player who happened to come into possession of the ball. Give 'em no time to think about sensible ways to move the ball around. This forced the opposition into hasty passes (this in the days before pansy-assed diving entered the game and tackles could be real tackles) and mistakes which returned possession to Ireland
"hit Cascarino" Tony Cascarino was a very tall striker. The ball would be lobbed at his head from any point on the pitch. He would get to many of them positioned as he was somewhere near the edge of the box and nod it down to an goalbound teamate - resulting in a strike towards goal or at least confidence-sapping panic amongst the defenders. Even kickouts from our goalie were aimed at him too. Its called the long ball game.
It devastated the oppostion. Not that we scored many goals but the gameplan of the opposition just couldn't deal with these primitive measures. There was a memorable match with England in the group stages where England were held in their own box for a sustained 10 minutes whilst mortar after mortar was lobbed in at them. The panic in the old enemies camp and the resulting wild clearances back at us had all at home rolling around in the pubs. Ireland held both England and the Netherlands to a 1-1 draw in the group stages and squeezed the Netherlands out of the competition to get to the knockout stages
Come the next world cup the opposition had figured out the tactics (which hadn't changed much) a bit but we still managed to scrape into the knockout stages where the Netherlands exacted revenge for our humiliation of them 4 years previously
And that was that for Ireland in the world cup ever since.
Kicking the ball at the goal in hope of something happening is a tactic already tried and shown not to work in the long term. Which is why the apparently more difficult methods currently used are employed as they are. But I suppose some reprise of the Irish system could always catch a team off guard