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So is he better off not attempting the tackles he misses? He would make the same amount of tackles per minute but with a 100% tackle effectiveness. Would that really be better?
Maybe we used 25% of our interchanges replacing injured players. We used our second last interchange bringing Matterson back on for RCG and then chasing points with five to go we brought Greig (a strictly attacking player) on for Doorey, with Matterson moving out to the right edge. Hands didn't look like he needed a rest but Doorey certainly did.
There's only eight interchanges and we used two of them replacing injured players you dopey merkin. Hands was doing fine at hooker, so why burn an interchange for no reason? Doorey was the one who needed the rest.
I already told you, tackles per minute is the key stat in the middle. If a bloke is missing more but still making more per minute it just means he is working harder.
Next week will be an easier game than this week's, so I suspect it won't make a lot of difference who starts. But without RCG we might not be able to afford to use two interchanges at dummy half. The only time this year we've done that was against the Tigers.
Yes, by this metric, Mahoney was Canterbury’s best last week against us. By this logic, teams running a train at a defensive weakness = target player demonstrating they are a better defender because they’re busier, even when missing a load of tackles.
Every team targets the hooker in the middle. Who do you think they run at when Hands is on ffs. They have to run at someone.
And Hands has thus far shown he can handle the defensive workload, and Hodgson has shown he cannot.
He would be better off in an Aged home facility.
Except Hands is making fewer tackles per minute, and attempting even fewer, so it's not the same workload. He is far more passive.
Yes, we worked out from the stats that he’s making .03 fewer tackles per minute. Which is 2.4 fewer per 80 minutes. Enormous discrepancy.
And instead of the extra attempted tackles Hodgson is falling off, Hands is doing nothing. How is that any more useful than a missed tackle?
Jakes most redeeming feature by far is his defence. Hes even more solid in D this year than last. Start Hands and use Jake as relief. Either that or share Hands work with Yates. Hodgson hasnt impressed me from minute one. If his sole contribution is leadership, Im yet to see that either. Players may have been taken in by his talk early but Id reckon no bugger is listening now.
Maybe we have had the ball slightly more when Hands is on and he hasn’t needed to make those whopping 2.4 extra tackles per 80 minutes. And maybe we have had the ball longer because we concede less tries while Hands is on and don’t keep kicking off back to the opposition giving them multiple sets in a row.
