Stats from our last game

[madunit]

Just reading through the Big League, it looks like our defence has improved markedly.

Collis made 26 tackles and missed 5, but thats the most tackles he's made in a game this year.

Lawrence made 15 and missed 1. Gibbs made 23 and missed 2.

Farah made 61 tackles, and missed just 6. thats mammoth!

Galloway made 31 tackles, 13 hit ups, made 100 metres and played for 54 minutes. Hopefully we can get an extra 10 minutes out of him this week

On the bench, Galea made 30 tackles in 44 minutes and 9 hit ups for 68 metres. These stats outshine those of Te'o's.

Te'o was a bit lazy statistically. He played 9 minutes less than Galloway, made 12 less tackles, missed just as many (3), made 8 less hit ups and 61 less metres. That's not good enough for a back rower. The comparison is worse when done against his back row partner Heighington

Heighington 37 tackles (0 missed)
Te'o 19 tackles (3 missed)

Heighington 18 Hit ups for 125 metres
Te'o 5 hit ups for 39 metres

Now admittedly Heighington played 76 minutes compare Te'o's 45, but even if you doubled all of Te'o's stats, he would still be behind. (he'd have one tackle more in 90 mins, compared to Heighno's 76 mins)

Marshall didn't make a hit up/ run at the line or dummy half run at all. He didn't make a signle metre. He also had 3 of the teams 16 handling errors. Tuiaki had 4 handling errors.

 

[steven_tiger]

Galloway made 31 tackles, 13 hit ups, made 100 metres and played for 54 minutes. Hopefully we can get an extra 10 minutes out of him this week.

Considering he seemed to get pushed back on every second hit up (on more than 1 occasion 8+metres) those stats aren't too bad for Sauce.

 

[moller]

And in Galloway's case, mind-numbingly slow play-the-balls on the play previously.

 

[madunit]

And in Galloway's case, mind-numbingly slow play-the-balls on the play previously.

that comes down to their forwards being stronger/heavier, allowing them to roll the attacker onto their back.

That's a smart tactic that will always work against teams with smaller forward packs which also rely heavily on the services of their hooker.

 

[Mish]

Thanks for the stats, fantastic to see the defense improve, solid defense will push us further up that ladder.... dav Q and co will have to really scream loud for us to hear them while they are allllllllllllllllll the way down the bottom.

 

[Tiger Hawk]

Just on those Collis numbers, there were a couple I recall on Willie where he made the initial contact which effectively stopped the big fella but then other players came in and finished him off after Collis had dropped off the get back in the defensive line - I wonder if they count those as missed tackles?

I noticed Lawrence's defence had improved as well.

You just have to look at their tries to know we defended well, 1 off a 2 metre forward pass, 1 off an intercepted kick and the third was admittedly off a good (albeit slightly arsey) off-load. Mason dropped it 3 times right in front of me in that first half. It was our attack that was stagnate and really highlighted by Benji's numbers. What were Robbie's runs/metres like MU?

 

[Champ]

Ben Te'o needs to be moved to the bench ASAP. he is an impact player, not a meter eater.