we weren't watching you

Like you say, stats do not give the full picture. They are indicative of offensive work rate when it comes to carries though. 8 carries is 8 carries.

They're also illustrative that the vastly experienced Kirke only carried the ball once more than the young lad on debut.

My gripe with Kirke has always been about his lack of carries.

I'm surprise that he only had 8 carries. I thought from watching the game he took the ball up quite a lot. Without being bothered to look through the game again, I'll retract the comment. He should have taken the ball up more than that. He had a long enough amount of pitch time

Kirke was playing prop and carried the ball up the middle. I don't want to watch a team that hits the ball up the middle all game. Not sure i'm worried about that stat in that game. A lot of Kylie's carries were kick off returns as well which probably bulked up his number above Kirke's.

I'm not. It's actually a step up.