You should of gone to specsavers !!!

A superbly considered, reasoned and well thought out response. I'd expect nothing less.

My mince pies are perfectly fine. Ta.

Dont get me wrong Royston is doing a great job at FB and should only be replaced in that position by BK if Shad is moved to centres and whitehead back in the front row, with the team now getting some form, IMO BK has the quality to inject more confidence into the team just because of his quality

Stats for selected Bulls players and the others GB listed.

Name------tackles; missed; % missed

Kearney-------73; 26; 35%
L'estrange-----342; 32; 9%
Ah Van--------153; 33; 22%
Chase---------149; 40; 27%
Soliola---------305; 34; 11%
Witt-----------244; 36; 15%
Galea----------423; 35; 8%
Dureau---------191; 46; 24%
Monaghan------375; 32; 9%

What does this tell us?

1 - Other "key" players have indeed missed more tackles than Kearney.
2 - Kearney has missed a significantly bigger % of his tackles than any of the others - over four times as many per tackle as some of the others.

What does it NOT tell us?

1 - How many tackles BK missed playing at 6 c/w at 1?
2 - What ELSE BK did that contributed significantly to our performance on the field.
3 - How many matches each player has played, and what the match averages are.*

Can we conclude anything form the missed tackle stats?

Even though GB's figures could be viewed as misleading in isolation - the figures I have quoted maybe give a more balanced picture - he is surely spot on when he points out that to judge a player - one who most of us view (or, for those with short memories, viewed) as being our most important creative and threatening player on the park - by a single stat is disingenuous at best.

* EDIT: BK played 11 matches, so he missed 2.36 tackles per match. Chase played 15 matches, so he missed 2.67 tackles per match. So did Monaghan, so he missed 2.13 tackles per match. Durerau played 14 matches so he missed 1.92 tackles per match.

yup

But this won't prevent B4C getting herself in a tizz.

Btw, same stats for Whitehead and Lynch, and also James Graham and Morley:

Whitehead----411; 49; 12%
Lynch---------445; 7; 1.6%
Graham-------368; 10; 2.7%
Morley--------370; 20; 5.4%

Any Lynch-baggers around care to comment?

Other thing around BKs missed tackles is how many were last line "we've been cut to shreds" misses. There were tackles he "missed" in the Wigan game where there was no chance in hell of anyone making them. Fullback always gets made to look like a tit in a bad defensive performance.

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Any full back that gets massively exposed by other people's mistakes is going to look bad.

Is it just me, or (on this occasion) is B4C2010 on the wrong end of a right good stonking on the subject of BK?

To be fair i reckon both would be snapped up quite sharpish by top 8 teams if FOC