Team for Saints?

Quote: Adeybull "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

He also played some games at 7 and played well. I can't remember who played stand off but prior to Jeffries lets be honest it's been AN Other. I like BK but the missed tackle stat does support what I've thought watching him from the stand. With exception of the Webb tackle in the Leeds game I can't think of a 1 on 1 tackle he's actually made while defending at FB. Having said that there's lots of halves who aren't defensively solid but in a team as fragile as we have been we cannot protect him.

Line call for me, a classy player with the ball who has always given everything but in a team that is defensively suspect, he stands out.