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| It’s not the issue of whether the OPTA team of the week is any good – the stats are the stats and no one’s arguing with them for this week. The amusing thing about Clarke’s segment was that he chose to look at this particular item in this particular week.
Had Wigan beaten Wire, you can bet his analysis would have focused largely on that game and taken in details of team tackles made, line speed of defence, metres made by the various packs, line breaks, attacking kicks, the parts of the field the play-the-balls took place in, blah, blah, blah.
However, Clarke must have had his minions trawling the statistical world for some kind of item which featured precisely no Wire or Wigan players so that he could pretend that their game didn’t actually happen, and instead, plausibly discuss a completely different – albeit still valid – aspect of the week’s stats. I can imagine his delight when someone reported finding the OPTA team of the week stats to him.
I do like him – he’s such a comic figure these days that it amuses me listening to his arguments and skewed logic, but I don't let him wind me up.
As it happens, I found this week’s analysis far more satisfying than any faux Wire eulogy he could have trotted out. Instead, we had a demonstration of own belief that Wigan are still the best side: achieved by completely overlooking all aspects of what many would describe as the “biggest game of the season” - a potentially pivotal (and fifth successive) Wigan league defeat at the hands of their top-two rivals.
I look forward to next week's pearls of wisdom.
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63027_1334928139.jpg The Wire and Tranmere Rovers you can't go wrong
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A very good friend of mine always uses this line.
"If Saints were playing for my life, I'd still want them to lose"[/quote:3kmnmmz2]:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_63027.jpg |
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| Quote: wolfinwidnes "At least he showed why games were won and lost made it easy to understand and didn't just read figures from a teleprompter'"
Exactly he had shown why a try was scored rather than saying Saints had 2 more PTB's than Wakefield but still lost
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46584_1279360105.jpg Warrington RLFC: The Wire, NOT Warrington Wolves
FORZA WIRE:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_46584.jpg |
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| So a thread on a Warrington forum is critical of blatantly Wigan biased Phil Clarke, and then someone suggests that blatantly Warrington biased Paul Cullen was much better.
Whodathunkit?
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24098_1261579444.jpg Squadbuilder Member.
Wembley 09 - if it never gets better than that, at least I was there....
Wembley 10 - it did........and I was there again.
2011 - SL League Leaders.
2012 - CC Winners...great day, great friends
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| Dont watch it anymore, adds nothing.
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| Clarkey's stats are nonsense hence the reason they dumped the Wankometer, it almost always showed the wrong side winning until the last 5 minutes.
If you want to know what wins games, watch the bleeding match !
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Black Backgrounds/Scooter.gif Looking forward to the future......
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| Quote: Rogues Gallery "
I suppose it was Clarke's fault that Sam got COCK of the month?'"
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