I then did the others
Heres my commentary as I was doing it

1st half
Bullock comes on and played 17mins makes 7 hit ups and 10 tackles (no misses)
Clarke plays 7mins makes 1 hit up and 9 tackles (no misses)

Compare that to BFUT
3 hit ups
8 tackles and 4 misses

What I will say is partington will have done double the amount of work as BFUT easily (not counted his 1st half stats though).

So I did Partingtons and Lockers 1st half

Partington 33mins
Hit ups 9
Tackles 23 (plus 1 miss)

Lockers 21mins
Hit ups 5
Tackles 19 (plus 1 miss)

The reply I got from one of the lads on the chat was :-

Partington made more tackles and carries on Thursday that Clubb has in all 3 games put gether.

He was right!!!

My final comment was this
Overall 29mins

14 attempted tackles (4 misses)
8 hit ups (5 of them in last 6 minutes 10 yards from Toronto line)

#Imnotobsessedwithbfut


From official site he attempted 16 tackles with 3 misses (they must count 4th man in and just putting your hands on the other tackles back as a Tackle!
But I wasnt far off

It was really interesting just watching individual players and not concentrate on the game as such.

I did Lockers and Partingon (and I'm not a massive Partington fan) as they were involved in everything that first 20mins
Dont forget Lockers acted as a pivot around 14/15 times as well as the above.

With regards to what I did I counted tackles and misses separately, I can only assume when it says Tony clubb 16 tackles that this includes the misses as well? There is absolutely zero way he made 16 tackles even if you include the 4th man in hand on the back tackles

I thought he went pretty well again. He looks much fitter than he did when I saw him at Leigh and that looks to be really helping him. He wouldn’t have been a Wane style prop because he stands up in the tackle and continues to try and wrestle and drive his legs forward. He looked for the offload yesterday as well and did pretty well in defence. All in all it’s been a really solid opening couple of games for him.

like previously mentioned did well runs hard and tries to make metres instead of hitting the ground while clubb on the other hand ...... enough said !

Clark looked a handful again. Very solid start and looking promising for the rest of the season. Unusual for us to have a couple of props, alongside Bullock, who make a real impact off the bench and bring something different. I think we've been so used to 'more of the same' style rotation of our props that having 2 come on who look to keep their feet, bust tackles and offload is really adding options. Good to see.

I feel I have to mention Clubb as I've been so vocal about his failings over the first few weeks. Yesterday was much better. Increased his workload significantly and, perhaps more importantly, was making himself available as an option all the time he was on. Couple of good touches (his eagerness to get to the loose ball and his 'slip catch' being the highlight) and all in all a performance more in keeping with that of a senior prop.

In an ideal world I'd still like him to be more aggressive in his carries and look to bust the line and he also needs to up his game time by another 10 minutes or so (I think he did 31 yesterday) but, all in all, much better from TC.

It was a joy to see our forwards actually... going forward! (And I include Clubb in that)
Gives the backs a platform to create.
RL is a simple game when it's broken down into basics. Just need to get the discipline sorted, especially at the back end of the tackle count, and we'll be reet.

What i don't understand with Clubb is why he isn't on the bench and come on after 25-30 minutes of the first half have a rest at half time and do another 10-15 minutes,starting with Bullock and Partington