Quote: NickyKiss "Just been looking at the team stats and the tackles, carries and overall metres made stood out.
Tackles
Wigan-327
HKR-281
Carries
Wigan-159
HKR-186
Metres
Wigan-1256
HKR-1171
It’s little wonder the forwards attacking stats aren’t jumping out when you’re having to make 46 more tackles and are 27 carries behind and that is all based around us giving away 10 penalties to their 5 and making 14 errors. It’s a credit to the lads when we did have the ball that we made more ground than them from far less possession (a couple of big breaks helped obviously).
I’ve seen a couple of comments around various boards saying Byrne’s stats were a disgrace but they really weren’t and the reasons are pointed out by Rogues above. I’m really excited about what he’ll bring this season.'"
When you look at the stats and I remember thinking at half time when the stats were shown, our stats looked like that of a team that should be losing, lower possesions rate, making more tackles and less carries would usually convert to a losing score yet we were comfartably in front and never really looked like going behind.
I never really like looking at the figures for forwards and how many use them to diss a forwards work rate, I have always said in the past, without further information like how many times we actually had possesion when a forward was on the field and from what field position we had possesion, you can't compare a forwards carries/meters made. If every set we had was off a long kick chase down field and therefore the outside backs were there to take the frist 2/3 carries then a foward may only take one drive in the set