Quote Sacred Cow="Sacred Cow"As they say, there’s lies, damn lies & statistics. You don’t always get stats for things like poor defensive reads or a bit of laziness in the defensive line.'"
You don't. But the stats are still facts. It's only the spin that count as the "damn lies"
I've been as big a critic as anyone of Atoni's attacking stars but the all I'm saying is the 'stat' a him commiting 7 defensive errors to Battye's one is not accurate.
If Battye is perfect about everything else, he still only achieved 3 games where he could be said to make 1 defensive error.
Game 1 Atoni made 23 tackles and missed none against Salford 14-13
Game 2 Atoni makes 23 tackles and missed 2 against Rhinos 26-0
Game 3 Atoni makes 31 tackles and misses 1 against Giants 0-8
I'd still lose Atoni as we need someone who has a metre gaining and off load Game. We have plenty who can tackle (ish)
I just don't subscribe to the pile on phylosophy of just blaming everything on someone who has a flaw.