I think possibly the conditions may have played a part in this. I actually envisage with Long we may see some champagne rugby as the pitches dry up and get faster. Also as we gel more and become more confident as a unit

Agree, as a guess i'm sure that the error rate and competion rates would have gone against us had we tried more offloads in the conditions and at this stage of the season. Happy with tight wins for now.

Saints wasn't a tight win, we played some good rugby during that game (well i think we did) and if not for the wrongful sin binning of Tansey we may well have nilled them.

Not many teams will put a big score on Hudds no matter what the conditions are and i felt we tightened up a bit after going 12 in front.
We did what we could not do last year and that is hold on to a winning score and play smart football. Tickle taking an age to kick, kicking for the corners to slow the game down and eat away at the clock etc. All those things came together on friday night and played as much a part in the win as the two tries did.

Interestingly enough, if you divide the number of play the balls we've had by the number of kicks we've made in general play then number you get is 5

and 5 is the number of years since we lifted a trophy (a proper one)

I agree conditions are playing a part but other teams have still offloaded the ball far more than we have. Cant really complain as we are winning games but I think with a few more offloads we will start putting a lot of points on teams. Tansey, Long, Horne etc are always on the shoulder for an offload but none seem to be coming at the moment.

Debatable.

Not just conditions but opponents as well. Two very good teams.
We had 4 offloads against Saints so 8 against Hudds lets hope for 16 against Crusaders

5 drives and a kick is not debatable

It's the one part of our game so far that has been lacking, it must improve as 2nd phase possession is vital when breaking teams down. That said the coniditions are not great right now so maybe we are being sensible in not trying too many.

Phew! Good job I wasn't debating it then.

That's how I'm looking at it for now. Just hope we don't get stuck in the routine of safety first rugby.

12 offloads in 401 carries is closer to 3% than 0.02% No wonder you're not a fan of stats.

0.02% would mean 1 offload per 5000 carries, or on the basis of 200 carries per game, 1 offload in 25 games or once every season. (more if we have a good cup run or make the playoffs obviously)

Not that i am comparing us to Melbourne Storm but for the past 3 seasons they have came last in the amount of offloads category.