Wednesday, March 17, 2004
The Parramatta Pride website has some great statistics, breaking down each player's statistics and it makes for some interesting reading.
Only one player, outside of Chris Armit who had limited game time, neither missed a tackle or lost the ball and that was Craig Stapleton who absolutely earned his stripes coming off the bench making 17 tackles and eight hit-ups.
The hardest worker, however, was the man many would like to see dumped from the position he currently holds and perhaps from the side - Daniel Wagon. Wagon topped the tackle count at 37 and made the second biggest number of hit ups at 11. The most hitups came from another player who has widely criticised by fans - Wise Kativerata - who took the ball up on twelve occasions.
Michael Vella is another whose performance has been widely criticised and he did not come up well in the stats. He made only six hitups - three fewer than front row partner Corey Pearson, and missed four tackles, two of which resulted in tries. Lee Hopkins also had a game he would rather forget. He made the least number of hitups of any forward with five, missed three tackles and made two handling errors.
Stats show that Adam Dykes was the only dangerous player making a line break and assisting in two tries. Yet even he made two handling errors and missed a tackle.
Only one player, outside of Chris Armit who had limited game time, neither missed a tackle or lost the ball and that was Craig Stapleton who absolutely earned his stripes coming off the bench making 17 tackles and eight hit-ups.
The hardest worker, however, was the man many would like to see dumped from the position he currently holds and perhaps from the side - Daniel Wagon. Wagon topped the tackle count at 37 and made the second biggest number of hit ups at 11. The most hitups came from another player who has widely criticised by fans - Wise Kativerata - who took the ball up on twelve occasions.
Michael Vella is another whose performance has been widely criticised and he did not come up well in the stats. He made only six hitups - three fewer than front row partner Corey Pearson, and missed four tackles, two of which resulted in tries. Lee Hopkins also had a game he would rather forget. He made the least number of hitups of any forward with five, missed three tackles and made two handling errors.
Stats show that Adam Dykes was the only dangerous player making a line break and assisting in two tries. Yet even he made two handling errors and missed a tackle.
