Horatio Yed wrote:
Stats mean jack s---, if you're a crap winger in a good team your stats will look better than if you're a good winger in a crap team.
Not saying Saints are crap either, plus Saints this season are not as expansive as Wigan are, so the winger will get less action
"Stats mean jack sh*t" If they don't favour who you feel is better you mean?
Well first of all Saint's aren't a crap team as you so well point out. So while I do agree with your first point, it has no relevance on this match up IMO. Saints are the third best team in the comp with the third best attack.
As for Saints not being as expansive as Wigan this year, that's a fair assessment to make and one I agree with. But is it not then up to the winger to come inside and help his forwards and team mates in general by sharing the workload? One can't just stay out on the wing doing nothing. Charnley has shown his ability to break a game open in Wigan's last two CC matches. Foster was next to anonymous against Wigan except for his party piece kicking, which let Saints down IMO. Because had he converted their third try Saints would have been able to win the match with a try and goal, his miss deflated the Saints team IMO. Anyway back on topic.
Horatio Yed wrote:
Besides those Stats just show Charnley has more of the ball yet also show Foster does more with it, so i'd still go Foster even when presented with those stats.
Foster does more with ball! Granted Foster's scored a single try more and has more clean breaks, but then Foster has played a game more than Charnley.
In every other area Charnley beats Foster. If their stats were closer, and Jamie showed the ability on the field that Josh does then I could then see where your coming from. But at present I don't.
