Re: New Signing to be announced tomorrow : Fri May 06, 2011 3:01 pm  

Bulls4Champs2010 wrote:

Good stats dont make a good player. Look at Hebert for example.

who do you consider to be a good player amongst the backs? Kearney? who makes one third of the number of tackles Herbert does in a game, and has a three times worse missed tackle percentage, one third the number of tries per game, less than half the number of assists than Herbert? Yes he makes fewer errors a game than Herbert, but it is still high compared to a lot of the other backs, third worst in fact.

And yes, before you say it, I agree that Kearneys stats would be better in a team that was had few injury problems and was gelling, but so would Herberts, even more so if he had a regular stand off partnership. In fact a specialist SO would also help Kearney, so lets hope the signings are both a forward and a SO.

Re: New Signing to be announced tomorrow : Fri May 06, 2011 3:04 pm  

martinwildbull wrote:

who do you consider to be a good player amongst the backs? Kearney? who makes one third of the number of tackles Herbert does in a game, and has a three times worse missed tackle percentage, one third the number of tries per game, less than half the number of assists than Herbert? Yes he makes fewer errors a game than Herbert, but it is still high compared to a lot of the other backs, third worst in fact.

He actually thinks Kearney is a "week link"

Re: New Signing to be announced tomorrow : Fri May 06, 2011 3:36 pm  

tigertot wrote:

Very true. You've made 2016 posts for example.

Yep, that doesnt make me a good player.

Re: New Signing to be announced tomorrow : Fri May 06, 2011 3:42 pm  

AaronBull wrote:

He actually thinks Kearney is a "week link"

Bless him

Re: New Signing to be announced tomorrow : Fri May 06, 2011 3:43 pm  

Heath seems to fit the cheeky scrum half mould that everybody wants Herbert to fit, that try at Crusaders had Mr Lowes stamp all over it.

but referring back to my question, I think the player that has exceeded a lot of expectations based on the stats is Royston, and he can only get better with more SL games behind him.

I agree that statistics dont tell the whole tale. RL is a combination of graft and creativity, the stats mostly tell you about the first rather than the second. but the graft comes first.

Re: New Signing to be announced tomorrow : Fri May 06, 2011 3:53 pm  

martinwildbull wrote:

but referring back to my question, I think the player that has exceeded a lot of expectations based on the stats is Royston, and he can only get better with more SL games behind him.

Agree with Royston, think he looks the part. We'll know for sure over the next few weeks as he should get a long run in the team at fullback. Only silver lining at the moment.

Keep seeing him running through looking for passes that just aren't coming, once someone gets on his wavelength I think he'll start picking up some tries.

Re: New Signing to be announced tomorrow : Fri May 06, 2011 3:55 pm  

quinny wrote:

sorry its not mason.....well not yet anyway. I am not going to say who but desperate situations call for desperate measures............bizaare really but sorry i cant say at the minute and this is not a wind up

The new signing announcement that never happened, ah well tomorrow's another day...

Re: New Signing to be announced tomorrow : Fri May 06, 2011 4:08 pm  

jockabull wrote:

Agree with Royston, think he looks the part. We'll know for sure over the next few weeks as he should get a long run in the team at fullback. Only silver lining at the moment.

Keep seeing him running through looking for passes that just aren't coming, once someone gets on his wavelength I think he'll start picking up some tries.

Didn't rate Royston at first but these last couple of games i have been really impressed by his tackling at fullback. he has hit some textbook tackles and much better at Kearney at tackling from fullback! With a bit more creativity in the team i could see him getting plenty of tries but at the moment he is just a bit too small to break the line himself.

Re: New Signing to be announced tomorrow : Fri May 06, 2011 4:13 pm  

His game is based around backing up though, not breaking the line?

Re: New Signing to be announced tomorrow : Fri May 06, 2011 4:15 pm  

I know but with our squad at the moment there is nobody smart enough to give that pass so his ability is taken away!