With stats you need to know when they happened, who was on the field, was it mainly our reserves also was there 1 big run that caused 5 misses etc
Plus with missed tackles players often drop off tackles on purpose when there are more than 2 in the tackle to get back in position.
Spot on. Exactly missing a tackle 20m , 30m 40m out from the opposition own line doesn't have the same effect as missing those tackles in your own defensive red zone. Also who missed the tackle. Believe it or not I was surprised to see that JDB was the main offender last night, missing 6. On another issue I thought that Connor Muhleisen was outstanding in defence, he reminded me of a young Andrew McCullough, made 42 tackles only missed 2 so a very high efficiency rating. Hopefully he will be at the very least on the bench in game 1 substituting for Liddle.
In my day the third person into a tackle wouldn't be credited a tackle stat, may have changed nowadays.
I don't know either. Just guessing.
I'm surprised by that. For the most part, I thought the defence was rock solid.
Me as well, JDB - 6, Su'a - 4, M Molo - 3 were the main offender's
I remember seeing JDB at least once dive to stop a player but miss. Those must have been counted as missed tackles.
The official definition from the NRL website is : Missed tackles – Defensive player does not bring player to ground or complete tackle. Another more relevant is : When a player has an opportunity to tackle an attacker with the ball, and either falls off the tackle or misses him completely. Hope this helps
Actually noticed JDB fall of a few tackles last night
Wonder if the club is going to give him one more year. Maybe they've told him 'no' and he's lost motivation. I'm in favour of giving him one more year. He was often playing 80min in the middle last year.
Agree
We now have an abundance of back rowers. I hope they give him the opportunity to finish his career next season with us. I have my doubts about Su'a resigning.
I think we sign him up again, maybe 1 year + option at minimum, wouldn't surprise me 2 year deal as well..
1 year at a time. He is still one of if not our best forward but he might go downhill quickly. It happens.
Wow that's not good then , must have got lost with all the hype of a win and didn't notice that ........
Our red zone defence was good but it was against a poor team that lacked direction and prowess. The count was 53 tackles in our red zone. Now that to me says that they had field position far too often at the wrong end of the field. Now imagine what a team in the top 8 would do with those figures.