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B.M wrote: ↑Sun 12 May 2024 12:24am
Marshall was enormous
23 contested possessions
A StK all time record - since that data has been recorded
I believe that the 23 were all balls he took from the ruck and kicked particularly seeing as he only had 28 possessions - so it is hardly 'contested' - two players - one trying to tap the ball to his teams advantage - one just grabbing it and blasting away - in a 50/50 crap shoot
Marshall was not special yesterday - he was selfish (Or had been instructed to ruck that way) - but either option resulted in a very poor ruck performance.
The player on 22 contested possessions (Stewie Leowe) should feel aggrieved (if they cared) - but players like Hayes, Steven, Harvey, Ball, Montagna and Crouch - who also make up the list of 20+ in a game would look at this and ask how RoMa gets contested possessions - it is like breaking a possession record of 55 when you kick in from full back and the opposition kicks 50 points.
24 kicks - 539 metres gained so about 25 metres per kick - yeah nah - and most of them 'headless chook' kicks.
“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
― Aristophanes
If you have a Bee in your Bonnet - I can assist you with that - but it WILL involve some smacking upside the head!
Says something about the rest of the clearance midfield that he’d feel the need to make the clearance himself. But as you pointed out, there’s a fair possibility he was instructed to do it.
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B.M wrote: ↑Sun 12 May 2024 11:04am
So he took 23 from the ruck + 37 Hit outs
That’s 60 ruck contests he won
I don’t believe that
So did his kicks from the ruck contest not count - or maybe they were included in the 37 Hit Outs.
HE TOOK THE BALL OUT OF THE RUCK AND KICKED THE BALL!!! That has to be counted as a kick - he had 24 kicks and 4 handballs - where did the 23 contested come from?
Or did you not see him kicking it out of a ruck contest?
Also - if these kicks were Uncontested - how was that only 7 - he kicked it out of the ruck more than 7 times.
“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
― Aristophanes
If you have a Bee in your Bonnet - I can assist you with that - but it WILL involve some smacking upside the head!
The analysis is, if Marshall had such clearance stats, he playing as a ruckman, what does that leave?
The more useless statistic is Steele because what did he generate with ball in hand (when not tackling)?
How many times did Steele control from the contest either kicking forward (including to 6/6/6) or dishing off to the bypass in space?
And then look at the remainder and their contributions
The pressure put on our defence also charged with rebound is enormous - and without their efforts yesterday we would have lost by 100 points not 5
Some on this site should move on from their obsessions with certain players ad nausea and instead focus on where the problem really is
Then there is the problem that our elite runners are running defensively - the reason being that our midfield do not have the leg speed to chase and pressure and cut lines
So not only can’t they get forward they cannot defend their opposition apart from wrapping a tackle under the ruck contest - so the ball in opposition hands