Another solid win over the Dragons and you could say that we are their bogey team. Good all-round team performance but just what do the stats say?
Tries
The Eels scored 4 tries to the Dragons 2; Clint Gutherson scoring 2 of those, Michael Jennings & Bevan French with the other 2. Nene Macdonald & Paul Vaughan with the Dragons two tries.
Try Assists
Just one try assist for each team; Mitchell Moses for the Eels and Jason Nightingale for the Dragons.
Line-Breaks
The Dragons, remarkably, had five line-breaks to the Eels 1. Clint Gutherson had the sole line-break for the Eels. Paul Vaughan led the game and the Dragons with 2 line-breaks; Tim Lafai, Nene Macdonald & Kalifa Fai Fai Loa each had one.
Line-Break Assists
The Dragons had four line-break assists to the Eels 0. Jason Nightingale had three of these and Tim Lafai had one.
Tackle Breaks
The Dragons had 31 tackle breaks, 15 more than the Eels who had just 16.
Jason Nightingale & Tim Lafai both had 4 tackle breaks each.
Brad Takairangi, Clint Gutherson & Manu Ma'u all had three tackle breaks for the Eels.
Offloads
The Eels had just 5 offloads to the Dragons 14.
Jack de Belin had the most offloads for the Dragons and in the game with 3.
Manu Ma'u had two offloads for the Eels.
Tackles
Both teams made 350 tackles apiece; Manu Ma'u leading the Eels with 41 tackles & Cameron McInnes leading the Dragons and the game with 47.
Missed Tackles
The Eels missed a whopping 34 missed tackles in the game compared to the Dragons 19.
Brad Takairangi, Nathan Brown, Beau Scott & Michael Jennings all missed 4 tackles for the Eels.
Josh McCrone also missed four tackles for the Dragons.
Errors
There was a total of 21 errors in the game; 11 to the Dragons & 10 to the Eels.
Corey Norman made 2 errors for the Eels.
Tim Lafai had almost half the total number of errors for the Dragons with 5.
Penalties Conceded
The Eels conceded 5 penalties to the Dragons 1.
Daniel Alvaro gave away 2 penalties and Jack de Belin gave away the Dragons only penalty.
Total Run Metres
The Dragons made a total of 1510m from 172 runs at an average of 8.78m per run.
The Eels made a total of 1509m from 159 runs at an average of 9.49m per run.
Dummy Half Runs
Clint Gutherson led the Eels in dummy half runs with 38m from 2 dummy half runs at an average of 19m per dummy half run.
Cam McInnes led the Dragons in this category with 27m from 3 dummy half runs at an average of 9m per dummy half run.
Possession
Possession was dead even at 50% apiece.
Completions
The Eels completed 28/36 sets at 78%.
The Dragons completed 26/35 at 74%.
Player Stats
4. Clint Gutherson - 80 minutes, 2 tries, 3 goals, 238m from 12 runs (19.83m per run), 3 tackle breaks, 4 tackles, 1 line-break & 1 missed tackle.
2. Semi Radradra - 80 minutes, 170m from 16 runs (10.63m per run), 1 tackle break, 7 tackles, 1 error & 1 missed tackle.
3. Brad Takairangi - 80 minutes, 94 minutes from 11 runs (8.55m per run), 3 tackle breaks, 8 tackles, 1 offload & 4 missed tackles.
20. Michael Jennings - 80 minutes, 1 try, 118m from 8 runs (14.75m per run), 19 tackles, 1 error & 4 missed tackles.
1. Bevan French - 80 minutes, 1 try, 16m from 2 runs (8m per run), 1 tackle break, 10 tackles, 1 error & 3 missed tackles.
6. Corey Norman - 80 minutes, 39m from 5 runs (7.8m per run), 21 tackles, 2 errors & 1 penalty conceded.
7. Mitch Moses - 80 minutes, 20m from 2 runs (10m per run), 1 try assist, 20 tackles, 1 offload, 1 error & 2 missed tackles.
8. Daniel Alvaro - 32 minutes, 93m from 12 runs (7.75m per run), 1 tackle break, 23 tackles, 2 penalties conceded & 3 missed tackles.
9. Kaysa Pritchard - 23 minutes, 8m from 1 run (8m per run), 20 tackles, 1 error & 1 penalty conceded.
10. Tim Mannah - 30 minutes, 81m from 10 runs (8.1m per run) & 19 tackles.
11. Manu Ma'u - 80 minutes, 173m from 20 runs (8.65m per run), 3 tackle breaks, 41 tackles, 2 offloads, 1 error, 1 penalty conceded & 3 missed tackles.
16. Kenny Edwards - 80 minutes, 68m from 11 runs (6.18m per run), 1 tackle break, 36 tackles, 2 errors & 1 missed tackle.
13. Nathan Brown - 80 minutes, 184m from 23 runs (8m per run), 2 tackle breaks, 33 tackles, 1 offload & 4 missed tackles.
14. Beau Scott - 42 minutes, 69m from 8 runs (8.63m per run), 1 tackle break, 29 tackles & 4 errors.
15. Suaia Matagi - 32 minutes, 82m from 10 runs (8.2m per run), 17 tackles & 3 missed tackles.
17. Will Smith - 57 minutes, 2m from 1 run (2m per run), 31 tackles & 1 missed tackle.
19. Siosaia Vave - 29 minutes, 71m from 8 runs (8.88m per run) & 12 tackles.
As always, any questions or any desire to see other stats, holla.
Replies
What the stats don't show is that our kicking game was far superior to St George. This was a critical factor to putting pressure on the Dragons, in lieu of penalties. We weren't relying on just one kicker, and in fact we had four out there, which created doubt in the opposition defence. We may also have missed a lot of tackles, but we scrambled in defence of our own line.
yesterday was a clone of how parra should play all games in my view, kicking to the corners ,gatho at fullback, french on the wing, and jennings on the right ,and taka on the left..
out of the game it was sad that we lost our hooker , we need to buy one no doubt, alarm bells are ringing in my view with tim mannah, hes getting opened up in the head almost week after week, tim will have huge problems if this keeps up, i think it time tim retired or moves on, at the least he should wear head gear..
the team went well and will smith was a blessing he was on our bench...
parra on 16 points with a bye this week, will take them to 18 points with another bye coming will be on 20 points. so after that we need 5 wins to finish on 30 points,which should make the 8... or maybe 28 points..
parra needs to take the bulldogs , before the storm game....will we get 4 to 5 more wins?, i think yes.
We play the storm without their origin players also
You'd boo Santa Claus mate
Excellent, I'll add it to my list of lists that I'm on.
What does it also say about saints? Who've had an off season with halves..?
Fong, we all know how much you hate the Eels. Just look at your avatar. Any proud Eels supporter could never stoop that low. If you don't like the club or the team, you are welcome to disappear mate.
You can only beat who's in front of you Frankie. It's clear the coaching staff wasn't happy with the performance. BA said as much in the presser that it's always good to get a win but the side has to be a lot better in their completion rate and staying in the game. We were fortunate the Dragons have been struggling the past couple of weeks but at the same time we still did enough to beat them and we only had 15 men with about 20 minutes to go.
-
1
-
2
-
3
-
4
-
5
of 5 Next