Not the result we wanted and the doomsayers have come out in force but with some positive signs at different parts of the game, how do the stats match up compared to past weeks? Are we improving? Let's take a look.
Tries
The Raiders scored five tries (Cotric, Walker, Leilua, Austin & Rapana) to the Eels 3 (French, Jennings & Pritchard).
Offloads
The Raiders had 10 total offloads, Joey Leilua recording the most for them with 3.
The Eels had one fewer with 9 offloads, with Manu Ma'u, Nathan Brown & Daniel Alvaro all offloading twice.
Tackle Breaks
The Eels had 18 total tackle breaks, with Michael Jennings recording the most with 4.
For the Raiders, they had 35 tackle breaks with Nick Cotric recording a whopping 9 tackle breaks.
Line Breaks
The Eels had three line-breaks (Pritchard, Jennings & French) to the Raiders 4 (Cotric, Croker, Wighton & Rapana).
Line-Break Assists
The Raiders had 3 line-break assists (Cotric, Leilua & Sezer) compared to the Eels 2 (French & Takairangi).
Total Run Metres
The Raiders made 1589 total run metres from 164 carries at an average of 9.69m per run.
The Eels made 1397 total run metres from 158 carries at an average of 8.84m per run.
Dummy Half Metres
The Eels made 139m from 15 dummy half runs at an average of 9.27m per dummy half run.
Whilst Michael Jennings had the most dummy half metres with 52, Josh Hoffman's 11m per dummy half run (33m from 3 runs) was the best average.
For the Raiders, they had 184m from 15 dummy half runs at an average of 12.27m per dummy half run.
Whilst Jordan Rapana made had the most dummy half metres with 62, Nick Cotric's 23.5m per dummy half run (47m from 2 runs) was the best average.
Tackles
The Raiders made 285 tackles with Iosia Soliola recording the most with 34.
The Eels made 346 tackles with Kaysa Pritchard recording the most with 49.
Missed Tackles
The Eels had 35 missed tackles with both Corey Norman & Suaia Matagi missing 6 tackles each.
The Raiders, by contrast, had just 19 missed tackles, with both Shannon Boyd & Iosia Soliola missing 3 tackles each.
Errors
The Raiders made eight total errors, with Nick Cotric & Jordan Rapana both making 2 mistakes.
The Eels made nine total errors, with Semi Radradra & Clint Gutherson both making 2 mistakes.
Penalties Conceded
The Eels conceded 6 penalties with 1 each to 6 different players (Takairangi, Norman, Pritchard, Mannah, Ma'u & Scott).
The Raiders conceded just 4 penalties with 1 each to 4 different players (Austin, Papalii, Taylor & Tapine).
Try Saves
Both teams had one try save to Blake Austin and Semi Radradra respectively.
Player Stats
1. Bevan French - 80 minutes, 61m from 10 runs (6.1m per run), 1 try, 3 tackle breaks, 8 tackles, 1 line-break, 1 line-break assist & 0 missed tackles.
2. Semi Radradra - 80 minutes, 132m from 16 runs (8.25m per run), 1 try save, 1 tackle break, 3 tackles, 2 errors & 1 missed tackle.
3. Michael Jennings - 80 minutes, 103m from 12 runs (8.58m per run), 1 try, 4 tackle breaks, 12 tackles, 1 line-break & 2 missed tackles.
4. Brad Takairangi - 80 minutes, 88m from 12 runs (7.33m per run), 1 try assist, 3 tackle breaks, 7 tackles, 1 line-break assist, 1 error, 1 penalty conceded & 1 missed tackle.
5. Josh Hoffman - 80 minutes, 81m from 9 runs (9m per run), 1 tackle break, 4 tackles, 1 error & 2 missed tackles.
6. Clint Gutherson - 80 minutes, 45m from 5 runs (9m per run), 22 tackles, 1 offload, 2 errors & 3 missed tackles.
7. Corey Norman - 80 minutes, 88m from 11 runs (8m per run), 2 tackle breaks, 17 tackles, 1 penalty conceded & 6 missed tackles.
8. Suaia Matagi - 53 minutes, 87m from 9 runs (9.67m per run), 29 tackles & 6 missed tackles.
9. Kaysa Pritchard - 72 minutes, 14m from 2 runs (7m per run), 1 try, 1 tackle break, 49 tackles, 1 line-break, 1 penalty conceded & 5 missed tackles.
10. Tim Mannah - 31 minutes, 52m from 5 runs (10.4m per run), 27 tackles, 1 error, 1 penalty conceded & 2 missed tackles.
11. Manu Ma'u - 80 minutes, 121m from 13 runs (9.31m per run), 36 tackles, 2 offloads, 1 error, 1 penalty conceded & 2 missed tackles.
16. Frank Pritchard - 66 minutes, 117m from 12 runs (9.75m per run), 22 tackles & 2 missed tackles.
13. Nathan Brown - 68 minutes, 149m from 15 runs (9.93m per run), 2 tackle breaks, 36 tackles, 2 offloads, 1 error & 1 missed tackle.
12. Beau Scott - 47 minutes, 80m from 8 runs (10m per run), 28 tackles, 1 penalty conceded & 1 missed tackle.
15. Daniel Alvaro - 27 minutes, 84m from 9 runs (9.33m per run), 1 tackle break, 19 tackles, 2 offloads & 0 missed tackles.
16. Siosaia Vave - 22 minutes, 77m from 7 runs (11m per run), 17 tackles & 1 missed tackle.
17. David Gower - 17 minutes, 19m from 3 runs (6.33m per run), 10 tackles, 1 offload & 0 missed tackles.
Replies
Vave definitely needs more minutes
He does.
The fact he played so few in this game when he was incredibly solid - as he was last week - does genuinely baffle me.
Tackling seems to be an issue.
I'd be interested in knowing who was 'tackling' when offloads were made. Ie in effective tackles
Ineffective tackles:
Norman - 3
Brown - 3
K. Pritchard - 2
Ma'u - 2
Matagi - 1
Jennings -
Hoffman - 1
Mannah - 1
F. Pritchard - 1
Vave - 1
Gutherson - 0
Radradra - 0
Takairangi - 0
Scott - 0
French - 0
Alvaro - 0
Gower - 0
Exactly as you said.
An ineffective tackle is when you attempt to make a tackle but in the process, you allow the attacking player to offload the ball.
That counts as an ineffective tackle as the player/s were unable to get the player to the ground or to wrap him up.
Matagi's, that's A few too many missed there too. Says it all, overall 35 to their 19 is not what we have to expect from our last year side. Maybe we just focus on defensive drills next week :(
Be interesting to see the breakdown of missed tackles first and second halves, or would that be irrelevant considering who took the field?
We sorely miss Scotts '16 steely leadership but think we showed signs of our backs to the wall steely coming back in the second half. So that's nothing but good to see.
Brown helped and so did Frank good run meters as well.
Alvaro another solid job.
Vave looking the goods as well. Be interesting to see how he goes with more time (I'd say) next week.
Shame Jennings had his blinkers on yesterday when he stuffed up not getting it away. Thought he had a good game otherwise and the stats show that.
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Thought French and Taka missed a couple, guess I was wrong. Taka was getting better assistance out there this week I thought, so that's a big plus. Taka still found himself out a little in no mans land in D but overall it was an improvement by all out that side I thought.
Next week we must go on with what we showed in the second half.
Norman was caught out of position a few times and so that contributed to some bad misses but he's generally much better in defence than that.
Matagi in the middle missing those 6 tackles is more concerning for me. It's actually quite worrying.
I think can break that down, just let me check and I'll reply in a new comment.
Scott is, unfortunately, regressing somewhat and it's a shame.
Brown is good, runs aggressively, but he still has these dumb offloads in him and one of them led to a try for the Raiders.
Vave is, IMO, our most damaging forward right now and the meterage he is making per run illustrates that.
Taka was better in defence because the entire side, for the most part, covered better, defended better and supported each other better.
Taka has never been a bad defender, quite the opposite. And yes, that's the key, we have to continue that 2nd half form.
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