Have done the first half of the fancy stats.
A few interesting takeaways.
- Zero handling errors. Just the Kennedy thing and the Nicho kick that went way dead to give up a 7 tackle set
- Lots of set restarts and penalties though. The Wilton and disrupter ones were pretty soft so hard to blame either player on those
- Other than for kicks, or to dive on a loose ball or pass from dummy half, Trindall touched the ball just once.
- just two middle forward runs in the attacking 25
- not a single good ball set other than the one where they scored on tackle 0 from the scrum
- zero long shifts. A few 2-3 pass shifts to edges around midfield
- Ronnie wasn’t just a beast on the tries. Some of his yardage carries, tackles and kick defusals were outstanding
- Souths were very good
Basically the entire first half was an arm wrestle where both teams were completing at a high rate and put their kicks in the right places. The Sharks effectively spent almost the entire 40 minutes either defending or running yardage sets. 16-6 at half time after that type of 40 minutes was a great result.