The also murky stat of Total Try Involvements by Fox has
Hunt 14
Drinkwater 13
DCE / Fogarty / Sj 12
MULITALO / DEdwards / IKatoa 10
7 spine players plus Manu on 9
And then HYNES along with TRINDALL at 8 along with 5 others, of whom 4 are spine.
For Try Contributions (a Matt Moylan special) Hynes sits equal second with 5 (Fogarty has 8).
Dearden, IKatoa, Keary also on 5.
So we have both halves contributing equally, and 'reasonably well' to scoring, in slightly different ways, and a winger much further up the list than any other true outside backs (helped by being equal top try scorer).
From a purely observational point of view Trindall rarely plays the 'straighten up the attack' before the spread role which Moylan was good at and now Hynes does seem to be doing more of. Maybe an area for Trindall to work on.
Are we still talking about Sharks attacking shapes, or just "who is doing good stuff"?
Lets look at this a different way.
If you only include tries where the Sharks scored on edged by taking advantage of numbers and determine “who did what” you get something like…
Warriors
* Brailey to (5 on 4) Hynes to Trindall to Talakai to Mulitalo
* Trindall to Brailey to (4 on 3) Hynes to Talakai to Mulitalo to Talakai
Bulldogs
* Brailey to (5 on 4) Hynes to Wilton to Trindall
* Brailey to (4 on 2) Hynes to WIlton to Talakai, kick for Mulitalo
* Brailey to Hynes to Trindall to (3 on 2) Kennedy to Talakai to Mulitalo to Wilton
Raiders
* Brailey to (5 on 3) Trindall
* Trindall to Hynes, to (2 on 1) Iro to Multialo
* Brailey to (6 on 4) Trindall to Iro
* Brailey to Hynes to (2 on 1) Kennedy, kick for Mulitalo
* Brailey to (5 on 4) Trindall to Hynes to Katoa
Rabbitohs
Brailey to (4 on 3) Hynes to Kennedy to Mulitalo
Brailey to Hynes to (4 on 3) Trindall to Katoa
Sharks have scored just one try where all four spine players featured, and it was a bit of a clunky one (Teig v Bulldogs).
Obviously we are not counting the misses here (how many times they have numbers and don't score - or bomb it) but just looking at the data from tries I'd say that for the Sharks spine players...
- Brailey's contribution has been creating the numerical advantage (either on his own or from the half's call, probably a bit of each)
- Nicho's contribution has been
both in creating the advantage
and executing once he has numbers
- Trindall's contribution has
primarily been in executing when he has numbers, but he
occasionally creates the advantage for someone else
- Kennedy's contribution has
solely been in executing when he has numbers
- The Moylan role in shifts of “dig in to the line with the back rower and create space” doesn’t exist atm.
A few other notes:
- Wilton has featured fairly heavily in the tries, either with the ball or as a decoy - but mostly from Nicho ballplaying on his side (his try v Bulldogs the exception)
- Nikora's only involvement in a try this season was running a decoy/line for the Katoa try against the Rabbitohs
- Sharks haven't scored from a 1 man advantage on the left without Nicho being involved
- Sharks haven't scored on the right without Trindall being involved
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Interesting stuff which could mean something or absolutely nothing, and much of this could turn out to be wrong when looking at non-scoring plays. If we want to understand what is going on with Sharks attacking shapes and roles I reckon this is as good a place as any to start though.