Our defence

[BurgoShark]

Wow , a bit surprising .
Still feels if we can hold the ball , and not be under the pump , that in theory the missed tackles should go down . ( graph does say no )
Then again , if you defend your line set after set after set , it means you are defending well and not missing tackles or there'd be tries ..
Perhaps It would then be the open field where you might then feel the pinch and then start to miss tackles .

This is the more telling graph.

When you make more tackles, the fatigue doesn't make you worse at defence. It makes you worse at ATTACK.

Teams defend just as well when they are tired, but they struggle to make yards, get pinned in their own end, and the opposition gets more cracks at their line. This is only for middles, but I my guess would be that if I finished this and then added edges and outside backs to this, the trend would continue. That would be in line with the stuff the EyeTest guy did league-wide last year.

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140m difference. That's like having an extra Royce Hunt on your bench.



Note that this graph doesn't reflect "teams with more ball make more metres". It shows that even adjusted for possession rate, the individual attacking output for middle forwards goes down when they have to do a lot of defence.

 

[apezza]

It will be VERY interesting to see our missed tackle stats when we get games with more than 50% possession .
Well done lads - thanks

I look forward to that day!

 

[GF78]

I'm predicting next year we'll be using this thread for our title defence.

In Fitz we trust!

Or for when our Legals address the magistrate following a bizarre off field incident involving a Sea Bass….

 

[bort]

Larson and Moore?

Is that the law firm for the sea bass incident?

 

[egg]

This is the more telling graph.

When you make more tackles, the fatigue doesn't make you worse at defence. It makes you worse at ATTACK.

Teams defend just as well when they are tired, but they struggle to make yards, get pinned in their own end, and the opposition gets more cracks at their line. This is only for middles, but I my guess would be that if I finished this and then added edges and outside backs to this, the trend would continue. That would be in line with the stuff the EyeTest guy did league-wide last year.

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140m difference. That's like having an extra Royce Hunt on your bench.

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Note that this graph doesn't reflect "teams with more ball make more metres". It shows that even adjusted for possession rate, the individual attacking output for middle forwards goes down when they have to do a lot of defence.

Cheers for that
It makes sense

 

[puma1355]

defence has improved out of sight - think Price has brought alot to the coaching ranks

 

[MMsharks]

defence building nicely.

big test is the pointy end of the season, but now is the time to build the foundations of it
doing well. tick!

 

[snowman]

Rudolf 35/35
Finucane 29/29
Tolman 29/29
BHU 22/23
McInnes 33/34
Brailey 42/43
Fifita 24/24

Our ruck defence was amazing on Thursday

 

[HaroldBishop]

Rudolf 35/35
Finucane 29/29
Tolman 29/29
BHU 22/23
McInnes 33/34
Brailey 42/43
Fifita 24/24

Our ruck defence was amazing on Thursday

Still some missed tackles, hope Fitz addresses it.

 

[bort]

One of my favourite things about the win is that Dragons actually played reasonably well and still got thrashed.
A fraction less effort by us and they pick up a couple tries, maybe we score a couple less and we could be staring down another game that went to the wire.
Might seems like a stretch to talk about a four try shift in scoreline but there were enough tries stopped or only just scored with mm in them

 

[MMsharks]

Rudolf 35/35
Finucane 29/29
Tolman 29/29
BHU 22/23
McInnes 33/34
Brailey 42/43
Fifita 24/24

Our ruck defence was amazing on Thursday

Nice!
although BHU, McInnes and brailey need to be put on notice!!! start looking over the shoulder boys!

 

[Tatus]

Nice!
although BHU, McInnes and brailey need to be put on notice!!! start looking over the shoulder boys!

Must be some off-field drama we aren’t aware of for them to put in such poor performances

 

[Sparkles]

I am nervous about Hynes and Nikora. The rest of them have been good.

I'm nervous about Ramien missing games through suspension

 

[Sparkles]

Came to this thread late, but one thing I think is different this year is the emphasis every player is putting on line integrity. It's been interesting to watch our defence move up, shuffle back and around based less on the attack and more on where our defensive line is, making sure they're not the cause of a hole. You actually see them looking around as they consider moving up on a crabbing attacker, and it's now rare that attackers have anywhere to go.

 

[MMsharks]

Must be some off-field drama we aren’t aware of for them to put in such poor performances

i'm sure the media might blow that up somehow.

 

[apezza]

Still some missed tackles, hope Fitz addresses it.

Yep. Some of the board members will be feeling nervous about their jobs!