Hoppa was so awful last game I lost count of the times I cursed his name.
Needs to start running the ball hard and with intent, it's like he plays in slow motion.
He can be very soft and grabby in defence, and will never be an aggressive type player.
Bro WTF are you talking about? "Run ball hard and with intent","very soft and grabby in defense',looks to me you either don't watch our games objectively or you need to see an optometrist! Constructive criticism is great,but you need to back it up with facts not emotional bs.
The following stats are
averaged per game. All stats excludes opposition players and
Bulldogs Frawley,
Brown and
Tualau who have not played more then 2 NRL games this year.
Below are
Hoppa's attacking and defensive stats,compared to the other 18
Bulldog players and 46 NRL centers.
Attack:
Runs:.............................
.........3rd with
14.7...(after props
Klemmer and
Woods);.
.............2nd NRL center (after
P.Sami Titans)
Meters run:....................
.........3rd with
118m..(after props
Klemmer and
Woods);.
.............5th NRL center
Runs over 8m:.........................
4th with
8........(after
Klemmer,
Woods and
RFM);.....
equal.
..7th NRL center
Kick returns and meters:.
..........4th ................(after
Mbye,
B.Morris and
Montoya);..
equal..
7th NRL center
Try assists:.....................
equal 5th..................(best after
spine);...............................
equal 16th NRL center
Line break assists:..........
equal 2nd..................(after
Foran);.....................................
equal..4th NRL center
Tackle breaks:................
equal 3rd with
2.9.....(after
Mbye and
RFM);.......................
equal..
7th NRL center
Offloads:................................
3rd with
1.3.....(after
Woods and
RFM);.....................
equal..4th NRL center
Effective offloads:...................
3rd with
0.9.....(after
Woods and
RFM);.....................
equal..
5th NRL center
General play passes:.................
5th with
6.6....(best after
spine);..........................................
3rd NRL center
***
Hoppa has managed to achieve these stats in a one dimensional,slow,predictable,non creative,forward dominated structured team!
Defense:
Tackles:............................
11th with
12.7...(best of our three-quarters,closest is
J.Morris '
13th'with
9.3);..........
equal 13th NRL center
Tackle efficiency:........
equal 8th with
90% (similar to
JJ with
90% and
Tolman 91%);......................................
equal...
4th NRL center
Missed tackles:..................
15th with..
0.9...(
JJ '
1st' with
2.3 and
Foran '
2nd' with
2.0);.....................................
equal 31st NRL center
Ineffective tackles:..............
9th with
0.7...(
Foran '
1st' with
1.4 and
JJ '
4th' with
1.0);.......................................
equal 11th NRL center
Tries caused:..............
equal 3rd with
0.7...(
Montoya '
1st' with
1.3 and JJ '
4th' with
0.6);.................................
equal 10th NRL center
Line breaks caused:.....
equal 5th with
0.5...(
Montoya '
1st' with
0.7,
Foran '
3rd' with
0.6 and
JJ '
6th' with
0.4);..
equal 15th NRL center
Errors:........................
equal 5th with
0.6...(
Foran '
1st' with
1.1 and
Montoya '
2nd' with
1.0);..........................
equal 26th NRL center
***All 4 members on our right side defense are fairing poorly,it's not exclusive to
Hoppa.This is a due to the poor work rate of the
Bulldogs middle forwards.
Lichaa is the only middle forward with acceptable stats,averaging
32.3 tackles per game (
12th best hooker) for
93% efficiency (
4th best hooker).
Average per game for Props/lock positions: (compared to 89 players, 55 are props and 34 are locks).
Woods:.....
37th (17th prop + 20th as lock);............Tackles
24.0 for
91% efficiency.
Klemmer:.
47th (equal 25th prop + 22nd as lock);..Tackles
21.9 for
93% efficiency.
Fualalo:....
60th (32nd prop + 28th as lock);...........Tackles
20.6 for
92% efficiency.
Tolman:...
52nd (24th lock + 28th as prop);............Tackles
21.5 for
91% efficiency.
Elliott:......
73rd (30th lock + 43rd as prop);............Tackles
17.9 for
90% efficiency.
***
Eastwood and
Fine have not been included because they only averaged
12 tackles (
83% efficiency) and
8 tackles (
94% efficiency) respectively.
I've got no problem in criticizing
Hoppa as I'm about to do to
JJ,if he was playing as poorly as you say.
Do you expect
Hoppa to lead every attacking stat in our team or the NRL? Could it be that our right side attack is poor because
JJ is so pathetic in attack as a 2nd rower?
50 second rowers have played this year after discarding
F.Winterstein (
Manly) and
Sorenson (
Sharks).
JJ doesn't even rate amongst the top 20 attacking second rowers in the NRL.He's the
31st best for meters gained with a poor average of
73m per game.He's totally ineffective with
7.1m in average meters per run only beating
W.Matthews (
Titans) with
6.7m.
After
Pay played
JJ as right center,when
Mbye was injured against
Souths,he quickly realized that we are the only NRL team that needs to carry a dedicated back instead of an impact player,because none of our forwards except for
Fine (if he's on the bench) can play center.This exhausts our interchanges,reducing the bench to a fucking joke! Thank God
Pay used his creativity and turned this precarious situation to our benefit against the
Cows. Besides being caught out of position numerous times
JJ made it easy for
Souths to stack,gang tackle and concentrate on our potent left edge,nullifying it during that important last quarter of the game.That's when you should have been using your fingers and toes to count your curses.