Klem Bupa-Berg
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We put too much emphasis on stats nowadays. It's not the NFL. Stats don't show that desperate dive to make a tackle or busting your balls to fill a defensive gap or putting your hand up for a big run when it's needed.
Stats are crap. They mean very little
I agree on your points of desperate dive or filling a gap etc but stats are an important part of the game. Especially with the coaches.
Heres a quote from Gary Freeman in a article 'Williams was bought by the Dogs to give their forward pack thrust and power. They wanted him terrorising smaller men on the edges and breaking the line to feed any number of eager supports.He can be a menacing unit in defence as well but we haven’t seen anything like the best from one of the NRL’s most powerful athletes.I am not saying that T-Rex has been playing badly. I am saying that I expected him to be showing much more purpose and involvement for his old coach at a new club.'
Yes we havent seen the purpose and involvement he should be as Gary Freeman points out and us fans want. But he has been improving, there may be a missed tackle in a game, but he is targeted like Canterbury did last year when we played Manly. What the stats lack is the much more purpose as you pointed out. That hasnt come yet, but he has been improving. I think all Tegga is pointing out is he sees improvement when he has watched the games and the stats back it up. You cannot call stats crap or mean very little, its how you use and look at them that make great coaches and play a percentage in player evaluation of a game.
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