STATS HIGHLIGHT WESTS TIGERS CHARGE UP LADDER

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STATS HIGHLIGHT WESTS TIGERS CHARGE UP LADDER
24/08/2011 3:24:26 PM

The exciting rise of the Wests Tigers up the Telstra Premiership ladder can be found in some interesting statistics revealed today by experienced Head Coach Tim Sheens.

Sitting in sixth place on the ladder with two rounds remaining, Wests Tigers will be gunning for their seventh consecutive victory when they tackle Gold Coast Titans at Campbelltown Sports Stadium.

The following statistics were provided to weststigers.com.au from Sheens and the Club’s outstanding young Video and Statistic Analyst, Craig Crossman.

Did you know

- Wests Tigers aren’t favouring any particular sides of field with 213 passes against Parramatta split equally - 107 left, 106 right

- Total Team Tackle efficiency has increased past 4 games (Manly 86%, Dragons 87%, Panthers 90%, Eels 91%)

- Tackle Efficiency Last 6 Weeks: Gibbs 95.4% (125/131); Fulton 94% (247/264); Flanagan 94% (29/31); Farah 93.2% (207/222); Woods 92.2% (130/141); Payten 92% (68/74); Galloway 92% (142/155); Groat 90% (71/79); Heighington 89.4% (143/160); Ryan 89.4% (42/47); Brown 86% (36/42); Ellis 85% (137/162)

- Rob Lui: 100% tackle efficiency. First time in career (20/20 v Parramattas)

- Bryce Gibbs: Has only 3 missed tackles in past 2 months (13 misses for the season) and no missed tackles in past 5 games

- Robbie Farah: Has only missed 2 tackles in past 4 games

- Limit offloads: Over the 6 weeks, Wests Tigers are ranked 1 for least amount of ineffective tackles (11.7 p game)

- Young Guns: In their first season of NRL, props Aaron Woods and Matt Groat both average over 90% tackle efficiency Woods 20 Matches – 92.3% (441/478 - only 1 missed tackle per game)
Groat 6 Matches – 90.0% (72/80 – only 1 missed tackle per game)

- In the past 3 games, Wests Tigers have 9 players averaging over 100m per game: Galloway, Gibbs, Fulton, Utai, Lawrence, Heighington, Ryan, Moltzen, Ayshford.

- Fresh Defence: Despite a few bad weeks in the middle of the season, Wests Tigers have attempted and made the least amount of tackles in the comp this year: 7680 attempted (Avg 349 per game) 6600 tackles made (Avg 300 per game)

- Wests Tigers have made exactly 500 tackles from marker this year

 

[izotope]

Amazing seeing it in black and white for you.

Gw tigers!!!
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[TuiTui]

rob lui's stat is the most surprising for me.

 

[Snowy]

Good read, Farah's form is coming along nicely. Very impressed with our defence of late. Well done WTs!

 

[Spartan117]

rob lui's stat is the most surprising for me.

Who here remembers Thurston @ 21???

He wasn't in 1st grade regularly, wasn't a Noted defender at the time either.

The dogs let him go in favour of retaining Anasta…

ROb Lui is a more experianced player at the state of he's career.

He will be a gun in time.

 

[TuiTui]

rob lui's stat is the most surprising for me.

Who here remembers Thurston @ 21???

He wasn't in 1st grade regularly, wasn't a Noted defender at the time either.

The dogs let him go in favour of retaining Anasta…

ROb Lui is a more experienced player at the state of his career.

He will be a gun in time.

couldn't agree more..let's hope that stat is a sign his defence is on the mend.

 

[underdog]

rob lui's stat is the most surprising for me.

Who here remembers Thurston @ 21???

He wasn't in 1st grade regularly, wasn't a Noted defender at the time either.

The dogs let him go in favour of retaining Anasta…

ROb Lui is a more experianced player at the state of he's career.

He will be a gun in time.

Puts it into perspective when you put it like that…. Lui must be retained. He's deceptively fast and strong as well.

Thurston was crap back then, and Anasta had Try-hard written all over him back then as well.

Thurston became a gun, Anasta remained a douche.

 

[Rummo]

Ellis' low comparative percentage of effective tackles surprises me.

I'm guessing it must be fast centres getting around him and just out of his reach. When he has a good shot on someone he doesnt let go and normally wraps up the ball pretty well in the process.

 

[Yossarian]

Ellis' low comparative percentage of effective tackles surprises me.

I'm guessing it must be fast centres getting around him and just out of his reach. When he has a good shot on someone he doesnt let go and normally wraps up the ball pretty well in the process.

I'd think it has more to do with him rushing out of the line to put a big hit on players. It's to be expected he isn't going to nail all of them. Those ineffective tackles you don't mind so much, it's the ones that lead to linebreaks that are obviously more of an issue!

 

[Gary_Bakerloo]

The stats are impressive, but I find this a pointless exercise by our club. Why are we doing this? Would it not be better for the press to publish such information? If we were to publish such statistics, would it not be better to publish at end of season?

 

[Gary_Bakerloo]

The stats are impressive, but I find this a pointless exercise by our club. Why are we doing this? Would it not be better for the press to publish such information? If we were to publish such statistics, would it not be better to publish at end of season?

We are only running 6th. It is not like we are 1st and destroying the competition.

 

[Paris_Cobbs]

- Tackle Efficiency Last 6 Weeks: Gibbs 95.4% (125/131);
- Bryce Gibbs: Has only 3 missed tackles in past 2 months 13 misses for the season) and no missed tackles in past 5 games
- In the past 3 games, Wests Tigers have 9 players averaging over 100m per game: Galloway, _Gibbs_, Fulton, Utai, Lawrence, Heighington, Ryan, Moltzen, Ayshford.

I become increasingly disgruntled at management who decided to elbow Bryce out of the Tigers!

 

[mctiger]

Amazing seeing it in black and white for you.

Gw tigers!!!
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In the spirit of the merger shouldn't it be Black White and Orange…..... :wink: