tackles misses carries metres




lunt 23 0 14 52
cudjoe 28 1 8 35
ferres 23 3 19 196
kopczak 11 1 4 24
wardle 20 0 5 33
crabtree 17 0 21 147
mcgillivary 6 0 13 153
patrick 13 0 5 28
fielden 15 0 8 45
robinson 26 4 15 56
grix 5 1 14 77
chan 38 1 16 106
faiumu 24 1 10 61
brough 14 0 15 44
cording 20 4 6 40
fairbank 16 0 1 4
murphy 3 0 14 186

Look at how many tackles our centres made! I'm surprised we missed as many as 16 tackles tbh.
Was interesting to see the game stats on SL extra time- our completion rate and possession was pants-and looking at the rest without seeing the score you'd have called a fairly comfortable wigan win which just goes to show clarky is wasting his time!

The stats from the two second rowers and two wingers are top quality. Crabtree also put in another great effort.
Our centres are very good in defence and Cudjoe has to be the most improved defencive player in super league from where he was a couple of years ago.

chan top tackler



ferres top metre maker




these two really are on top form at the moment in the 2nd row for us, long may it continue.

cording and robisnon 4 missed tackles each.

16 tackles missed but 11 missed by the same three palyers. the other 14 missed either 0 or 1 which is a good effort.
Cording missed most of his towards the end of his stint when he should have come off earlier, and Robbo was targetted all game.It is much harder for him then it was at hooker when he could get the tackle in before the runner had picked up pace. Now he is out wide and the runners are coming at him full pelt and with his size he is bound to miss a few, but he had Cudjoe next to him in the defencive line to help him out.

robbo is always targeted like you say but they often come up short as hes very good for his size at tackling..much better than drew and grix who have been targeted in the past.

cording should of come off i agree as he dropped of a few times later on

cudjoe solid as they come in defence

Murphys metres are impressive, i dont remember him being put free like Jerry or Ferres but averaged over 13m per carry!!

Murphy ran the ball back from the kick a few times and made good metres then.
Don't forget 90 of ferres metres came after the hooter! He really has had a great start to his first full season with us.

massive metres from murphy, would of been top until the last min with ferres!

deserves to keep his place.

If Murphy only made 3 tackles all game then i am a chinaman!!!!!

He didn't make many tackles. He saved a try with a deliberate knock on and diffused a couple of kicks but he didn't actually have to make many tackles

No cause the centres dealt with the threat before it got out wide!

Chan's figures are amazing, a real tackling machine and great yards

needed someone to step forward and do the tackling with lawrence out

Thought Murphy was our best back on Saturday, i was 100% confident in everything he did and IMO deserves to keep his place, but maybe he was drafted in by Baloo for this game as he has something over George for that type of game, for Wakey Luke might be preferred for something he does better but its great to have these options !...

Chan gets better every game for me he's a machine !!

I'd do anything for these two at Saints

I stated on another post, Chan massive improvement all round this year and probably best player for us so far.

think chan has been a top player ever since he joined us really. shone last year too for me

I'd agree with this. Chan was great last year too

+another 1

Chan was my MoM last Saturday.

I was undecided about Chan on Saturday. He ran the ball in loads of times but didn't seem to cause them any problems.

He runs sio hard with the ball that he often draws two defenders creating space for his centre and winger. Is playing like Manu did at Hull.

Mine too. Can't for the life of me think why Grix got MOM, even got 3 pts in LE Goldthorpe thingy. I sometimes wonder if I'm watching a different game. he was good but there was another 3-4 I put ahead. Cudjoe better than last week, still needs a bit more confidence though, felt sure he could have gone over in the second half rather than try and pass to the wing. That was a cracking centres pass he did mind, for Jerrys try, fast hands or what. Top defence from Murphy, stopped at least 2 if not three trys by shooting out the line.

Watch Sky highlights, we had 68% completion as opposed to Wigans 83%!!!! Just shows how good the defence was.

completion rate awful...put us under way too much pressure, wont get away with it all the time.

alot of people around me at the game and me included couldnt understand why grix got MOM on saturday..maybe the sponsors sponsor him!