I agree blythe had a shocker he missed the tackle for a try and his head went down !!!

Also loving the stats Tickle, but Mathers offers so much more...he demonstrates behaviours that I hope all of the team will eventually adopt. His enthuasium is amazing (him and Penny must have about 10 red bulls before a match, as they just seem so pumped), love how he celebrates errors we have forced, big hits, the first one to slap a player on the back when they have messed up...that stuff is just priceless. It's the TS effect. Speaking to Leeds fan at last years millenium magic after a disappointing first half, I moaned about our lack of togetherness - players never celebrating tries or forced errors, going off as indivduals at half time. Leeds fan stated that Leeds were like that before TS was there.

In my eyes Mathers signing and Tony Smith appointment are the best things that have happen this year...oh and Wembley

Rant over..sorry

I've a feeling he'll be on the bench. TS never leaves him out if he's fit. Any chance Mickey Higham might make the final?

Dave T's stuff is good. He's really raised the bar over my perfunctory statistical analysis. I must do better

I bet though he gets vexed off like me when people selectively adopt / reject the validity of stats to suit their arguments.

That's the flaw with stats isn't it though, generally they can be used to prove almost anything, I just try and use them to support the odd argument rather than prove it outright.

I must admit, when you get a statement like 'x never breaks a tackle' or 'y misses more tackles than he makes' I always enjoy nipping over to the SL website. I must admit I really like that section of the website, and the only stat I would like to see on there would be a minutes stat (how many minutes each player has played). I believe they do this on the NRL website.

If they were able to display what percentage of each team's salary cap every player was on, that might make comparisons between given individuals a bit more realistic.