2017 Brisbane Broncos Thread - we hate them for their freedom

FebruaryChamp wrote:James Roberts seems like a trouble.

He can't put together a good, solid 80 minute display but then will wow you with one piece of excellence that almost makes you forget the other 79 and a half minutes. Also, the way he entered the melees was just so unnecessary.

Dip wrote:They never say "Kahu/Feki needs to get involved more". Generally when those guys are quiet it's because they're forwards are getting beaten.

Dip wrote:
Ewan Aitken.

Pieman wrote:

or its because those guys are generally pretty well involved in the match, they dont expect feki to come in step someone/hit a hole and run the length. Its expected of someone like roberts.

roberts prob makes as many handling errors as those guys anyway (just a guess) because he is trying to score on every play, not work towards a try

For a long time, guys like hodges and gaz rarely got the ball in good space - so they had to go looking for it from dummy half.

Roberts does that a little, but not enough IMO

Dip wrote:

2016 Stats from NRL.com:
James Roberts - 25 Games
55 Dummy Half Runs - 18th in comp, 11 of whom are hookers and there are no other full-time centres above him (Nofo, Peachey and Hoppa Jr played a little centre but mainly other positions).
273 All Runs - Only full time centres with more are Leilua, Bird, Gagai, Aitken, Linnett
13 Errors - 110th most in the comp

in comparison to the guys that I used as an example
Jordan Kahu - 20 Games, 14 Dummy Half Runs, 209 All Runs, 11 Errors
Sosaia Feki - 24 Games, 16 Dummy Half Runs, 248 All Runs, 23 Errors

Personally, looking at those stats, if you said without naming names that a guy had the most dummy half runs of all centres in the comp, and the 6th most runs of all centres (where two of those in Gagai and Aitken played some matches at Fullback or Wing) I don't think you'd complain about his workrate.

ryno_ wrote:

Oh people can come up with statistics to prove anything. Forfty percent of all people know that.

Dip wrote:

2016 Stats from NRL.com:
James Roberts - 25 Games
55 Dummy Half Runs - 18th in comp, 11 of whom are hookers and there are no other full-time centres above him (Nofo, Peachey and Hoppa Jr played a little centre but mainly other positions).
273 All Runs - Only full time centres with more are Leilua, Bird, Gagai, Aitken, Linnett
13 Errors - 110th most in the comp

in comparison to the guys that I used as an example
Jordan Kahu - 20 Games, 14 Dummy Half Runs, 209 All Runs, 11 Errors
Sosaia Feki - 24 Games, 16 Dummy Half Runs, 248 All Runs, 23 Errors

Personally, looking at those stats, if you said without naming names that a guy had the most dummy half runs of all centres in the comp, and the 6th most runs of all centres (where two of those in Gagai and Aitken played some matches at Fullback or Wing) I don't think you'd complain about his workrate.

Pieman wrote:

For starters, you are comparing a centre to a full time winger and a guy who played most of the season on the wing outside of roberts...
Peachy played centre pretty much all year too.

Ok, so according to those stats - he looks like he has a decent work rate.

I also find it odd that a winger doesnt average even 1 dummy half run a game.

Dip wrote:

2016 Stats from NRL.com:
James Roberts - 25 Games
55 Dummy Half Runs - 18th in comp, 11 of whom are hookers and there are no other full-time centres above him (Nofo, Peachey and Hoppa Jr played a little centre but mainly other positions).
273 All Runs - Only full time centres with more are Leilua, Bird, Gagai, Aitken, Linnett
13 Errors - 110th most in the comp

in comparison to the guys that I used as an example
Jordan Kahu - 20 Games, 14 Dummy Half Runs, 209 All Runs, 11 Errors
Sosaia Feki - 24 Games, 16 Dummy Half Runs, 248 All Runs, 23 Errors

Personally, looking at those stats, if you said without naming names that a guy had the most dummy half runs of all centres in the comp, and the 6th most runs of all centres (where two of those in Gagai and Aitken played some matches at Fullback or Wing) I don't think you'd complain about his workrate.

No Worries wrote:

Thats a lot of effort to say fuck all. Do teams have the same structure, how big are their wingers. blah blah next

Mighty Fishes wrote:Roberts not introduced at season launch with all the other players

Mr Fernando wrote:

Chris Garry on Twitter said Roberts elected not to come because there would be alcohol around

Mr Fernando wrote:

Mighty Fishes wrote:Roberts not introduced at season launch with all the other players

Chris Garry on Twitter said Roberts elected not to come because there would be alcohol around