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greeneyed wrote: ↑January 8, 2019, 4:00 pm Croker chasing rare record

Canberra Raiders skipper Jarrod Croker is 232 points away from becoming the first player under 30 to score 2000 points at the Telstra Premiership level. Croker has until September 2020 to break the overall record of youngest player to reach 2000 points, set by Jason Taylor at Parramatta in 2001. He's also seven tries away from becoming Canberra's all-time leading try-scorer.

A converted try in round one will see Canberra achieve the milestone of 20,000 points scored since entering the premiership in 1982.

Read more: https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/01/08/nrl ... r-in-2019/

Coastalraider wrote: ↑January 8, 2019, 4:27 pm

greeneyed wrote: ↑January 8, 2019, 4:00 pm Croker chasing rare record

Canberra Raiders skipper Jarrod Croker is 232 points away from becoming the first player under 30 to score 2000 points at the Telstra Premiership level. Croker has until September 2020 to break the overall record of youngest player to reach 2000 points, set by Jason Taylor at Parramatta in 2001. He's also seven tries away from becoming Canberra's all-time leading try-scorer.

A converted try in round one will see Canberra achieve the milestone of 20,000 points scored since entering the premiership in 1982.

Read more: https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/01/08/nrl ... r-in-2019/

And how many points conceded I wonder?

greeneyed wrote: ↑January 8, 2019, 4:29 pm

Coastalraider wrote: ↑January 8, 2019, 4:27 pm

greeneyed wrote: ↑January 8, 2019, 4:00 pm Croker chasing rare record

Canberra Raiders skipper Jarrod Croker is 232 points away from becoming the first player under 30 to score 2000 points at the Telstra Premiership level. Croker has until September 2020 to break the overall record of youngest player to reach 2000 points, set by Jason Taylor at Parramatta in 2001. He's also seven tries away from becoming Canberra's all-time leading try-scorer.

A converted try in round one will see Canberra achieve the milestone of 20,000 points scored since entering the premiership in 1982.

Read more: https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/01/08/nrl ... r-in-2019/

And how many points conceded I wonder?

The answer is in The Viking Vault:

viewtopic.php?f=24&t=21854

edwahu wrote: ↑January 8, 2019, 6:58 pm The answer is 18755.

Premiership games: Played 918, won 464, lost 444, drawn 10, 42 byes, 19,994 (3,491 tries, 2,996 goals, 95 field goals) points for, 18,755 (3,258 tries, 2,901 goals, 107 field goals) points against, 980 competition points, Winning percentage 50.5 per cent.

https://thegh.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=21854

edwahu wrote: ↑January 8, 2019, 6:58 pm The answer is 18755.

Premiership games: Played 918, won 464, lost 444, drawn 10, 42 byes, 19,994 (3,491 tries, 2,996 goals, 95 field goals) points for, 18,755 (3,258 tries, 2,901 goals, 107 field goals) points against, 980 competition points, Winning percentage 50.5 per cent.

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-PJ- wrote:

edwahu wrote: ↑January 8, 2019, 6:58 pm The answer is 18755.

Premiership games: Played 918, won 464, lost 444, drawn 10, 42 byes, 19,994 (3,491 tries, 2,996 goals, 95 field goals) points for, 18,755 (3,258 tries, 2,901 goals, 107 field goals) points against, 980 competition points, Winning percentage 50.5 per cent.

https://thegh.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=21854

The 95 field goals interested me..so I checked out where they've all come from.

25- Ricky Stuart
12- Clinton Schifcofske
10- Chris OSullivan
9- Laurie Daley
6- Todd Carney
4- Sam Williams, Brad Drew
3- Ron Giteau, Luke Williamson
2- Bert Funch, Mal Meninga, Anthony Milford
1- Mark McLinden, Andrew McFadden, Josh McCrone, Aidan Sezer, Paul Elliot, Phil Blake, Michael Monaghan, Marc Herbert, Josh Dugan, Alan Tongue, Terry Campese, Jason Smith,

If anyone can recall Tongueys FG that'll be great...

-PJ- wrote: ↑January 11, 2019, 7:56 pm

edwahu wrote: ↑January 8, 2019, 6:58 pm The answer is 18755.

Premiership games: Played 918, won 464, lost 444, drawn 10, 42 byes, 19,994 (3,491 tries, 2,996 goals, 95 field goals) points for, 18,755 (3,258 tries, 2,901 goals, 107 field goals) points against, 980 competition points, Winning percentage 50.5 per cent.

viewtopic.php?f=24&t=21854

The 95 field goals interested me..so I checked out where they've all come from.

25- Ricky Stuart
12- Clinton Schifcofske
10- Chris OSullivan
9- Laurie Daley
6- Todd Carney
4- Sam Williams, Brad Drew
3- Ron Giteau, Luke Williamson
2- Bert Funch, Mal Meninga, Anthony Milford
1- Mark McLinden, Andrew McFadden, Josh McCrone, Aidan Sezer, Paul Elliot, Phil Blake, Michael Monaghan, Marc Herbert, Josh Dugan, Alan Tongue, Terry Campese, Jason Smith,

If anyone can recall Tongueys FG that'll be great...

gergreg wrote:Didn't Tilse try and charge down a field goal and it bounced off his arms and went over. Maybe I'm getting muddled because when I played rugby one of my teammates was charging down a conversion and it ricocheted off his arms and went over - would have missed otherwise.

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zim wrote: ↑January 14, 2019, 12:07 pm How does that kick metres stat look when you run it up against completed sets?
Never see the point in the kick metres stat really. It's adversely affected by so many things.

greeneyed wrote: ↑January 12, 2019, 7:07 pm Trimmed down pack could make Canberra Raiders backs more dangerous

The Canberra Raiders' trimmed-down, more-mobile pack could have the flow-on effect of making their already lethal outside backs even more dangerous.

"What we've lost in punch we've gained in mobility. I'm excited to see how that plays out, the way we play," Michael Oldfield said. "More fast, upbeat footy, which will be exciting, especially for us backs. We like playing that off-the-cuff, flat-and-fast footy."

Read more: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/sport/ ... 50qtj.html

Goldcoast Raider wrote: ↑January 14, 2019, 5:23 pm But we scored the 2nd most amount of points in the competition

Goldcoast Raider wrote: ↑January 14, 2019, 8:02 pm My point was that they say our kicking game is crap but we score the second amount of points in the comp, the statistics are either over rated or if we improve our kicking game we will break the record of all records scoring points in a single season

greeneyed wrote: ↑January 14, 2019, 5:13 pm

zim wrote: ↑January 14, 2019, 12:07 pm How does that kick metres stat look when you run it up against completed sets?
Never see the point in the kick metres stat really. It's adversely affected by so many things.

The Raiders have improved their completions, they ranked fifth in 2018 on 77 per cent, the benchmark being 78 per cent.

However, the Raiders kick less than other teams. They ranked 16th in the NRL for average kicks per match (15.4) last year. The Tigers and Eels averaged 19 or more, and the Roosters and Broncos were close to 19. The Raiders ranked 14th for average kicking metres per match (380), the Sea Eagles and Cowboys kick more, but gain fewer kick metres.

The Raiders focus on weighted kicks... but they're the worst team in the league for forced line drop outs.

Do the Raiders kick less and get less kicking metres because they are getting more running metres than other teams? No. They ranked 15th for running metres per match (1326). Only the Knights averaged fewer running metres. The Rabbitohs were the benchmark with 1452 metres gained on average per match. The Raiders were last for kick return metres to boot.

The Raiders don't dominate possession in the opposition's 20. They ranked mid table. Not that this stat necessarily co-relates with success. The three teams with the least were the Broncos, Roosters and Warriors... the three with the most were the Cowboys, Panthers and Eels.

How do they score points? They don't offload more than others (ranked 11th), don't pass more than others, their focus is on dummy half running. Where the Raiders do have a relative strenght is their tackle breaks and line breaks primarily from the outside backs. They ranked second for both. They score points through the strike power of the backs.

It'd be good to have some more detailed stats... but, my conclusion from all that is that a better kicking game would help the Raiders... and it's worthy of some focus.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-pr ... isAvg=true

RedRaider wrote:

Goldcoast Raider wrote: ↑January 14, 2019, 5:23 pm But we scored the 2nd most amount of points in the competition

Exactly right Goldcoast Raider. We score a heap of tries. What we don't do is defend well after we have scored a try. All too often we either concede a try or the opposition are into our half all too easily. I'd love to see us defend the way the Chooks did in the Grand Final. They drove the Storm backwards with 'attacking defence' all through that match. Storm could not gain any attacking rythm. If we are to learn anything from how the Competition winner performed it was that stout, committed defence will get the opposition frustrated and greatly improves the possibility of a win. There was a stat some months ago on 'run meters conceded' and the Raiders were poor. Fixing the D is the biggest thing Sticky and co have to do in 2019.