Love4Noa wrote: ↑July 8, 2018, 2:46 pm
Blake Austin should be re-signed to the club for one reason only.
He is a better player and a bigger threat than Aidan Sezer.
This club is going nowhere why that horrible excuse for a first grader plays for us.
Austin isn't amazing - but he's better than the other guy.
Stupidity at it's highest level. Furner and co need to go.
He isn't better than the other guy L4N.
Read this...
Who am I?
I have played 13 games in 2018.
I have scored 4 tries.
I have 7 try assist.
9 line breaks.
9 line break assists.
9 offloads.
35 tackle busts.
Ive run for 810m.
I've made 13 errors.
I have a 77% tackle efficiency rating.
I have missed 31 tackles.
I have 14 try causes (which means every 2nd miss is a try BTW) and finally 16 line break causes.
Now... 26pts were score on his edge vs the Broncos.
There are lots of games missing in the middle, but here is another post I’ve made this yr about our edge defense.
Where tries are scored against us:
Titans
Proctor = left
Elgey = right
Sami = right
Copley = right
Hurrell = middle
Knights
Guerra = left
Fitz = right
Moga = right
Watson = right
Mata'utai = left
Warriors
Hiku = right
Harris = left
Luke = middle
7 on our right edge. (Williams)
4 on our left edge. (Austin)
Of the right edge tries:
1 was Sami scoring in the corner for the Titans.
TBF the Knights went right because of a reshuffled centre and backrower though, as BJ got injured early.
2 of the right side tries were kicks too - Watto and Elgey.
Of the left edge tries:
3 of the 4 tries are backrowers being isolated on Austin who makes a bad read. Mata'utai is the 4th and he got a gimme by Austin racing up on Pearce.
Where did Warriors have their biggest yardage gains prior to both field goals?!? U guessed it, through Austins channel.
Now… I don’t want to sound like Im not showing both sides of the story, so here are Sezer's numbers this yr:
I have played 16 games in 2018.
I spent 4 of those at hooker.
I have scored 1 tries.
I have 9 try assist.
1 line breaks.
6 line break assists.
4 offloads.
10 tackle busts.
Ive run for 299m.
Ive 2951 kick meters.
Ive got 10 forced line dropouts.
I've made 19 errors.
I have a 83% tackle efficiency rating.
I have missed 38 tackles.
I have 7 try causes and finally 4 line break causes.
As a final thought, Id love to put a wins vs losses stat up in 2018 for both players. However, I cant. I can remember Sezer kicking a FG to win us one. So that cancels out Austin the other night. I have listed 4 games where Austin was a major contributor to losses. Those are just the ones I've already written about. Soooo... Id say the ledger isn't in Austin's favour. Given defence is half the game, and his attack isn't twice as good, he isn't worth it.