R6's RLWC2013 Rooster Reviews

[Rooster_6]

For those of you who have jobs, families or lives and thus wont be watching every game of the World Cup through the ridiculous hours of the morning like myself I thought I'd start a thread to provide you with some updates on how the Roosters boys are going in the competition.

DAY 1

Only 2 of the Boys were involved in the Day 1 games; Anthony Minichiello & Aiden Guerra who played in Italy's 32-16 win over Wales, although it was a lot closer than the score suggests it blew out at the end with 2 late tries.

Aiden Guerra - 8/10

He played in the centres and was my pick for Man of the match, scored two tries from close range barging over and set up another brilliantly by beating one defender cutting back inside and then offloading as he was falling over to his unmarked winger. All night he made his trademark tackle busting runs and was always a danger for the Italians, helped out his forwards quite a bit coming out of their own end too. Good game in all for Aiden. The only downside was he was at fault for Wales first try.

15 runs, 106m, 9 tackle busts, 2 linebreaks, 1 try assist, 1 linebreak assist & 2 tries

Anthony Minichiello - 6/10

Didn't put a foot wrong in defence, defused all his kicks and made his tackles when he was called upon. Didn't really have any bright moments in attack but was always pushing up in support. A quiet, but solid night for Mini.

9 runs, 79m, 0 errors, 2 tackles, 0 missed.

[Guest]

How about Mini's try assist!?

[roostersrule2]

How about Mini's try assist!?

Mini's to old for try assists remember.

[ROC181]

"Don't mention the try assist... I mentioned them once but think I got away with it..."

[Rooster_6]

How about Mini's try assist!?

He didn't have one. Simply throwing the last pass doesn't equate to a try assist. A try assist is where a player is involved in the creation of a try.

[roostersrule2]

He didn't have one. Simply throwing the last pass doesn't equate to a try assist. A try assist is where a player is involved in the creation of a try.

Arguably the stupidest thing ever said.

[ROC181]

Sorry R6 but in any sport, the last pass 'IS' an assist. There are no parameter that you have to fulfil other than being the last pass. And Mini was involved cause it wasn't just a pass, he went left, held the ball long enough to keep the defence guessing then passed it.

[Rooster_6]

Arguably the stupidest thing ever said.

Sorry R6 but in any sport, the last pass 'IS' an assist. There are no parameter that you have to fulfil other than being the last pass. And Mini was involved cause it wasn't just a pass, he went left, held the ball long enough to keep the defence guessing then passed it.

If you have an issue with it contact SportsData and ask for their full definition of a Try Assist; http://sportsdata.com.au/contact.htm

All the stats can be found here; http://live.nrlstats.com/matches/nrl/match25397.html

Personally I have no issue with it, a player throwing the last pass to another player who then proceeds to break the line on their own accord shouldn't be accredited with an assist. Assists are a good representation of tries created, not a whole representation but a good one and giving players assists just because they throw the last pass would undermine the whole point of the stat in the first place.

[roostersrule2]

If you have an issue with it contact SportsData and ask for their full definition of a Try Assist; http://sportsdata.com.au/contact.htm

All the stats can be found here; http://live.nrlstats.com/matches/nrl/match25397.html

Personally I have no issue with it, a player throwing the last pass to another player who then proceeds to break the line on their own accord shouldn't be accredited with an assist. Assists are a good representation of tries created, not a whole representation but a good one and giving players assists just because they throw the last pass would undermine the whole point of the stat in the first place.

If the pass is never thrown then no try is scored. Now because Mini did throw that pass he assisted in the try, because if he didn't I doubt they would have scored.

[Bansai Pipeline]

Guerra looks handy in the centres.

[Rooster_6]

If the pass is never thrown then no try is scored. Now because Mini did throw that pass he assisted in the try, because if he didn't I doubt they would have scored.

If that's what you define as a Try Asisst as then fair enough, I'll agree to disagree. Personally I think you need to play a more significant role in the try to get an assist than just throwing the last pass and I'm glad SportsData see it the same way because it'd dilute the stat and really make it somewhat meaningless.

And if throwing the last pass is all that's needed for a try assist then Mini actually had two last night. What I will say is Mini's distribution to Guerra was very good, he got him early ball on more than just a few occasions which allowed Guerra some time and space to do what he does best. I don't think he created the tries though, they were on the back of Guerra's dominance and nothing else but he was getting Guerra early ball which the Italian halves struggled to do all game.

[ROC181]

If you have an issue with it contact SportsData and ask for their full definition of a Try Assist; http://sportsdata.com.au/contact.htm

All the stats can be found here; http://live.nrlstats.com/matches/nrl/match25397.html

Personally I have no issue with it, a player throwing the last pass to another player who then proceeds to break the line on their own accord shouldn't be accredited with an assist. Assists are a good representation of tries created, not a whole representation but a good one and giving players assists just because they throw the last pass would undermine the whole point of the stat in the first place.

Well then tell it to these guys cause they don't know what they're doin...

http://www.rlwc2013.com/fixtures/player_stats

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Second columm with the '2' is the Try assist stats from the game

[Rooster_6]

Well then tell it to these guys cause they don't know what they're doin...

http://www.rlwc2013.com/fixtures/player_stats

That's not surprising, Opta are an English based soccer statistical collecting company. Just listening to the English commentators last night reminded me how clueless the poms really can be about the game.

Anyway like I said to roostersrule2 I'll agree to disagree, obviously we see it differently and nothing's going to change that.

[Guest]

If that's what you define as a Try Asisst as then fair enough, I'll agree to disagree. Personally I think you need to play a more significant role in the try to get an assist than just throwing the last pass and I'm glad SportsData see it the same way because it'd dilute the stat and really make it somewhat meaningless.

And if throwing the last pass is all that's needed for a try assist then Mini actually had two last night. What I will say is Mini's distribution to Guerra was very good, he got him early ball on more than just a few occasions which allowed Guerra some time and space to do what he does best. I don't think he created the tries though, they were on the back of Guerra's dominance and nothing else but he was getting Guerra early ball which the Italian halves struggled to do all game.

I digress, was Baloney grubber into the in goal in the gf a try assist??
It was Jennings who turned that into a try scoring oppurtunity not Maloney

[Yak]

That's not surprising, Opta are an English based soccer statistical collecting company. Just listening to the English commentators last night reminded me how clueless the poms really can be about the game.

Anyway like I said to roostersrule2 I'll agree to disagree, obviously we see it differently and nothing's going to change that.

How pathetic was it when the commentator didn't know what a forward pass was. "We'll have to agree to disagree" he said. I think the rest of the team agreed he was a retard.

How does that bloke get a job commentating rugby league?!!