All pretty similar in terms of metres / run and relative PCM / run, except BPA, whose stats are skewed by that run down the right wing in the first half (sea gulling bastard!). Good shift especially by Philip and Wilson.
Cyclo, I reckon there is a fair bit of variation in players' involvements disclosed in those figures. What it all means though is anybody's guess.
On the number of runs, I'd say that Sio, BPA, TT and Hooper look to be slackers. However, the game plan might have been for the front rowers to concentrate on defense and that might explain their low numbers.
On metres gained, TT and Hooper look to be poor. But I understand a lot of the metres gained occur before reaching the defense, in which case it's not a very good measure imo. The measure of metres/run that you allude to suffers the same problem imo.
Post contact metres is probably the most telling measure, and on that score BPA, TT, Simmons and Hooper performed relatively badly.
On the face of it, both TT and Hooper looked to be below par on the attacking stats. But did they make up in their defensive efforts, I wonder? I think that TT was probably given an instruction to hit everything that moved, and Hooper generally plays wider which probably accounts for his poor looking stats. But probably also highlights why some here think he doesn't play as a forward but more as an extra back.
One thing I take away from the numbers is that Sio is playing better in general than a lot of posters are giving him credit for.
