The Tom Carter incident

[Inside Shoulder]

would have been his own nose

 

[Utility Back]

Moses, what have you done.

 

[Slim 293]

100 pages?

 

[Sully]

Moses show if Tom Carter is better than McCabe?

 

[Country Kid]

Last week Tapuai beat three players in his run that helped the Reds score the winning try. He evaded those defenders without a hand laid on him.

Does that count as three tackle busts?
Or three line breaks?

Or is that recorded as some other stat?

Seems a bit of a grey area - if anyone can shed light on this

 

[Schadenfreude]

Can we have the stats on:

• Who has the most Wallaby caps?
• Who has won the most Super Rugby Finals?
• Who has the least instances of poor sportmanship, stupid kick calls, terrible chase and absence of defence to lose a game you had in the bag in the space of 30 seconds?

 

[Gagger]

Add to this the shit deflection from Quade he would have taken.

With this, Quade wouldn't have mentally imploded, and we would have won the world cup.

NOT SELECTING TOM CARTER COST US THE WORLD CUP

also, we missed seeing this on the world stage:

 

[Inside Shoulder]

given recent performances having a wallaby cap may prove the same thing as the stats: its time to try something different

 

[Moses]

In 2011 Pat McCabe played 14 games (1060 minutes).
In 2011 Pat McCabe scored 3 tries, made 44 tackle busts.
In 2011 Pat McCabe made 69 tackles (1 every 15.4 minutes) and missed 5 tackles (7.2%)
In 2011 Pat McCabe was selected for the Wallabies.

I conclude that Pat McCabe makes more linebreaks that TC, probably because of his much lighter defensive workload.

 

[Godfrey]

The stats are really good to use because every tackle in rugby occurs in exactly the same context. Also, Carter's lightning pace allows him to get to any attacker - so please no one try to argue that stats don't tell the whole story.

 

[Moses]

I'm not arguing the stats tell the whole story, I'm questioning the huge chasm between popular opinion of Tom Carter and how the stats rate his performances.

 

[The_Brown_Hornet]

I feel a thread of doom approaching.

 

[spooony]

http://www.ruggastats.com/games.aspx?G=294

2 passes he made and he handled the ball 11 times

http://www.ruggastats.com/games.aspx?G=297
2 out of 11 again

Fai'inga
http://www.ruggastats.com/games.aspx?G=301

6 out of 11 playmaker once

http://www.ruggastats.com/games.aspx?G=299
4 out of 7 again playmaker once

mmm I wonder why the best outside center in the WC was chosen over Mr. Carter I wonder

 

[Schadenfreude]

The troll is strong.

 

[drewprint]

Can we dig up the stats on how many heads he rubs per game? Both team mates and opposition please.

 

[Inside Shoulder]

mmm I wonder why the best outside center in the WC was chosen over Mr. Carter I wonder

Carter is an inside centre

 

[waratahjesus]

Yeh I know and this after he got outplayed by the Wallabies next 12 just last week. Taps does everything Carter does and more and doesn't act like a batfisted Fucktard.

It's a mute point, Barnes is Australia's 10. Taps is 4th behind Mccabe and JOC (James O'Connor).

Carter is a better Super Rugby 12 than all of them though.

 

[Schadenfreude]

If only Rugby was an individual sport he'd be awesome.

 

[Schadenfreude]

.. because he's cheap and you can get some good players under the salary cap?

 

[Slim 293]

In 2011 Pat McCabe played 14 games (1060 minutes).
In 2011 Pat McCabe scored 3 tries, made 44 tackle busts.
In 2011 Pat McCabe made 69 tackles (1 every 15.4 minutes) and missed 5 tackles (7.2%)
In 2011 Pat McCabe was selected for the Wallabies.

I conclude that Pat McCabe makes more linebreaks that TC, probably because of his much lighter defensive workload.

Now let's compare their test stats...

Nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk...