Tackling stats from league games



- Sinfield = 313 - Avg 26 (only 9 less total tackles than main prop Peacock)

- Brough = 174 - Avg 13.4 (109 less total tackles than main prop Crabtree)



- Burrow = 100 - Avg 8.5

- Lunt = 392 - Avg 28



If Sinfield could have Brough's workload in defence then he could be doing more in attack. However we don't have a tackling hooker at 9 and Sinfield is having to make up for that (last year we tried 'hiding' all '3' of our halves, that's why we were so poor in defence last year compared to this year, this year we aren't trying to 'hide' Sinfield in defence)......not a problem though that he'd face at International level with Roby most likely to be there.

Of course, the other side of the argument against those stats is that maybe Huddersfield organise their defence better than Leeds when it comes to making sure their key man doesn't spend his games tackling...

I could understand this argument if in the last 20 Sinfield didn't play well, but for the whole 80 minutes he went missing. He hit the first man almost every time he passed the ball and i didn't see him put a decent kick in all day apart from a couple of bombs.





I just thought today showed that Sinfield is not a 6 and Brough is. I would choose Sinfield at 13.

Apart from the sin bin Brough played well last week. Especially considering he played behind a beaten pack and Robinson and Grix were awful meaning he was the only option in attack

I thought the playoffs last year showed that Sinfield was a 6 including a Harry Sunderland award.......but probably best we judge based on the 5th Round of the CC





He's fine at 6 if he can play the role properly in attack & defence......its not coincidence that the playoff games he was lauded in last year that Lunt played big minutes in them.



If Hudds had Burrow at 9 you'd see Brough struggle.

It seems having Burrow at 9 in attack trumps keeping Sinfield fresh for attack in the stand off.....dont quite get it either but that's not Sinfield's fault, neither does it mean he won't do better for England.

When he's on, Brough is the best half back we have available for selection. I'd rather have him and slightly inconsistent than a dull option like Wilkin.

Sinfield in for his kicking, only, very overrated in normal play, but Brough's not a good enough player or kicker.

Brough over Widdop? And then 2 players playing in positions they havn't played in for about 4 years.



Not for me thanks.

I thought this thread was going to be about who had the biggest forehead.

yet again, brough showed sinfield a masterclass in half back play

yet again sinfield was anonymous as the giants tore his team to shreds.

at the moment we have leeds' number and the so called best player in the world and his champion team have no answer to us.

Sinfield is a top man for Leeds and an excellent club captain but, he aint the best player in the world.

Although he is Leeds most important player.

Huddersfield were excellent yesterday, fully deserving the win.