Wigan Warriors • FIELD
jonh wrote:
Correct.
He also averaged less than 6 tries a year actually his try return per year is identical to Deacon’s.
Hardly the stats of a strike half and clearly Deacon wasn’t a strike half but clearly Phuzzy and I have different interpretations of a strike half.
Hang on a minute Jon! You're being disingenuous again. I never said he was a strike half. I said he had a running game, which he did. Also Deacon scored 85 tries in just shy of 400 games. Thurston scored Scored 109 in a similar amount. Even basic maths tells you that's around 25% more than Deacon and that's before we even get to the fact that he did it in a much, much tougher competition including State of Origin! The comparison should be with Andrew Johns who had a similar strike rate in the same comp, not Deacon who scored far fewer in an easier comp. In fact Jerome Luai who you put forward as a half with a running game has scored 30 tries in 140 games. A try ratio worse than Thurston's! If you're going to be that flexible with the truth I think the discussion has run it's course.
Moto: Thurston scored plenty from distance as well. More importantly, his dummy resulted in a lot of tries that other players scored too
He didn't have to put the ball over the whitewash himself every time to have a running game. And in any case, scoring short range tries is still a running threat. It certainly isn't organisational play or "picking a pass" as Jon would have you believe.Edit: I'm just rewatching the 1st SOO from this year and almost all the tries have come from a different player's running threat than the one who put it down over the whitewash.
Statistics: Posted by Phuzzy — Thu Jun 20, 2024 9:54 pm — Replies 57 — Views 8143