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<blockquote data-quote="Larksea" data-source="post: 954776" data-attributes="member: 43875"><p>Cane's been getting a lot of turnovers this year, he's getting more per minute played than Savea and he's been getting them at critical times as well.</p><p>rugbypass for example has cane with 6 turnovers from 5 games Savea 10 from 16 games, Savea obviously played a lot more with Cane coming back late from his neck injury. Stats from other sites show a similar story with numbers being different depending on the criteria of what they class as a turnover. when super rugby ended I calculated using stats from a couple of different sites that Cane was getting turnovers at almost double the rate of Savea when calculating by per minute played. Savea is an amazing carrier but he almost always dies with the ball where Cane is more of a link carrier than Savea or squire and does a very good job a with it. of them all Cane is the best advantage line defender which IMO is the primary role of a 7</p><p></p><p>laumape scores tries but like Savea he often dies with the ball, his distribution game is lacking, in super Rugby ALB is getting more than double the try assists per minute played compared to laumape which came from leading the comp for midfield offloads by a lot. Alb has had an amazing season, the guy missed 1 tackle in the 4 tests he played this year. he excelled in every aspect of the game. Most midfielders average about 1 pass per run the better distributors more. Laumape is averaging closer to half a pass per run. Laumape as an individuel scores more tries but the stats suggest that a team ALB is in will score more tries. Alb is also making significantly more tackles per minute at a much higher accuracy(91%) compared to Laumape(82%). Fun stat - ALB beat more defenders than Laumape this super rugby season. That would prob surprise a few.</p><p></p><p>Crotty's stats are excellent all round. Crazy thing he's almost the opposite of Laumape in terms of he almost never scores tries, only one for the crusaders this year but its pretty well known that the crusaders outside backs have been running them in like crazy and its fair to say Crotty is a part of that equation.</p><p></p><p>Bit off topic but IMO the way Laumape plays and the skills he has he's almost better suited to playing on the wing. obviously without knowing his high ball skills his body type doesn't convert well to that area. Also speculation but Laumape though being build like a tank he is pretty small. I think against the bigger teams we are going to hit when the WC gets interesting his style may not be as effective as the likes of ALB/Goodhue. I look at a similar player in Tuilagi his power game does convert well into big games. i'd give Laumape an edge in speed but Tuilagi has a good 15-18KG on Laumape. Its harder to get that style to convert to the top end of test footy. And that ~10% he's missing from his defense is even more important.</p><p></p><p>I'm going to say it again though, I think the odds Laumape plays in this WC are still good. Look at all the series and tours from the last few years Laumape is hardly ever an initial pick but gets a shot after an injury.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Larksea, post: 954776, member: 43875"] Cane's been getting a lot of turnovers this year, he's getting more per minute played than Savea and he's been getting them at critical times as well. rugbypass for example has cane with 6 turnovers from 5 games Savea 10 from 16 games, Savea obviously played a lot more with Cane coming back late from his neck injury. Stats from other sites show a similar story with numbers being different depending on the criteria of what they class as a turnover. when super rugby ended I calculated using stats from a couple of different sites that Cane was getting turnovers at almost double the rate of Savea when calculating by per minute played. Savea is an amazing carrier but he almost always dies with the ball where Cane is more of a link carrier than Savea or squire and does a very good job a with it. of them all Cane is the best advantage line defender which IMO is the primary role of a 7 laumape scores tries but like Savea he often dies with the ball, his distribution game is lacking, in super Rugby ALB is getting more than double the try assists per minute played compared to laumape which came from leading the comp for midfield offloads by a lot. Alb has had an amazing season, the guy missed 1 tackle in the 4 tests he played this year. he excelled in every aspect of the game. Most midfielders average about 1 pass per run the better distributors more. Laumape is averaging closer to half a pass per run. Laumape as an individuel scores more tries but the stats suggest that a team ALB is in will score more tries. Alb is also making significantly more tackles per minute at a much higher accuracy(91%) compared to Laumape(82%). Fun stat - ALB beat more defenders than Laumape this super rugby season. That would prob surprise a few. Crotty's stats are excellent all round. Crazy thing he's almost the opposite of Laumape in terms of he almost never scores tries, only one for the crusaders this year but its pretty well known that the crusaders outside backs have been running them in like crazy and its fair to say Crotty is a part of that equation. Bit off topic but IMO the way Laumape plays and the skills he has he's almost better suited to playing on the wing. obviously without knowing his high ball skills his body type doesn't convert well to that area. Also speculation but Laumape though being build like a tank he is pretty small. I think against the bigger teams we are going to hit when the WC gets interesting his style may not be as effective as the likes of ALB/Goodhue. I look at a similar player in Tuilagi his power game does convert well into big games. i'd give Laumape an edge in speed but Tuilagi has a good 15-18KG on Laumape. Its harder to get that style to convert to the top end of test footy. And that ~10% he's missing from his defense is even more important. I'm going to say it again though, I think the odds Laumape plays in this WC are still good. Look at all the series and tours from the last few years Laumape is hardly ever an initial pick but gets a shot after an injury. [/QUOTE]
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