This is probably something that's not surprising given our ladder position... but I wasn't aware of how badly, in comparison to other sides, we're going in the defensive stakes.
We keep lamenting our lack of goal kicking ability but looking at the ladder this morning one of the things that stands out is the number of points scored against us this year.
While our "Points for" are not radically different to the other teams around us at the bottom of the ladder our "Points against" are more than 100 points behind the next highest
Gold Coast 1930
Brisbane 1919
Carlton 2054
We're looking at our worst result since 2007 when we had a mind numbing 2911 points against.
That rather pathetic result was counter-balanced by the fact we did have some semblance of an attack back then and managed to score 2167 pts leaving us with a percentage of 74.44%
In fact our percentage at the moment is lower than at any time during the dark years.
If we maintain our current percentage, 65.2%, it will be the lowest since 1901
So while there's a bit of work to be done to fix up the attack, our defensive efforts across the ground also need to be addressed.
We keep lamenting our lack of goal kicking ability but looking at the ladder this morning one of the things that stands out is the number of points scored against us this year.
While our "Points for" are not radically different to the other teams around us at the bottom of the ladder our "Points against" are more than 100 points behind the next highest
Gold Coast 1930
Brisbane 1919
Carlton 2054
We're looking at our worst result since 2007 when we had a mind numbing 2911 points against.
That rather pathetic result was counter-balanced by the fact we did have some semblance of an attack back then and managed to score 2167 pts leaving us with a percentage of 74.44%
In fact our percentage at the moment is lower than at any time during the dark years.
If we maintain our current percentage, 65.2%, it will be the lowest since 1901
So while there's a bit of work to be done to fix up the attack, our defensive efforts across the ground also need to be addressed.