Re: Turner : Tue Jun 23, 2015 7:20 pm  

People are doing well to find reasons to bag him given his form.

Re: Turner : Tue Jun 23, 2015 8:34 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

People are doing well to find reasons to bag him given his form.

I don't see how stating he misses about 4/5 tackles a match is bagging him. I'm going off the stats and my own eyes. Everyone knows he's dodgy in defence.

He is playing well with the ball tho.

Re: Turner : Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:04 pm  

Any wonder he misses tackles when he has to keep one eye on the clown outside of him.

Re: Turner : Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:23 pm  

St pete wrote:

I don't see how stating he misses about 4/5 tackles a match is bagging him. I'm going off the stats and my own eyes. Everyone knows he's dodgy in defence.

He is playing well with the ball tho.

He doesn,t miss 4 to 5 tackles a match though its more like a 2.6 missed tackle average. 48 missed tackles over 18 games, and we could probably chalk off a couple of tackles with players either side of him mis reading defensive plays.

His stats show:

2 x 0 missed
2 x 1 missed
1 x 2 missed
10 x 3 missed
2 x 4 missed
1 x 6 missed

The Leeds game was the shocker for lots of our players Turner missed 6 accompanied by 2 others with Walmsley missing 9 tackles.


Turner is a "big player" for us, he is our best for try's scored, best for try assists and best for clean breaks.

Re: Turner : Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:38 pm  

Judder Man wrote:

Its very difficult to criticise him too much because he has had a pretty positive impact on all our games, much improved performances this season made lots of tackle busts and put in some big hits as well. As people have already said we are not sure if these misses led to try's scored in the set, I think Walsh made 6 tackles last week and missed 5 of those, but I don,t think anybody has brought this up at the moment.

I know those Walsh stats are wrong because I saw him with my own eyes make more than one successful tackle. His last tackle was a wonderful try saver in the second half when we were down to 12 men. He isn't the best tackler in the world but then halfbacks can be like that and I believe that's largely accepted. He does make tackles though and definitely more than one!

I have no problem with Turner. I think he's been a great player for us this season.