brearley84 wrote:
comparing sidlow with masons stats for last season!
mason was awful last season..and has been shipped out.
And replaced with a player on silly money who's not managed to get 80 minutes of game time in the last 2 years but is an old mate of the current Giant's head coach.
Though, I've been having a look at the stats and it seems that Kopczak isn't that hard to find a replacement for, it's Bryn Hargreaves' workload that we're going to miss next year. Looking at the stats Kopczak barely scrapes into the top 10 on a lot of important categories for a prop.
For example, Tackles:
Top tackler: Eliot Whitehead with 744
Top tackler at prop: Bryn Hargreaves with 690.
Kopczak is 9th on the over all table with only 353 tackles, only 8 more than Tom Burgess who's game time was not excessive last year.
Carries: Top this time is L'Estrange with 433
Top prop again that man Hargreaves with 389
Kopczak didn't even rate top 10 on this stat with only 200, again shamed by Tom Burgess
Metres: Top is Brett Kearney with 2446
Top prop: Who else? Bryn Hargreaves with 2312
Kopczak scrapes in again at 10th behind Karl Pryce with 1373
Tackle busts, surely a good stat for a barnstorming prop forward?
Not if you're Craig Kopczak it seems as he again fails to be a top ten player for Bradford with only 17.
So looking at all this, I have to wonder if we hadn't had our financial meltdown would Kopczak have been offered the same lucrative deals that were put to Whitehead and Bateman? I'm not sure he would have. He was clearly 3rd prop behind Hargreaves and Manny. His stats back that up. Could be that he asked about a better deal and was knocked back, hence his jumping ship.