Post by Jamie Crawford on Mar 26, 2019 15:43:50 GMT
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Round 19, Castle Park Sat 30th Mar 2019 (corrected!) - 02:30pm
Saturday’s game is a battle between ninth and tenth; both teams have the same number of league points. Each team has won seven and lost eleven of their eighteen games played. The Knights are above the Scottish exiles by a point’s scored/conceded difference of 80 (-34 v -114). Both teams have scored eight bonus points but five of Scottish’s are try bonus points compared to four of the Knights’.
These points are comprised of the Knights scoring 454 points to Scottish’s 382 and the Knights conceding 488 points to their 496. Although the Knights have scored a few more tries than Scottish, ours haven’t resulted in as many bonus points.
Ollie Steadman inferred on our website that the Knights can only concentrate on their own performance and not worry about anybody else. The Knights have four winnable games left and they must focus on winning them.
Only one of these four games is away, against Carnegie on 14th April. (London Scottish (H), Carnegie (A), Coventry (H) and Cornish Pirates (H)).
Ollie stated in the Yorkshire Post, “We struggled in the second, but the first half was really encouraging and we will take the positives from that.”
Last time out Scottish hosted Carnegie and were soundly beaten 20 – 42. It was a 9-try thriller in which Scottish scored three tries to Carnegie’s six. Scottish Fly Half Rory Jennings only managed to convert one of the tries. Prior to that fixture, Jennings was the sixth highest points-scorer in the Championship. Wing Rob Stevenson and Wing Charlie Ingall were the joint sixth highest try-scorers after scoring nine tries apiece. Scottish tries had been predominantly scored by backs (75%), especially by Wingers (over 40% of all tries scored). In fact the Scottish forwards had scored the fewest tries by forwards in the Championship yet only the Bedford Blues Wingers had scored more tries than Scottish Wingers.
On the flip side many tries had been conceded by the Scottish, the most in the Championship after last Saturday. These had been conceded in a roughly 60:40 split Forwards:Backs. Their Wings had conceded the most tries in the Championship and the Front Row had scored the equal highest number against the Scottish together level with Carnegie. Essentially the majority of try-scoring and –conceding has been by Wingers; both by London Scottish and their opponents.
Other fixtures that could impact our ninth place this weekend are:
Carnegie (7th, +4) welcome Coventry (8th, +3) to Emerald Headingly Stadium
London Scottish (10th, equal) play us @ Castle Park.
Richmond and Hartpury College are nine and eleven points and below respectively.
At least it’s not St Andrew’s Day when we play London Scottish unlike when it was St. Patrick’s Day when we played London Irish.
COYK
DONNY, DONNY, DONNY…
Round 19, Castle Park Sat 30th Mar 2019 (corrected!) - 02:30pm
Saturday’s game is a battle between ninth and tenth; both teams have the same number of league points. Each team has won seven and lost eleven of their eighteen games played. The Knights are above the Scottish exiles by a point’s scored/conceded difference of 80 (-34 v -114). Both teams have scored eight bonus points but five of Scottish’s are try bonus points compared to four of the Knights’.
These points are comprised of the Knights scoring 454 points to Scottish’s 382 and the Knights conceding 488 points to their 496. Although the Knights have scored a few more tries than Scottish, ours haven’t resulted in as many bonus points.
Ollie Steadman inferred on our website that the Knights can only concentrate on their own performance and not worry about anybody else. The Knights have four winnable games left and they must focus on winning them.
Only one of these four games is away, against Carnegie on 14th April. (London Scottish (H), Carnegie (A), Coventry (H) and Cornish Pirates (H)).
Ollie stated in the Yorkshire Post, “We struggled in the second, but the first half was really encouraging and we will take the positives from that.”
Last time out Scottish hosted Carnegie and were soundly beaten 20 – 42. It was a 9-try thriller in which Scottish scored three tries to Carnegie’s six. Scottish Fly Half Rory Jennings only managed to convert one of the tries. Prior to that fixture, Jennings was the sixth highest points-scorer in the Championship. Wing Rob Stevenson and Wing Charlie Ingall were the joint sixth highest try-scorers after scoring nine tries apiece. Scottish tries had been predominantly scored by backs (75%), especially by Wingers (over 40% of all tries scored). In fact the Scottish forwards had scored the fewest tries by forwards in the Championship yet only the Bedford Blues Wingers had scored more tries than Scottish Wingers.
On the flip side many tries had been conceded by the Scottish, the most in the Championship after last Saturday. These had been conceded in a roughly 60:40 split Forwards:Backs. Their Wings had conceded the most tries in the Championship and the Front Row had scored the equal highest number against the Scottish together level with Carnegie. Essentially the majority of try-scoring and –conceding has been by Wingers; both by London Scottish and their opponents.
Other fixtures that could impact our ninth place this weekend are:
Carnegie (7th, +4) welcome Coventry (8th, +3) to Emerald Headingly Stadium
London Scottish (10th, equal) play us @ Castle Park.
Richmond and Hartpury College are nine and eleven points and below respectively.
At least it’s not St Andrew’s Day when we play London Scottish unlike when it was St. Patrick’s Day when we played London Irish.
COYK
DONNY, DONNY, DONNY…
