Post by Jamie Crawford on Jan 24, 2018 15:00:47 GMT
Sunday 28th January – 15.00
Finally we return to Championship action with an away game against Nottingham. The Green & Whites are fifth in the Championship, two points above the Knights in sixth courtesy of a game they won that we lost, both teams have drawn one game. Nottingham have recorded six wins from their 12 Championship games played and scored 318 points (26.5/game) in the process, the Knights have scored nine points fewer. The Green & Whites have conceded 322 points (26.8/game) and the Knights have conceded just one more point. Very similar scoring totals but Nottingham have scored 6 bonus points on their journey compared to the Knights’ ten. The Knights have only scored one more try than Nottingham which demonstrates the importance not only of bonus points but trying to score four tries or more in a game. The Knights have seven try bonus points to their name compared to Nottingham’s four.
The Green & White’s Tiff Eden is unbelievably (given their fifth place in the Championship) the second highest points-scorer in the Championship.
Eden has kicked the second-highest number of penalties which indicates that the team win many kickable penalties, so watch your discipline Knights. His strike rate at home is 84%, Eden has only missed four conversions and just one penalty kick at home this season.
Ben Brownlea is their highest try-scorer.
Try-scoring is nearly a 69:40 split between Backs and Forwards, with the Front Row and Half Backs sharing the hour of the leading try-scoring position with two more to their position than by Wingers.
Nottingham have previously been weakest in defence fairly evenly but the Centres appear to have relinquished more than average.
Although the Knights have scored one more try than the Green & Whites, they have conceded eight fewer.
Other games taking place that could impact our league position are:
Saturday
Cornish Pirates (7th, 1 point below) travel to Clifton Lane to play yet-to-win Rotherham Titans (12th)
Jersey (8th, 3 points below) welcome Richmond (9th, 3 points below) who are also on equal points
We’ll know the results of these games before we play Nottingham. We might start the game sixth, seventh or eighth in the Championship but a win AND a Carnegie loss could see us end the day fourth in the league.
Sunday
Carnegie (4th, 3 points above) host Hartpury College (11th)
COYK
DONNY, DONNY, DONNY…
