Post by Jamie Crawford on Feb 27, 2018 12:26:45 GMT
Round 17, Sunday 4th March
If the Beast from the East allows this fixture to go ahead:
The Knights are on a roll with four consecutive wins, two of them away from home. Last time out away was at Nottingham’s Lady Bay on 28th January when the Knights came home 6-27 winners. Five weeks later we travel to The Mennaye in Penzance to play the Cornish Pirates. The Knights have had a weekend off from playing action which is perhaps fortunate after the sudden and unfortunate passing of their teammate Ian Williams.
The Pirates beat Carnegie last Sunday 22-12; that leaves us on equal points but below Carnegie on number of wins on Teletext or one point below them according to the RFU and our website. Either way we are below Carnegie; the team we will play on Sunday (weather permitting) beat Carnegie in Cornwall so their confidence will be very high for their second consecutive home game. Both teams are in form but the Pirates have just beaten the third placed team in the Championship, so arguably their confidence is higher plus the Knights have had their World shocked with the untimely death of their teammate; it’s not ‘the way of the World’ for a 27 year-old to meet his maker. Try to win this game for Ian boys.
The Pirates are seventh after winning six and losing ten of the sixteen games that they’ve played. The Knights are fourth after winning eight, drawing one and losing seven of theirs. There are three league places between us yet our points scored and conceded are remarkably similar. The Knights have scored 433 and conceded 413 points. The Pirates have scored and conceded 435 and 426 points. That leaves a net difference of just eleven points over sixteen games. Both teams have scored 14 bonus points.
Pirate Fly Half Will Cargill and Fly Half/Full Back Laurence May both appear in the Championship’s top ten point’s scorers. The Pirates are the only team to have two players in the top ten point’s scorers, Cargill has a strike rate at home of 86% and May’s is 93%, so again the Knights must keep their discipline as kickable penalties will probably score points. On 01/10/17 May became the equal-second highest penalty scorer in the Championship in one game when the Pirates lost 28-26 to Carnegie at Headingly. Carnegie scored four tries to the Pirate’s two yet only won by two points because they gave away four kickable penalties. Carnegie didn’t score a penalty.
Wing Kyle Moyle is their leading try-scorer, Moyle has scored nine tries in fifteen games, two more than leading Knight try-scorer Ben Hunter and three more than Tom James, both over an extra game.
In total the Pirates have scored nine fewer tries than the Knights and conceded ten more. Previously this season only three more tries have been scored by Backs than Forwards; predominantly by the Wingers then the Back Row. The Pirate Back Row are the Championship third highest try-scorers of that position. Their Front Row have only scored a couple fewer than the Knights’ Front Row.
Over 60% of tries conceded by the Pirates have been scored by Backs, this indicates a stronger set of Forwards than Backs defensively. The relative parity in points scored compared to the 45 fewer points scored by tries highlights the Pirate’s (Cargill & May) success in scoring penalties.
The other fixture that could have a consequence to our league position taking place this weekend is:
Saturday 3rd March
Bedford Blues (5th, 2 points below) welcome Carnegie (3rd, one point above?) to the slope at Goldington Road
COYK
DONNY, DONNY, DONNY…
If the Beast from the East allows this fixture to go ahead:
The Knights are on a roll with four consecutive wins, two of them away from home. Last time out away was at Nottingham’s Lady Bay on 28th January when the Knights came home 6-27 winners. Five weeks later we travel to The Mennaye in Penzance to play the Cornish Pirates. The Knights have had a weekend off from playing action which is perhaps fortunate after the sudden and unfortunate passing of their teammate Ian Williams.
The Pirates beat Carnegie last Sunday 22-12; that leaves us on equal points but below Carnegie on number of wins on Teletext or one point below them according to the RFU and our website. Either way we are below Carnegie; the team we will play on Sunday (weather permitting) beat Carnegie in Cornwall so their confidence will be very high for their second consecutive home game. Both teams are in form but the Pirates have just beaten the third placed team in the Championship, so arguably their confidence is higher plus the Knights have had their World shocked with the untimely death of their teammate; it’s not ‘the way of the World’ for a 27 year-old to meet his maker. Try to win this game for Ian boys.
The Pirates are seventh after winning six and losing ten of the sixteen games that they’ve played. The Knights are fourth after winning eight, drawing one and losing seven of theirs. There are three league places between us yet our points scored and conceded are remarkably similar. The Knights have scored 433 and conceded 413 points. The Pirates have scored and conceded 435 and 426 points. That leaves a net difference of just eleven points over sixteen games. Both teams have scored 14 bonus points.
Pirate Fly Half Will Cargill and Fly Half/Full Back Laurence May both appear in the Championship’s top ten point’s scorers. The Pirates are the only team to have two players in the top ten point’s scorers, Cargill has a strike rate at home of 86% and May’s is 93%, so again the Knights must keep their discipline as kickable penalties will probably score points. On 01/10/17 May became the equal-second highest penalty scorer in the Championship in one game when the Pirates lost 28-26 to Carnegie at Headingly. Carnegie scored four tries to the Pirate’s two yet only won by two points because they gave away four kickable penalties. Carnegie didn’t score a penalty.
Wing Kyle Moyle is their leading try-scorer, Moyle has scored nine tries in fifteen games, two more than leading Knight try-scorer Ben Hunter and three more than Tom James, both over an extra game.
In total the Pirates have scored nine fewer tries than the Knights and conceded ten more. Previously this season only three more tries have been scored by Backs than Forwards; predominantly by the Wingers then the Back Row. The Pirate Back Row are the Championship third highest try-scorers of that position. Their Front Row have only scored a couple fewer than the Knights’ Front Row.
Over 60% of tries conceded by the Pirates have been scored by Backs, this indicates a stronger set of Forwards than Backs defensively. The relative parity in points scored compared to the 45 fewer points scored by tries highlights the Pirate’s (Cargill & May) success in scoring penalties.
The other fixture that could have a consequence to our league position taking place this weekend is:
Saturday 3rd March
Bedford Blues (5th, 2 points below) welcome Carnegie (3rd, one point above?) to the slope at Goldington Road
COYK
DONNY, DONNY, DONNY…
