A few days ago I was looking through the stats section on the Love RL site and they show what the league table would look like based only on 1st half scores or only on 2nd half scores.

In the 1st half section Fax were 2nd, just 3pts behind Leigh and 5pts ahead of London in 3rd. Points scored (261) far exceeded points conceded (100).

In the 2nd half section Fax were down in 6th having been overtaken by London, Batley, Bradford and Fev. Points scored (232) is now lower than points conceded (249).

Seems a real contrast in form between 1st half and 2nd half performances. I don't know if that indicates a possible fitness issue or maybe a less effective bench compared to your starting pack? Points scored doesn't seem to change massively but 249 of the 349 points you have conceded this season (about 71%) have come in the 2nd half of games!

Certainly an interesting statistic!

Found the stats here by the way - www.loverugbyleague.com/stats/

A few days ago I was looking through the stats section on the Love RL site and they show what the league table would look like based only on 1st half scores or only on 2nd half scores.

In the 1st half section Fax were 2nd, just 3pts behind Leigh and 5pts ahead of London in 3rd. Points scored (261) far exceeded points conceded (100).

In the 2nd half section Fax were down in 6th having been overtaken by London, Batley, Bradford and Fev. Points scored (232) is now lower than points conceded (249).

Seems a real contrast in form between 1st half and 2nd half performances. I don't know if that indicates a possible fitness issue or maybe a less effective bench compared to your starting pack? Points scored doesn't seem to change massively but 249 of the 349 points you have conceded this season (about 71%) have come in the 2nd half of games!

Certainly an interesting statistic!

Found the stats here by the way - www.loverugbyleague.com/stats/

Interesting stats, I think we can put one more thing in there as well, maybe taking our foot off the gas when we think a game is won. That has certainly happened on more than 1 occasion this season with the Swinton home loss would be pointed at as costing us our top 4 spot if we miss out by a point. Again the mention of the bench is another interesting point as we usually start with 2 of the best forwards in the comp in Tangata and Calahane and it is noticeable a slight drop when they come off and a lift when they come back on. Finding players to play to those standards at this level is tough though especially in Tangata's case where you are probably talking about the best forward in the comp. It can be said our defence has improved over the past few weeks now and we are heading to where we thought we would be at the start of the season, having one of the best defences in the league. Our attack on the other hand has simply not scored as many points as we had of hoped.

Interesting stats, I think we can put one more thing in there as well, maybe taking our foot off the gas when we think a game is won. That has certainly happened on more than 1 occasion this season with the Swinton home loss would be pointed at as costing us our top 4 spot if we miss out by a point. Again the mention of the bench is another interesting point as we usually start with 2 of the best forwards in the comp in Tangata and Calahane and it is noticeable a slight drop when they come off and a lift when they come back on. Finding players to play to those standards at this level is tough though especially in Tangata's case where you are probably talking about the best forward in the comp. It can be said our defence has improved over the past few weeks now and we are heading to where we thought we would be at the start of the season, having one of the best defences in the league. Our attack on the other hand has simply not scored as many points as we had of hoped.