TVOC, is there any scope for contacting Opta to query their stats? If so, have you ever done so? Things like the aforementioned Kirke 40-20 and Webb sin bin (or lack of it) are beyond embarrassing, and they need to know what a mess their stats are!

Re completed sets, surely a try or an early kick must deem the set completed? I would have thought the only time a set would be incomplete is when it ended before the attacking team wanted it to??

Beat me to it!

I don't know if there is and I doubt I would go to much effort to do so even if there was to be perfectly honest. If they are the custodians of the official stats it's their responsibility. Needless to say my OPTA spreadsheet doesn't show Kirke's 40/20 (which belongs to Burrow incidentally) and does show the Webb sin-binning at Wakefield.



Is it a completed set if you kick from the scrum base on the first tackle?

Yes I guess it is even though it pushes the boundary of the term 'set'.

Similarly, if, in need for divine inspiration, you look up to the heavens and see Stevo wildly gesticulating at you, you suddenly think "Ah, I'll try the chip over the top, thanks Stevo!" (regardless of where the full back - and all the other defenders for that matter appear to be - they are inconsequential to our Lord Stevo naturally...) - the intention is obviously to try and retain possession, so if the opposition team catch the ball, technically it's an uncompleted set, however when you kick the ball you know there's a chance you may not get it back, hence choosing to risk ending the set, hence making it a completed set. Obviously.

My brain hurts......

That was my problem when trying to follow complete sets from Sky games.

Why can't we be Harlequins.