Note how the Top14 is different to the Prem - Leicester's 65.8 PO pre-Cheika would've put them in third lowest in the Top14 ahead of both Brive and Bayonne. Their current score of 100.8 would be 6th this season. 12) - ThreadSky

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samlstandsup.bsky.social • 55 days ago

Note how the Top14 is different to the Prem - Leicester's 65.8 PO pre-Cheika would've put them in third lowest in the Top14 ahead of both Brive and Bayonne. Their current score of 100.8 would be 6th this season.

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samlstandsup.bsky.social•55 days ago

In the Lancaster era, Racing92's PO has jumped to 95.4 - a 35% increase but their DU has risen to 0.2 - an 82% jump. They have gone from the second least defensively urgent side in the Top14 to the second most.

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samlstandsup.bsky.social•55 days ago

In those two years of Lancaster's reign, we see Racing92 leap into the position of being both possession heavy and defensively aggressive. That's hard to achieve because both require extremely high fitness levels. But you can see that generally the best teams live there.

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borderbadger.bsky.social•54 days ago

This is really interesting stuff, Sam.

It’s fascinating to see Edinburgh making similar numbers to Racing 92 and also perceived to be underperforming. One wonders what the “missing piece” is…

samlstandsup.bsky.social•54 days ago

Thanks BB! I'd say that because this judges how often they do something but not how well, they're probably doing a lot of purposeless attacking and being rewarded with pens not turnovers for jackals.

samlstandsup.bsky.social•54 days ago

Perpignan also in this quadrant who aren't doing very well in the Top14. Newcastle also relatively possession heavy but it's often aimless around halfway.

samlstandsup.bsky.social•55 days ago

So can we see the impact of a coach? It turns out we can and coaches can quite swiftly put their fingerprints on a new team as well!

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