I HAVE both a love and a healthy scepticism regarding statistics generally but the end of season Opta stats are always worth five minutes of your time.
Compiled over 22 Premiership games the margin for error and nonsense random stats is reduced and at the very least relevant trends can be viewed.
For example, three of the top five tacklers for the season are from Sale – Jono Ross (336), Ross Harrison (301) and Ben Curry (260). That tells me that apart from putting their bodies on the line Sale are spending much too much time defending!
Jamie Gibson (251) also features high on that lis...