Try tsunami sends a mixed message

Peter Jackson looks at an increase in points scored but suggests the figures may be hiding a problem for the Premiership.

Over the last seven rounds of the Premiership, Bristol Bears posted numbers which might have been cut and pasted from Virat Kohli’s scorebook at the cricket World Cup: 101, 73, 57, 99, 40, 61, 81.
The figures show the aggregate points totals generated by the Bears in those seven fixtures, starting with routs at Ashton Gate over opponents within sight of reaching the Premiership final; Bath, dispatched 57-44 in late January, Northampton similarly so, 52-21 in the next mat...

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