Just shows that Cummins' strike rate wasn't all that shabby, even though he was much maligned. His best years were with Brad Godden at centre but even so he did pretty well over a long period. In a way it's a pity he didn't stay on as a squad player as he could well have hit 200 tries for Leeds.

Just to complete Cummins' Leeds try scoring record as obviously he is the only player in the top 5 that also pre-dated SL.



1993/4 to 1995/6 - 52 (87 Appearances)



His Leeds total therefore stands at 188 (355 Appearances)



A quick compilation of Leeds' all time top 10 Try List (cobbled together so subject to minor alteration)



Eric Harris - 391

John Atkinson - 340

Alan Smith - 283

Drew Turnbull - 228

Les Dyl - 193

Francis Cummins - 188

Stan Smith - 187

Syd Hynes - 158

Garry Schofield - 147

Lewis Jones - 144

I seem to remember something on the attendance being raised last year. IIRC they "guesstimated" the amount of people in the Millenium Stadium for each match and used that when calculating the average, despite only releasing one overall attendance figure for each day of the event. Amazingly, doing it that way allowed them to break the 10k average for the first time.

All a bit convenient, almost RU like accounting there.



I'm a bit of a simpleton. I took the published daily attendance figure reported and divided by three.



Interestingly after the first 12 rounds (72 games) this season the average SL attendance is 'genuinely' above 10,000.

Don't disagree with any of that, apart from the bit about you being a simpleton obviously





I know that a respected RL writer, who was the stats guru for the RFL also holds the same view on the attendances, but that's what they decided to go with. I can sort of understand why they did it, the number of people in the stadium did increase as the day went on, but it just doesn't sit right. If they're going to guess the figures, then why not just find out how many people had gone through the turnstiles by kick-off in each game?

[url=http://www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=10177The average attendance at the end of the 27-round regular season was 10,264, with an aggregate attendance total of 1,682,800 supporters passing through the turnstiles.[/url



1,682,800 divided by 27 rounds (162 matches) gives an average of 10,387.



FWIW The (unadjusted) totals I had after 27 rounds were: 1,595,407 (Average 9,84icon_cool.gif



Ah well, up the revolution.

Back to Leeds:



Rob Burrow has been successful with his last 22 place kicks (for Leeds) in a sequence stretching back to 7th July 2006.



Likewise Kevin Sinfield with his last 10 shots stretching all the way back to 18th April 2008.

Very interesting stats for McGuire 133 in 167 is very good going... all you Danny cynics out there!



He could easily muscle his way above Mr G Schofield before the end of the season and well into the Leeds top ten of all time!



TVOC, what is the no. of apperances for Schoey?

Garry Schofield: Pl 243+7..... Tries 147.....Goals 65..... Drop Goals 30.....Points 748

Thanks TVOC



Just what I thought... so Danny critics???

Not only has McGuire been an extremely good try scorer, but he's always created alot more than the Leeds fans give him credit for as well IMO. Has been one of our best players ever since he came into the side.



tvoc, what is your non-statistical opinion of McGuire?

FWIW I think the Burrow-McGuire halfback partnership will end up going down as one of the best - if not the best - in the club's history. Both will end up with a shedload of tries, not to mention winning at least 2 GFs (I know Burrow started 04 from the bench but he was there).