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<blockquote data-quote="Larksea" data-source="post: 412267" data-attributes="member: 43875">Yeah Leonard is maybe a bit more prone to knock on&#039;s but it may be because he&#039;s more involved in games I dont think his Error rate is &quot;bad&quot; also stats show Leonard has conceded a few less penalties which I think is critical. Leonard does get a bad rap about his defense at times but I think that&#039;s also a symptom of his workrate. Leonard often makes huge ground to get to tackles and some of his missed ones will be situations where someone else has missed a tackle and he&#039;s made a last gasped attempt to cover. perfect example was in the stormers game where he missed a tackle on Aplon which ended in a try. Leonard saw it was coming and the huge overlap they had and sprinted from a scrum on the other side of the field to attempt a tackle. Most 9&#039;s wouldn&#039;t have missed that one because they would never even get there to attempt it.But at least he gets there, some players dont bother to even attempt some tackles for fear if they miss they will be credited with a missed tackle. Brett is a perfect example of that, he will either hide on the short side out of harms way and I&#039;ve seen him let players run straight past him without even attempting a tackle. And I bet it&#039;s to save himself from being credited with missed tackles. I bet the extra 20+ tackles Lenonard makes in a season compared to others and a lot of his misses as well are tackles many halfbacks wouldn&#039;t even be in a position to attempt.If there is one weakness to leonards game compared to others it would be at times he does lack in a bit of creativity on attack. He can spot caps and space and he has the speed to exploit them but he does&#039;t use chip ckicks or try and sell a dummy to create space like Elis or Cowan do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Larksea, post: 412267, member: 43875"] Yeah Leonard is maybe a bit more prone to knock on's but it may be because he's more involved in games I dont think his Error rate is "bad" also stats show Leonard has conceded a few less penalties which I think is critical. Leonard does get a bad rap about his defense at times but I think that's also a symptom of his workrate. Leonard often makes huge ground to get to tackles and some of his missed ones will be situations where someone else has missed a tackle and he's made a last gasped attempt to cover. perfect example was in the stormers game where he missed a tackle on Aplon which ended in a try. Leonard saw it was coming and the huge overlap they had and sprinted from a scrum on the other side of the field to attempt a tackle. Most 9's wouldn't have missed that one because they would never even get there to attempt it. But at least he gets there, some players dont bother to even attempt some tackles for fear if they miss they will be credited with a missed tackle. Brett is a perfect example of that, he will either hide on the short side out of harms way and I've seen him let players run straight past him without even attempting a tackle. And I bet it's to save himself from being credited with missed tackles. I bet the extra 20+ tackles Lenonard makes in a season compared to others and a lot of his misses as well are tackles many halfbacks wouldn't even be in a position to attempt. If there is one weakness to leonards game compared to others it would be at times he does lack in a bit of creativity on attack. He can spot caps and space and he has the speed to exploit them but he does't use chip ckicks or try and sell a dummy to create space like Elis or Cowan do. [/QUOTE]

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