<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (dullonien @ Apr 30 2009, 09:37 PM)
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Monkeypigeon @ Apr 29 2009, 03:25 PM)
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I can see where you might get the idea that he doesn't have Bod's (when he was young) pace seeing as he doesn't look that fast for the second Ospreys try. but take into account that that was 65 minutes into the match from 60 metres out.[/b]
Don't see how that makes much difference, Phillips was in the same situation and he managed to catch him. Phillips was very unlucky that he ended up underneeth Earls over the touch line (10 times out of 10, that wouldn't have been a try, just a freak occurance).
That doesn't take anything away from Earls though, he's been impressive for Munster and pace isn't everything. He is a natural footballer, who is very comfortouble with the ball in his hands, he should develop into a top class player, nice timing!
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Wellllll....if you stop it at just 0:04...
At this point we'll say that Keith is 59 metres out from the line if he ran exactly parallel to the touch line all the way to the try line. (He doesn't...he runs slightly out towards touch... but the difference is only marginal). So K = 59
Lets say now that if you draw a line perpindicular to the hypothetical straight line that Keith is runnng, he would be 32 metres (perpindicular) from that line (aproximately). So we have a right angle triangle, with one line 32 metres and Mike is about 49 metres out from the try line so that's the second line, if you slide it in so that it's on the hypothetical Keith line.
So it's a simple aplication of Ptolemy to work out the length of the Hypothenous (i.e. 'M' the distance Mike will run to catch Keith before the line).
32squared + 49squared = Msquared
1024 + 2401 = Msquared
3425 = Msquared
58.5 = M
K > M
So really the diference in speed was minute and he did catch him slightly before the line but there were things I didn't take into consideration such as Keith not running a straight line.
But yeah. Basically they ran at nearly exactly the same speed. Fact of life. They're both as quick as lightening.