Just been dabbling with the database and came up with this rather surprising stat from last season.
The top 5 RFC players committing fouls in League games last season were ...
5th place - Gareth McCleary with 32 - bit surprising
4th place - Chris Gunter with 33 - yeah a defender, although not one perhaps reknown for his tackling
3rd place - Joey van den Berg with 41 - absolutely no surprises there except perhaps he should have been higher
2nd place - Liam Moore with 48 - bit of a surprise as I thought he was pretty cultured, but not a patch on the top man ....
1st place - Yann Kermorgant with 63 fouls committed in 2016/17 league games.
That strikes me as being really weird - or is it a reflection on strikers not generally being used to tackling? Don't know, but though ot worth sharing. I suppose the correct stats would have been fouls per game or per mins on pitch. I'll look into that next.
Hope you are all keeping snug in this cold weather.
PS just checked on season 2017-18 to date - winner by a country mile is Joey van den Berg with 34 so far! Next best, (worst?), Liam Moore again on 20.