Pumipi: A Tackle Per Minute

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Author: dragons.com.au
Timestamp: Wed 1 Oct 2014, 12:00 PM

St George Illawarra hooker Shane Pumipi played eight games for the team this season in his inaugural campaign wearing the famous Red V jersey.

Pumipi made a total of 136 tackles this season, missing only five in a campaign where he played only 194 minutes.

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That was not too far off a tackle a minute.

Pumipi’s precision tackling lead him an average of just 0.6 missed tackles a game, the lowest of any Dragon this year.

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