My summary of Vinnie is:

-contrary to popular opinion, Vinnie is NOT lazy. If the stats prove anything, they prove he is consistently hard working, week in week out;
-he does seem to be having "quieter" games recently though, in that he's not making big breaks or scoring decent tries;
-as well as all his good work, such as tackling and offloads, he is prone to glaring errors, such as running into touch and a bad missed tackle that lead to a try, both on Sunday.

Seems like a level headed and well thought out summary. I agree with what SEB says

Indeed. When I have been doing stats you will find that some players will make 30+ tackles in a game and will inevitably miss one or two. However you wil get a lazy git who makes one and misses none so gets a great 100% completion record.

Only a committed player will then surely miss tackles?

PS Vinnie Anderson; he is working but expectations of his ability are higher amongst the supporters.

Stats can be tailored to fit anything really, a player who makes 30 tackles but is in 2nd or 3rd man can look better than a player who makes 10 but they are all one on one to stop line breaks or stop trys.

Do you know how they record them at SL level? I always tend to give a count if the player has actually made an effective contribution to the tackle.

Well yes, but in reality very few in any players actually play like that.