Stats - Tri-Nations, Week 3

More Tri-Nations drama, this time in Perth as the Wallabies opened the competition up wide. All the countries now have a win each.

Sanctions

Mercifully there was none this week. There was also no citing.

Cards

Victor Matfield (South Africa) – high tackle

Citing with suspension

Brad Thorn (Australia) – an act contrary to good sportsmanship, suspended for a week.
Bismarck du Plessis (South Africa) –  contact with the eyes or eye area

Penalties conceded

In this section we record the times a team was penalised.

* = points conceded

Australia vs South Africa

Total number of penalties: 9

Australia: 6
South Africa: 3

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

Australia:

Tackle: 3 (Ashley-Cooper, Baxter*, Palu)
Off-side: 1 (Palu*)
Discipline: 3 (Giteau – late tackle; Sharpe* – air tackle)

South Africa:

Off-side: 1 (Botha)
Scrum: 2 (CJ van der Linde, Steenkamp*)

South Africa missed a penalty kick at goal.

Free kicks conceded:

Australia: 6 (4 tackles, 2 scrums)
South Africa: 9 (9 tackles)

Of the free kicks, two were turned into scrums.

Getting possession – line-outs, scrums, free-kicks, drop-outs, turn-overs

In this section the figures represent the number of times you get to play with the ball.

Australia:

Line-outs: 9 (1 lost, 2 quick)
Scrums: 10 (7 reset, 8 collapses, 1 penalty)
Drop-outs: 4

South Africa:

Line-outs: 18 (2 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 7 (3 reset, 8 collapses, 2 free kicks)
Drop-outs: 2

The Tri-Nations is back in the Land of the Falling Scrum.

In the first Tri-Nations match, between New Zealand and South Africa, the scrums were 23, 2 resets, 3 collapses.
In the second Tri-Nations match, between New Zealand and South Africa, the scrums were 13, 1 resets, 3 collapses.
In the third Tri-Nations match, between Australia and South Africa,  the scrums were 23, 10 reset, 16 collapses.

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):

Australia vs South Africa: 82

Stoppages in the Tri-Nations matches:

New Zealand vs South Africa (i): 81
New Zealand vs South Africa (ii): 71
Australia vs South Africa (i): 82

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Australia vs South Africa: 2

Australia: 2
South Africa: 0

Tries/penalties scored

This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:

Australia: 2/1
South Africa: 0/3

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 2/4

In the first Test of the Tri-Nations the ratio was 2/5
In the second Test of the Tri-Nations the ratio was 3/11