Currie Cup Final Stats

What a great Final in Durban on Saturday when the Sharks beat the Blue Bulls 14-9, two tries to nil! It was a match of high intensity.

Sanctions

Sanctionary Cards

There was none, though Bismarck du Plessis may well have been lucky not to have received one for stamping on the lower leg of Deon Stegmann and perhaps even luckier not to have been cited. There were also moments of childish petulance between the two hookers, Bismarck du Plessis and Derick Kuün, but nothing beyond silliness. At one stage Kuün had Du Plessis’s shorts down and Du Plessis had Kuün’s jersey over his head..

Penalties conceded

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

Total number of penalties: 18

Sharks: 9
Blue Bulls: 8

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Sharks:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (François Steyn, Sykes, Deysel, Pienaar*)
Offside: 1 (Bismarck du Plessis*)
Discipline: 4 (Jannie du Plessis: man without ball; Sykes: dissent; Bismarck du Plessis – stamping; Bismarck du Plessis – air tackle)

Blue Bulls:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Stegmann, Van Heerden 2, Morné Steyn)
Off-side: 2 (Habana, Matfield)
Discipline: 2 (Matfield – air tackle; Van Heerden – air tackle)

The Sharks missed three penalty kicks at goal, the Blue Bulls two.

Free Kicks conceded: 4

Sharks: 1 (mark)
Blue Bulls: 3 (1 mark, 1 + 10, 1 scrum)

Three free kicks became 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.

Sharks vs Blue Bulls

Sharks:
Line-outs: 15 (1 skew)
Scrums: 10 (2 reset, 2 collapses, 1 free kick, 1 wheel)
Drop-outs: 2

Blue Bulls:
Line-outs: 17 (2 skew)
Scrums: 5 (4 reset, 2 collapses, 1 wheel)
Drop-outs: 5

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 78

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Sharks vs Blue Bulls: 2

Sharks: 2
Blue Bulls: 0

Tries/penalties scored

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

Sharks: 2/0
Blue Bulls: 0/2

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

Kicks: 73

Sharks: 38
Blue Bulls: 35

Tackle/Ruck/Maul: 155

Stoppages for injuries: 3
Stoppages for replacements: 7
Stoppages for assistant referees’ reports: 1