NZ Cup Final Stats

The Air Wellington Cup Final was played in wet Wellington on Saturday when Canterbury won 7-6. We give some statistics from the match.

The match was played according to the experimental law variations that obtained in the Super 14 plus two others.

Sanctions

Sanctionary Cards

There was none – not even the sign of one.

Penalties conceded

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

Total number of penalties: 8

Wellington: 1
Canterbury: 7

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Wellington:
Discipline: 1 (Tialata – trip)

Canterbury:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Slade*, Hopgood, Flynn)
Off-side: 2 (Hopgood, Read)
Discipline: 2 (McCaw – man without ball; Keats* – man without ball)

Each side missed a penalty kick at goal.

Free Kicks conceded: 16

Wellington: 10 (6 tackles, 1 maul, 1 mark, 1 scrum)
Canterbury: 6 (5 tackles, 1 mark)

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.

Wellington:

Line-outs: 14 (5 lost)
Scrums: 16 (4 reset, 4 collapses, 2 lost)
Drop-outs: 1

Canterbury:

Line-outs: 11 (1 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 8 (5 reset, 3 collapses, 1 free kick)
Drop-outs: 1

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 84

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Wellington vs Canterbury: 1

Wellington: 0
Canterbury: 1

Tries/penalties scored

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

Wellington: 2/0
Canterbury: 1/0

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 1/2