Statistics: ANC Final

Canterbury yet won the Air New Zealand Cup Final. Wellington lost yet again. We give some statistics from the Final played in Christchurch.

Sanctions

Cards

Colin Slade of Canterbury was sin-binned for a tackle infringement.

Penalties conceded

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

Canterbury vs Wellington

Total number of penalties conceded: 20

Canterbury: 14
Wellington: 6

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Canterbury:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 9 (Ross, George Whitelock* 3, Smith, Brett & George Whitelock, Laulala, Slade, Paterson)
Off-side: 2 (Paterson, “All the forwards”)
Scrum: 2 (Borlase 2)
Discipline: 1 (Manu* – air tackle)

Wellington:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 1 (Perenise*)
Offside: 2 (Ramsay*, Fili)
Scrum: 2 (Undetermined* – hands, Schwalger)
Discipline: 1 (Ramsay – collapsing maul)

Wellington missed a penalty kick at goal.

Tackles/Penalties

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 10/20 – 50%

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.

Canterbury:
Line-outs: 11
Scrums: 6 (3 reset, 5 collapses, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1

Wellington:
Line-outs: 19 (4 lost, 1 quick, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 6 (4 resets, 3 collapses, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)
Drop-outs: 1

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 70

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Canterbury: 3 (Slade 2, Maitland)
Wellington: 2 (Leiua, Fuglistaller)

Tries/penalties scored:

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

Canterbury: 3/3
Wellington: 2/2

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 5/5