Statistics: NZ vs Samoa
New Zealand played Samoa in New Plymouth and won 101-14. It was a much weakened Samoan team and the match was played under the experimental law variations that apply only to the Tri-Nations. It was match practice for the All Blacks in their preparation for the match with Australia in Brisbane on 13 September.
Sanctions
Sanctionary Cards
There was just one – for Samoa’s Notise Tauafao after nine infringements by his team-mates.
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
New Zealand vs Samoa
Total number of penalties: 16
New Zealand: 4
Samoa: 12
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
New Zealand:
Tackle/ruck: 1 (Thomson)
Offside: 2 (Williams, Thomson)
Discipline: 1 (Cowan – late shoulder charge)
Samoa:
Tackle/ruck: 2 (Stowers, Aoelua)
Off-side: 7 (Meafou 2, Mai 2, Tauafao, Levasa, Ropati)
Scrum: 2 (Tea, “Whole front row” )
Discipline: 1 (Tea – collapsing maul)
Samoa missed a penalty kick at goal.
Free Kicks conceded: 16
New Zealand: 6
Samoa: 7
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.
New Zealand vs Samoa
New Zealand:
Line-outs: 11 (2 lost, 2 skew, 3 quick)
Scrums: 11 (1 reset, 3 collapses, 2 penalties, 1 lost)
Drop-outs: 1
Samoa:
Line-outs: 6 (3 lost)
Scrums: 12 (3 reset, 1 lost)
Drop-outs: 1
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 75
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
New Zealand vs Samoa:
New Zealand: 15
Samoa: 2
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
New Zealand: 15/0
Samoa: 2/0
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 17/0
