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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

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