Statistics: Super 14 Final
It was a great day in South African rugby when the Bulls played the Stormers in Soweto on Saturday – a day to rival the opening of the 1995 World Cup and the Final of the 995 World Cup, a day that showed Bulls and its rugby at its cheerful best.
The Bulls won a splendid match 25-17 – the third time they have won the Super 14, the second time in succession.
Sanctionary Cards
There was none.
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
Total number of penalties: 19
Bulls: 8
Stormers: 11
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
Bulls:
Tackle: 7 (Olivier, Rossouw*, Spies, Pretorius, Wannenburg 2, Maku)
Discipline: 1 (Steyn – high tackle)
Stormers:
Tackle: 5 (Jaque Fourie, Burger, Vermeulen*, Aplon, Pietersen)
Offside: 1 (Vermeulen)
Scrum: 3 (Blaauw, Kritzinger** 2)
Discipline: 2 (Blaauw* + 10; Bekker – jumping on tackle/ruck)
The Bulls and the Stormers each 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: 12/19 – 63%
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.
Bulls:
Line-outs: 11 (2 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 7 (6 resets, 5 collapses, 3 penalties)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 2
Stormers:
Line-outs: 9 (1 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 3
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 3
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 60
Tries: 3
Bulls: 1
Stormers: 2
