Statistics: Tri-Nations ii

South Africa played New Zealand in Bloemfontein and won 28-19 in a Tri-Nations match. In contrast to some Graeme Henry, the All Black coach, was gracious in defeat, acknowledging that the Springboks had deserved their victory. We give some statistics in this match  of remarkably few stoppages.

Sanctions

Sanctionary Cards

There were not badly enough behaved players.

Penalties conceded

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

Total number of penalties: 18

South Africa: 7
New Zealand: 11

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

South Africa:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 6 (Brüssow 2, Fourie, De Vilifiers*, Bismarck du Plessis*, Olivier*)
Discipline: 1 (De Villiers – late obstruction)

New Zealand:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 5 (Ross, Muliaina, Kaino, Weepu*, Eaton*)
Off-side: 4 (Thorn*, Leonard, Nonu*, Conrad Smith*)
Discipline: 2 (So’oialo – high tackle; Kaino* – collapsing a maul)

South Africa missed three penalty kicks at goal, New Zealand one.

Tackles/Penalties

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 11/18 – 60%

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.

South Africa:
Line-outs: 8 (1 lost)
Scrums: 7
Free-kicks: 2 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 0

New Zealand:
Line-outs: 9 (3 lost)
Scrums: 10 (2 reset, 4 collapses, 2 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 5

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 62

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

South Africa: 2 (Pienaar, Fourie)
New Zealand: 1 (Conrad Smith)

Tries/penalties scored

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

South Africa: 2/6
New Zealand: 1/4

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 3/10