Statistics: Tri-Nations, Round Eight
South Africa slumped from champs to chumps in the 2010 Tri-Nations. In 2009 they were imperious; this time they looked uninterested and ended up rock bottom with one win as Australia beat them 41-39 in Bloemfontein.
It would indeed be hard to blame the referee this time as the self-destruction was self-evident. We give some statistics from Bloemfontein, including ball-in-hand time.
Sanctions
Sanctionary Cards
There was a return to yellow fever this week with the sin-binning of Saia Faingaa (Australia) for a dangerous tackle. He was then cited and suspended for two weeks.
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
South Africa vs Australia
Total number of penalties: 18
South Africa: 7
Australia: 11
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
South Africa:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 6 (Habana*, Rossouw, Spies, Pietersen, Du Plessis, Van der Merwe*)
Offside: 1 (Van der Merwe)
Australia:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 7 (Beale*, Robinson*, Pocock* 3, McCalman*, Anthony Faingaa*)
Off-side: 1 (O’Connor)
Scrum: 1 ()
Discipline: 2 (Elsom – air tackle; Saia Faingaa* – tip tackle)
Neither side missed a penalty kick at goal. Neither side missed a conversion either.
Tackles/Penalties
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 13/18 – 72%
This is a high percentage of penalties at the tackle.
Getting possession – line-outs, scrums, free-kicks, drop-outs
In this section the figures represent the number of times you get to play with the ball.
South Africa:
Line-outs: 14 (1 lost, 1 reset, 1 quick)
Scrums: 7 (1 resets, 1 collapse)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 0
Australia:
Line-outs: 16 (1 reset, 5 quick)
Scrums: 7 (1 reset, 1 lost, 1 penalty 2 freekicks)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 0
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 68
Scoring
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
South Africa: 3 (Fourie, Steenkamp, De Villiers)
Australia: 5 (Beale, O’Connor, Elsom, Moore, Mitchell)
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
South Africa: 3/6
Australia: 5/2
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 8/8
Some Totals in the 2010 Tri-Nations
Penalties conceded per country
Australia: 7 + 11 + 6 + 6 + 11 = 41
New Zealand: 12 + 9 + 13 + 1 = 45
South Africa: 5 + 9 + 10 + 8 + 7 = 39
Tries scored per country
Australia: 2 + 3 + 1 + 4 + 5 = 15
New Zealand: 4 + 4 + 7 + 2 = 17
South Africa: 0 + 2 + 2 + 5 + 3 = 12
Tries per match
New Zealand vs South Africa: 4 + 0 = 4
New Zealand vs South Africa: 4 + 2 = 6
Australia vs South Africa: 2 + 2 = 4
Australia vs New Zealand: 3 + 7 = 10
New Zealand vs Australia: 2 + 1 = 3
South Africa vs New Zealand: 1 + 3 = 4
South Africa vs Australia: 5 + 4 = 9
South Africa vs Australia: 3 + 5 = 8
Stoppages per match
New Zealand vs South Africa: 63
New Zealand vs South Africa: 58
Australia vs South Africa: 53
Australia vs New Zealand: 59
New Zealand vs Australia: 69
South Africa vs New Zealand: 56
South Africa vs Australia: 72
South Africa vs Australia: 68
Ball-in-hand time (first half + second half = total)
New Zealand vs South Africa: 18 minutes 52 seconds + 20 minutes 15 seconds = 39 minutes 7 seconds
New Zealand vs South Africa: 17 minutes 34 seconds + 20 minutes 05 seconds = 37 minutes 39 seconds
Australia vs South Africa: 18 minutes 17 seconds + 19 minutes 20 seconds = 37 minutes 37 seconds
Australia vs New Zealand: 13 minutes 15 seconds + 19 minutes 50 seconds = 33 minutes 5 seconds
New Zealand vs Australia: 18 minutes 1 second + 20 minutes 10 seconds = 38 minutes 11 seconds
South Africa vs New Zealand: 16 minutes 42 seconds + 18 minutes 26 seconds = 35 minutes 8 seconds
South Africa vs Australia: 13 minutes 4 seconds + 16 minutes 53 seconds = 29 minutes 57 seconds
South Africa vs Australia: 16 minutes 4 seconds + 17 minutes 39 seconds = 33 minutes 43 seconds
Recipients of yellow cards in Tri-Nations so far
Bakkies Botha (South Africa) – tackle infringement
Danie Rossouw (South Africa) – kick
Jaque Fourie (South Africa – dangerous tackle
Quade Cooper (Australia) – dangerous tackle
BJ Botha (South Africa – tackle infringement
Own Franks (New Zealand) – armless tackle
Drew Mitchell (Australia) – armless, late tackle
Drew Mitchell (Australia) – preventing a quick throw-in by slapping the ball out of an opponent’s hand.
Saia Faingaa (Australia) for a dangerous tackle – suspended for two weeks
Cited and Suspended in Tri-Nations so far
Bakkies Botha (South Africa) for a headbutt – suspended for nine weeks
Jean de Villiers (South Africa) for a tip tackle – suspended for two weeks
Jaque Fourie (South Africa for a dangerous tackle – suspended for four weeks
Quade Cooper (Australia) for a dangerous tackle – suspended for two weeks
Saia Faingaa (Australia) for a dangerous tackle – suspended for two weeks
Disciplinary sanctions per country
Australia: 5Y, 2C
New Zealand: Y
South Africa: 4Y, 3C
Y = yellow card
C = citing and suspension
