Statistics: Tri-Nations, Round Three

Australia played South Africa in Brisbane and won 30-13 in a match of speed and few stoppages. We give some statistics from the match.

Sanctions

Sanctionary cards

There were three yellow cards this week – for Jaque Fourie (South Africa) and Quade Cooper (Australia) for dangerous (tip) tackles and for BJ Botha (South Africa) for a tackle infringement.

David Pocock (Australia) is fortunate not to have received a yellow card.

Recipients 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

Cited and suspended

Both Jaque Fourie and Quade Cooper were cited and suspended – Fourie for four weeks, Cooper for two.

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

Penalties conceded

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

Australia vs South Africa

Total number of penalties: 17

Australia: 7
South Africa: 10

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Australia:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 4 (Ma’afu*, Pocock 3)
Offside: 1 (Sharpe)
Scrum: 1 (Robinson)
Discipline: 1 (Cooper – dangerous tackle)

South Africa:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 5 (Habana*, Olivier, Kankowski*, Botha*, Burger)
Off-side: 3 (Burger*, Habana*, Pienaar*)
Discipline: 2 (Fourie – dangerous tackle; De Jongh – man without ball)

Australia side 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: 9/17 – 53%

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.

Australia:
Line-outs: 6
Scrums: 2 (2 resets, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 1

South Africa:
Line-outs: 11 (1 lost)
Scrums: 8 (4 resets, 7 collapses, 1 free kick, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 0

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 53

This remarkably low.

Scoring

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Australia: 2 (Mitchell, Genia)
South Africa: 2 (Fourie, Steenkamp)

Tries/penalties scored

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

Australia: 2/6
South Africa: 2/1

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 4/7

Some Totals in the 2010 Tri-Nations

Penalties conceded per country

Australia: 7
New Zealand: 12 + 9 = 21
South Africa: 5 + 9 + 10 = 24

Tries scored per country

Australia: 2
New Zealand: 4 + 4 = 8
South Africa: 0 + 2 + 2 = 4

Disciplinary sanctions per country

Australia: Y, C
New Zealand: 0
South Africa: 4 Y, 3 C

Y = yellow card
C = citing and suspension