Statistics: Tri-Nations vii
What a difference a week and a few changes, includsing one of attitude, make. After being beaten by more than the score suggested in Perth Auistralia beat South Africa by more than the score suggested in Brisbane.
Again South Africa away from home conceded more penalties than opponents, the opposite to what happened at home. Is playing away from home a penalsiable offence?
Sanctions
Sanctionary Cards
There were no cards this week – for the second week in a row.
Recipients in Tri-Nations so far
JP Pietersen (South Africa) – high tackle
Isaac Ross (New Zealand) – offside at a tackle/ruck
Bakkies Botha (South Africa) – offside
Matt Giteau (Australia) – dangerous tackle
Richard Brown (Australia) – repeated infringement by the team
George Smith (Australia) – professional foul
Richard Brown (Australia) – dangerous tackle (tip tackle)
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
Australia vs South Africa
Total number of penalties: 18
Australia: 7
South Africa: 11
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
Australia:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 5 (O’Connor, Chisholm, Moore*, Alexander 2)
Scrum: 1 (Robinson)
Discipline: 1 (Horwill – air tackle)
South Africa:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 5 (Brussow* 3, Smith, Bismarck du Plessis)
Off-side: 3 (Botha* 2, Bismarck du Plessis)
Scrum: 2 (Smit, Mtawarira)
Discipline: 1 (Ndungane – air tackle)
Australia 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: 10/18 – 56%
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: 16 (3 lost, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 11 (3 resets, 3 collapses, 1 free kick, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 4 (1 scrum, 1 mark, 2 line-outs)
Drop-outs: 2
South Africa:
Line-outs: 13 (1 free kick)
Scrums: 14 (3 resets, 4 collapses, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 mark, 1 scrum)
Drop-outs: 4
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 89
Scoring
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
Australia: 2 (Ashley-Cooper, O’Connor)
South Africa: 0
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Australia: 2/2
South Africa: 0/1
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 2/3
Some 2009 totals
Results
New Zealand vs Australia, 22-16
South Africa vs New Zealand, 28-19
South Africa vs New Zealand, 31-19
South Africa vs Australia, 29-17
New Zealand vs Australia, 19-18
South Africa vs Australia, 32-25
Australia vs South Africa, 21-6
Tries scored
Australia: 1 + 2 + 0 + 3 + 2 = 8
New Zealand: 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 4
South Africa: 2 + 1 + 1 + 4 + 0 = 8
Conversions scored
Australia: 1 + 2 + 0 + 2 + 1 = 6
New Zealand: 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 4
South Africa: 0 + 1 + 0 + 3 + 0 = 4
Penalties conceded
Australia: 14 + 8 + 11 + 4 + 7 = 44
New Zealand: 10 + 11 + 14 + 12 = 47
South Africa: 4 + 7 + 5 + 15 + 11 = 42
Penalties scored
Australia: 3 + 0 + 6 + 2 + 2 = 13
New Zealand: 5 + 3 + 4 + 4 = 16
South Africa: 6 + 8 + 7 + 2 + 1 = 24
Drops scored
Australia: 0 + 1 + 0 + 0 + 1 = 2
New Zealand: 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 0
South Africa: 0 + 0 + 1 + 0 + 1 = 2
Free kicks conceded
Australia: 2 + 3 + 2 + 0 + 2 = 9
New Zealand: 3 + 2 + 0 + 4 = 9
South Africa: 1 + 5 + 1 + 4 + 4 = 15
Line-outs lost
Australia: 0 + 9 + 0 + 5 + 3 = 17
New Zealand: 4 + 3 + 4 + 1 = 12
South Africa: 1 + 1 + 0 + 2 + 0 = 4
Stoppages per match
New Zealand vs Australia i: 77
South Africa vs New Zealand i: 62
South Africa vs New Zealand ii: 73
South Africa vs Australia i: 89
Australia vs New Zealand ii: 76
Australia vs South Africa ii: 72
Australia vs South Africa iii: 89
