Statistics: Tri-Nations, Week 8
South Africa played Australia in Johannesburg and won 53-8, a shock result in view of what had happened before – three successive defeats for South Africa and two successive wins over South Africa for Australia.
There was no discussion about the refereeing but then there was none of that difficult stuff of a penalty for some offences and a free kick for others that has caused upset in some matches.
Sanctions
There were no yellow cards or citings
Cards so far
Victor Matfield (South Africa) – high tackle
Brad Thorn (New Zealand) – high tackle
Citing with suspension so far
Brad Thorn (New Zealand) – an act contrary to good sportsmanship, suspended for a week.
Bismarck du Plessis (South Africa) – contact with the eyes or eye area, suspended for three weeks
CJ van der Linde (South Africa) – reckless, head-first entry into a tackle/ruck, suspended for four weeks.
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
* = points conceded
South Africa vs Australia
Total number of penalties: 5
South Africa: 3
Australia: 24
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
South Africa:
Off-side: 2 (James*, Bismarck du Plessis)
Scrum: 1 (Mtawarira)
Discipline: 1 (Undetermined – undetermined)
Australia:
Tackle: 2 (Cordingley*, Palu)
Neither side missed a penalty kick at goal.
Free kicks conceded:
South Africa: 7 (5 tackles, 1 scrum, 1 mark)
Australia: 12 (11 tackles, 1 mark)
Of the free kicks, two were turned into scrums.
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: 11 (3 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 7 (3 reset, 1 collapse)
Drop-outs: 1
Australia:
Line-outs: 17 (5 lost, 3 skew, 2 quick)
Scrums: 9 (4 reset, 4 collapses, 1 penalty, 1 free kick, 1 lost)
Drop-outs: 2
Again the scrumming in a match involving Australia was much improved.
In the first Tri-Nations match, between New Zealand and South Africa, the scrums were 23, 2 resets, 3 collapses.
In the second Tri-Nations match, between New Zealand and South Africa, the scrums were 13, 1 resets, 3 collapses.
In the third Tri-Nations match, between Australia and South Africa, the scrums were 23, 10 reset, 16 collapses.
In the fourth Tri-Nations match, between Australia and New Zealand, the scrums were 16, 6 reset, 13 collapses.
In the fifth Tri-Nations match, between New Zealand and Australia, the scrums were 11, 7 resets, 12 collapses.
In the sixth Tri-Nations match, between South Africa and New Zealand, the scrums were 24, 5 resets, 2 collapses.
In the seventh Tri-Nations match, between Australia and South Africa, the scrums were 18, 3 reset, 5 collapses.
In the eighth Tri-Nations match, between Australia and South Africa, the scrums were 16, 7 reset, 6 collapses.
In matches involving only New Zealand and South Africa, there were 60 scrums, 8 resets and 8 collapses.
In matches involving Australia, there were 84 scrums, 33 resets and 52 collapses.
The last two matches involving Australia were much better – 34 scrums, 10 resets, 11 collapses. This has been a great improvement in scrums involving Australia.
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 78
South Africa vs New Zealand: 71
Stoppages in the Tri-Nations matches:
New Zealand vs South Africa (i): 81
New Zealand vs South Africa (ii): 71
Australia vs South Africa (i): 82
Australia vs New Zealand (i): 65
New Zealand vs Australia: 81
South Africa vs New Zealand: 85
South Africa vs Australia (i): 71
South Africa vs Australia (ii): 78
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
South Africa vs Australia: 9
South Africa: 8
Australia: 1
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
South Africa: 8/1
Australia: 1/1
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 9/2
In the first Test of the Tri-Nations the ratio was 2/5
In the second Test of the Tri-Nations the ratio was 3/11
In the third Test of the Tri-Nations the ratio was 2/4
In the fourth Test of the Tri-Nations the ratio was 7/1
In the fifth Test of the Tri-Nations the ratio was 5/6
In the sixth Test of the Tri-Nations the ratio was 3/0
In the seventh Test of the Tri-Nations the ratio was 5/2
In the eighth Test of the Tri-Nations the ratio was 9/2
Some Tri-Nations totals
Penalties per match:
New Zealand vs South Africa (i): 5 + 8 = 13
New Zealand vs South Africa (ii): 8 + 7 = 15
Australia vs South Africa (i): 6 + 3 = 9
Australia vs New Zealand (i): 3 + 4 = 7
New Zealand vs Australia: 5 + 7 = 12
South Africa vs New Zealand: 9 + 4 = 13
South Africa vs Australia (i): 5 + 4 = 9
South Africa vs Australia (ii): 3 + 2 = 5
Penalties per team:
Australia: 6 + 3 + 7 + 4 + 2 = 21
New Zealand: 5 + 8 + 4 + 5 + 4 = 26
South Africa: 8 + 7 + 3 + 9 + 5 + 3 = 35
Free kicks conceded per match:
New Zealand vs South Africa (i): 8 + 8 = 16
New Zealand vs South Africa (ii): 7 + 13 = 20
Australia vs South Africa (i): 6 + 9 = 15
Australia vs New Zealand (i): 19 + 14 = 33
New Zealand vs Australia: 8 + 8 = 16
South Africa vs New Zealand: 10 + 8 = 18
South Africa vs Australia (i): 7 + 6 = 13
South Africa vs Australia (ii): 7 + 12 = 19
Free kicks conceded per team
Australia: 6 + 19 + 8 + 6 + 12 = 52
New Zealand: 8 + 7 + 14 + 8 + 8 = 45
South Africa: 8 + 13 + 9 + 10 + 7 + 7 = 54
Tries per match:
New Zealand vs South Africa (i): 1 + 1 = 2
New Zealand vs South Africa (ii): 1 + 2 = 3
Australia vs South Africa (i): 2 + 0 = 2
Australia vs New Zealand (i): 4 + 3 = 7
New Zealand vs Australia: 4 + 1 = 5
South Africa vs New Zealand: 0 + 3 = 3
South Africa vs Australia (i): 2 + 3 = 5
South Africa vs Australia (ii): 8 + 1 = 9
Tries per team:
Australia: 2 + 4 + 1 + 3 + 1 = 11
New Zealand: 1 + 1 + 3 + 4 + 3 = 12
South Africa: 1 + 2 + 0 + 0 + 2 + 8 = 13
