Stats - Tri-Nations, Week 1
It was a big collision in wet, windy Wellington and the All Blacks collided better than the Springboks and deserved their `19-8 victory. We give some statistics from the match.
Sanctions
There was fighting but no yellow card. But there was a citing which resulted in the smallest possible suspension – one week. Oh, it could have been smaller, week could have been day. It seems that slap on the wrist had not become a wrap over the knuckles – with a length of cottonwool. And the finding was “an act contrary to good sportsmanship”, not a dangerous tackle. In the match he was penalised for a dangerous tackle.
Cards
None
Citing with suspension
Brad Thorn (New Zealand) – an act contrary to good sportsmanship, suspended for a week.
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
* = points conceded
Total number of penalties: 13
New Zealand: 5
South Africa: 8
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
New Zealand:
Off-side: 2 (Hore, Wulf)
Scrum: 1 (Somerville*)
Discipline: 2 (Thorn – dangerous tackle; Thomson – obstruction)
South Africa:
Tackle/ruck: 2 (Van Niekerk, Habana)
Off-side: 3 (Botha* 2, Smit*)
Discipline: 3 (James – Late tackle; Matfield – air tackle; Burger* – early tackle)
Each side missed a penalty kick at goal.
Free kicks conceded:
New Zealand: 8 (7 tackles, 1 scrum)
South Africa: 8 (7 tackles, 1 scrum)
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.
New Zealand:
Line-outs: 18 (6 lost, 2 quick)
Scrums: 13 (1 collapse, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 8 (7 tackles, 1 scrum)
Drop-outs: 3
South Africa:
Line-outs: 17 (2 lost)
Scrums: 10 (2 reset, 1 collapse, 1 lost, 1 free kick, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 8 (7 tackles, 1 scrum)
Drop-outs: 0
The scrums were more orderly than usual.
Of the free kicks, one was turned into a scrum.
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
New Zealand vs South Africa: 81
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
New Zealand vs South Africa: 2
New Zealand: 1
South Africa: 1
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
New Zealand: 1/4
South Africa: 1/1
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 2/5
