Tri-Nations, Week 1, Statistics
The Tri-Nations opened with an exciting match on a glorious day for rugby at Newlands, a thrilling match. We give some statistics of the match.
We also give the statistics of the match between New Zealand and Canada in Hamilton.
The Tri-Nations stats we shall keep accumulatively as the tournament advances.
Soudsure are again a great help with the statistics.
Sanctionary Cards
There was one recipient in the first week – Pierre Spies (South Africa).
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
* = points conceded
(I) South Africa vs Australia
Total number of penalties: 13
South Africa: 6
Australia: 7
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
South Africa:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Spies** 2, Burger* 2)
Off-side: 1 (Spies*)
Discipline: 1 (Burger – fighting)
Australia:
Tackle/ruck: 5 (Vickerman*, Smith, Moore, Elsom** 2)
Discipline: 4 (Shepherdson – collapsing maul, Dunning – collapsing maul)
South Africa missed a penalty kick at goal.
(ii) New Zealand vs Canada
Total number of penalties: 15
New Zealand: 7
Canada: 8
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
New Zealand:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Masoe, Flavell*, Filipo, Schwalger)
Off-side: 1 (Schwalger)
Discipline: 2 (Collins – high; Tialata – high)
Canada:
Tackle/Ruck: 7 (Yukes 2, Smith 2, Stephen, Culpan, Pritchard)
Canada 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:
South Africa vs Australia: 9/13 = 69%
New Zealand vs Canada: 7/15 = 46,6%
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.
(I) South Africa vs Australia
South Africa:
Line-outs: 16 (1 lost, 1 free kick, 1 quick)
Scrums: 6 (2 reset, 1 collapse)
Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)
Drop-outs: 0
Australia:
Line-outs: 13 (2 lost, 1 skew, 1 quick, 1 reset)
Scrums: 7 (5 reset, 4 collapses, 2 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 2 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 1
(ii) New Zealand vs Canada
New Zealand:
Line-outs: 16 (1 lost, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 9 (1 reset, 2 collapses)
Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)
Drop-outs: 1
Canada:
Line-outs: 9 (1 lost, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 6 (2 reset, 2 collapses, 3 lost, 1 wheel)
Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)
Drop-outs: 0
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
South Africa vs Australia: 67
New Zealand vs Canada: 63
Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:
South Africa vs Australia: 194
New Zealand vs Canada: 196
Kicks per match
South Africa vs Australia: 65
South Africa: 29
Australia: 36
New Zealand vs Canada: 25
This is a remarkably small number of kicks.
New Zealand: 16
Canada: 9
Advantage
Here we give the number of times in the match the referee allowed advantage. (The figure in brackets is the number times the advantage actually accrued.)
The success rate of advantage played in the New Zealand vs Canada match was abnormally high.
South Africa vs Australia: 25 (10)
New Zealand vs Canada: 27 (20)
Hold-ups for injury:
South Africa vs Australia: 4
New Zealand vs Canada: 5
Substitutions/replacements:
South Africa vs Australia: 11
New Zealand vs Canada: 11
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
(I) South Africa vs Australia:
South Africa: 1
Australia: 1
(ii) New Zealand vs Canada:
New Zealand: 10
Canada: 1
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Australia: 1/4
South Africa: 1/3
Canada: 1/2
New Zealand: 10/0
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled in the Tri-Nations
In Week 1 the ratio was 2/7
