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Tri-Nations, Week 4, Statistics

The controversial Tri-Nations match between Australia and South Africa – controversial because of the coimposition of the South African team – was not as one-sided as predicted.

We give some statistics of the match and some Tri-Nations stats accumatively.

Soudsure are again a great help with the statistics.

Santionary Cards

There were two yellow cards thois week – to Gary Botha and Johan Muller, both of South Africa. Some people may find it strange that George Smith avoided one.

Recipients

Week 1: Pierre Spies (South Africa)
Week 2: Pedrie Wannenburg (South Africa)
Week 3: Carl Hayman (New Zealand)
Week 4: Gary Botha (South Africa), Johan Muller (South Africa)

Penalties conceded

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

Australia vs South Africa

Total number of penalties: 17

Australia: 6
South Africa: 11

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Australia:

Tackle/ruck: 2 (Smith, Baxter)
Off-side: 1 (Sharpe*)
Discipline: 3 (Sharpe – collpasing maul; Smith – high & swinging arm; Hardman – collpasing maul)

South Africa:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Wannenburg, Skinstad*, Botha, Bismarck du Plessis)
Off-side: 2 (Pienaar, Wannenburg)
Discipline: 4 (Jannie du Plessis* – collapsing maul; Skinstad – dissent; Wannenburg – high; Muller – punching)

South Africa missed three penalty kicks at goal.

Tackles/Penalties

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties:

Australia vs South Africa: 6/17 = 35%

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.

Australia vs South Africa

Australia:

Line-outs: 17 (2 skew, 1 quick)
Scrums: 9 (1 reset, 2 collpases)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 2

South Africa:

Line-outs: 14 (2 lost)
Scrums: 9 (2 reset, 2 collpases, 1 wheel)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 1

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

Australia vs South Africa: 74

Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:

Australia vs South Africa: 175

Kicks per match

Australia vs South Africa: 54

Australia: 29
South Africa: 25

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.)

Australia vs South Africa: 13 (7)

Hold-ups for injury:

Australia vs South Africa: 9

Substitutions/replacements:

Australia vs South Africa: 12

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Australia vs South Africa:

Australia: 3
South Africa: 2

Tries/penalties scored

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

Australia: 3/2
South Africa: 2/1

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is

In Week 1 the ratio was 2/7
In Week 2 the ratio was 4/8
In Week 3 the ratio was4/3
In Week 4 the ratio was 5/3

Totals per week

Penalties

South Africa vs Australia: 6 + 7 = 13
South Africa vs New Zealand: 7 + 4 = 11
Australia vs New Zealand: 9 + 10 = 19
Australia vs South Africa: 6 + 11 = 17
New Zealand vs South Africa:
New Zealand vs Australia:

Tries

South Africa vs Australia: 1 + 1 = 2
South Africa vs New Zealand: 2 + 2 = 4
Australia vs New Zealand: 2 + 2 = 4
Australia vs South Africa: 3 + 2 = 5
New Zealand vs South Africa:
New Zealand vs Australia:

Kicks

South Africa vs Australia: 29 + 36 = 65
South Africa vs New Zealand: 41 = 40 = 81
Australia vs New Zealand: 23 + 18 = 41
Australia vs South Africa: 29 + 25 = 54
New Zealand vs South Africa:
New Zealand vs Australia:

Stoppages

South Africa vs Australia: 67
South Africa vs New Zealand: 68
Australia vs New Zealand: 85
Australia vs South Africa: 74
New Zealand vs South Africa:
New Zealand vs Australia:

Penalties conceded per team

Australia: 7 + 9 + 6 = 22
New Zealand: 4 + 10 = 14
South Africa: 6 + 7 + 11 = 24

Tries per team

Australia: 1 + 2 + 3 = 6
New Zealand: 2 + 2 = 4
South Africa: 1 + 2 + 2 = 5

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