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
