Tri-Nations, Week 6, Statistics
The Tri-Nations came to an end on Saturday with the rain-bedevilled match at Eden Park which saw New Zealand win both the Tri-Nations Cup and the Bledisloe Cup. We give some statistics of the match.
We give some Tri-Nations stats accumatively.
Later in the week we shall discuss some incidents in the match from a law point of view.
Soudsure are again a great help with the statistics.
Sanctionary Cards
There were no yellow cards this week. Alleluia..
Recipients during the Tri-Nations
Week 1: Pierre Spies (South Africa)
Week 2: Pedrie Wannenburg (South Africa)
Week 3: Carl Hayman (New Zealand)
Week 4: Gary Botha (South Africa), Johann Muller (South Africa)
Week 5: Pedrie Wannenburg (South Africa)
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
New Zealand vs Australia
Total number of penalties: 18
New Zealand: 13
Australia: 5
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
New Zealand:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Woodcock & Oliver, McCaw*, McAlister*)
Scrum: 1 (McCaw*)
Discipline: 1 (Robinson & McCaw – obstruction)
Australia:
Tackle/ruck: 6 (Elsom* 2, Moore, Larkham*, Smith*, Hoiles)
Off-side: 2 (Giteau** 2)
Scrum: 2 (Dunning 2)
Discipline: 3 (Ashley-Cooper* – throwing ball away; Mortlock* – high tackle; McMenamin – air tackle)
Neither side 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:
New Zealand vs Australia: 9/18 = 50%
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 vs Australia
New Zealand:
Line-outs: 19 (4 lost, 1 penalty)
Scrums: 3 (5 reset, 5 collapses, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1
New Zealand did not put the ball into a scrum in the first half.
Australia:
Line-outs: 10
Scrums: 8 (4 reset, 7 collapses, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 2
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
New Zealand vs Australia: 66
Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:
New Zealand vs Australia: 182
Kicks per match
New Zealand vs Australia: 51
New Zealand: 23
Australia: 28
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.)
New Zealand vs Australia: 10 (4)
Hold-ups for injury:
New Zealand vs Australia: 4
Substitutions/replacements:
New Zealand vs Australia: 10
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
New Zealand vs Australia:
New Zealand: 1
Australia: 0
Tries/penalties scored
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 was 4/3
In Week 4 the ratio was 5/3
In Week 5 the ratio was 3/6
In Week 6 the ratio was 1/10
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: 8 + 11 = 19
New Zealand vs Australia: 5 + 13 = 18
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: 3 + 0 = 3
New Zealand vs Australia: 1 + 0 = 1
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: 28 + 29 = 57
New Zealand vs Australia: 23 + 28 = 51
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: 68
New Zealand vs Australia: 66
Penalties conceded per tea/m
Australia: 7 + 9 + 6 + 13 = 35
New Zealand: 4 + 10 + 8 + 5 = 27
South Africa: 6 + 7 + 11 + 11 = 35
Penalties against:
Home teams: 41
Visiting teams: 58
Tries per team
Australia: 1 + 2 + 3 + 0 = 6
New Zealand: 2 + 2 + 3 + 1 = 8
South Africa: 1 + 2 + 2 + 0 = 5
