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Bledisloe 4 Stats

By Paul Dobson
Monday 3 Nov 2008

Bledisloe Cup Mark 4 may not have had any bearing on the destination of the Bledisloe Cup in 2008 but there was not less passion and endeavour because of that as the two great teams met in sweaty Hong Kong before a crowd of some 39 000. We give some statistics of the match.

Sanctions

Sanctionary Cards

There was none.

Penalties conceded

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

Total number of penalties: 16

Australia: 10
New Zealand: 6

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Australia:
Tackle/ruck: 6 (Smith, Brown* 2, Baxter*, Mumm, Hynes)
Offside: 1 (Brown)
Scrum: 2 (Robinson & Moore*, Robinson
Discipline: 1 (Mortlock - high tackle)

New Zealand:
Tackle/ruck: 5 (Hore, Sivivatu 2, Kaino, Somerville)
Off-side: 1 (Boric)

Each side missed a penalty kick at goal.

Free Kicks conceded: 4

Australia: 0
New Zealand: 4 (2 mark, 2 scrums)

One free kick became a 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.

Australia vs New Zealand

Australia:

Line-outs: 10 (1 lost)
Scrums: 9 (5 reset, 3 collapses, 1 free kick)
Drop-outs: 2

New Zealand:

Line-outs: 17 (2 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 10 (5 reset, 10 collapses, 1 free kick, 2 penalties)
Drop-outs: 1

After a happy time watching scrummaging in New Zealand, South Africa, England and France it was disappointing to see the Land of the Falling Scrum in action again - 19 scrums, 10 resets, 13 collapses, 2 free kicks and 2 penalties. It's not good for rugby.

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 78

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Australia vs New Zealand: 4

Australia: 2
New Zealand: 2

Tries/penalties scored

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

Australia: 2/0
New Zealand: 2/3

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 4/3

Kicks: 58

Australia: 28
New Zealand: 30

Tackle/Ruck/Maul: 124

Stoppages for injuries: 5
Stoppages for replacements: 9
Stoppages for assistant referees' reports: 0

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