Statistics: Tri-Nations, Round Three
Australia played South Africa in Brisbane and won 30-13 in a match of speed and few stoppages. We give some statistics from the match.
Sanctions
Sanctionary cards
There were three yellow cards this week - for Jaque Fourie (South Africa) and Quade Cooper (Australia) for dangerous (tip) tackles and for BJ Botha (South Africa) for a tackle infringement.
David Pocock (Australia) is fortunate not to have received a yellow card.
Recipients in Tri-Nations so far
Bakkies Botha (South Africa) - tackle infringement
Danie Rossouw (South Africa) - kick
Jaque Fourie (South Africa - dangerous tackle
Quade Cooper (Australia) - dangerous tackle
BJ Botha (South Africa - tackle infringement
Cited and suspended
Both Jaque Fourie and Quade Cooper were cited and suspended - Fourie for four weeks, Cooper for two.
Cited and Suspended in Tri-Nations so far
Bakkies Botha (South Africa) for a headbutt - suspended for nine weeks
Jean de Villiers (South Africa) for a tip tackle - suspended for two weeks
Jaque Fourie (South Africa for a dangerous tackle - suspended for four weeks
Quade Cooper (Australia) for a dangerous tackle - suspended for two weeks
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
Australia vs South Africa
Total number of penalties: 17
Australia: 7
South Africa: 10
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
Australia:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 4 (Ma'afu*, Pocock 3)
Offside: 1 (Sharpe)
Scrum: 1 (Robinson)
Discipline: 1 (Cooper - dangerous tackle)
South Africa:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 5 (Habana*, Olivier, Kankowski*, Botha*, Burger)
Off-side: 3 (Burger*, Habana*, Pienaar*)
Discipline: 2 (Fourie - dangerous tackle; De Jongh - man without ball)
Australia 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: 9/17 - 53%
Getting possession - line-outs, scrums, free-kicks, drop-outs
In this section the figures represent the number of times you get to play with the ball.
Australia:
Line-outs: 6
Scrums: 2 (2 resets, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 1
South Africa:
Line-outs: 11 (1 lost)
Scrums: 8 (4 resets, 7 collapses, 1 free kick, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 0
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 53
This remarkably low.
Scoring
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
Australia: 2 (Mitchell, Genia)
South Africa: 2 (Fourie, Steenkamp)
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Australia: 2/6
South Africa: 2/1
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 4/7
Some Totals in the 2010 Tri-Nations
Penalties conceded per country
Australia: 7
New Zealand: 12 + 9 = 21
South Africa: 5 + 9 + 10 = 24
Tries scored per country
Australia: 2
New Zealand: 4 + 4 = 8
South Africa: 0 + 2 + 2 = 4
Disciplinary sanctions per country
Australia: Y, C
New Zealand: 0
South Africa: 4 Y, 3 C
Y = yellow card
C = citing and suspension