Stats: Tri-Nations, Week 6

The All Blacks beat the Springboks 19-0 at Newlands, the first time the Springboks have scored nil at Newlands since 1891 and their second biggest defeat ever.

Sanctions

There was none. Brad Thorn may well have been lucky not to have had one when he went out of his way to obstruct. The referee referred to his act as "silly" but it did seem a worse act than the ones that had earned Jean de Villiers and Schalk Burger a warning at a tackle.

Cards to far

Victor Matfield (South Africa) - high tackle
Brad Thorn (New Zealand) - high tackle

Citing with suspension so far

Brad Thorn (Australia) - an act contrary to good sportsmanship, suspended for a week.
Bismarck du Plessis (South Africa) -  contact with the eyes or eye area, suspended for three weeks

Penalties conceded

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

* = points conceded

South Africa vs New Zealand

Total number of penalties: 13

South Africa: 9
New Zealand: 4

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

South Africa:

Tackle: 5 (De Villiers, Mtawarira & Du Plessis, Mtawarira, Burger, Rossouw)
Off-side: 2 (Steyn, Smith)
Scrum: 1 (Van der Linde)
Discipline: 1 (Obstruction - Du Preez)

New Zealand:

Discipline: 4 (McCaw - man without ball; Cowan - shoulder charge; Thorn - obstruction; So'oialo - late shoulder charge)

New Zealand's penalty count is unusual as all the penalties were for breaches of discipline, none of which warranted a talking to.

New Zealand missed four penalty kicks at goal, South Africa two.

Free kicks conceded:

South Africa: 10 (6 tackles, 2 marks, 1 maul, 1 line-out)
New Zealand: 8 (8 tackles)

Of the free kicks, five were turned into scrums.

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.

South Africa:

Line-outs: 8 (2 lost, 2 quick)
Scrums: 11 (3 resets)
Drop-outs: 3

New Zealand:

Line-outs: 11 (2 lost, 1 skew, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 13 (2 reset, 2 collapses, 1 penalty)
Drop-outs: 5

The scrums were much better.

In the first Tri-Nations match, between New Zealand and South Africa, the scrums were 23, 2 resets, 3 collapses.
In the second Tri-Nations match, between New Zealand and South Africa, the scrums were 13, 1 resets, 3 collapses.
In the third Tri-Nations match, between Australia and South Africa,  the scrums were 23, 10 reset, 16 collapses.
In the fourth Tri-Nations match, between Australia and New Zealand,  the scrums were 16, 6 reset, 13 collapses.
In the fifth Tri-Nations match, between New Zealand and Australia, the scrums were 11, 7 resets, 12 collapses.
In the sixth Tri-Nations match, between South Africa and New Zealand, the scrums were 24, 5 resets, 2 collapses.

In matches involving only New Zealand and South Africa, there were 60 scrums, 8 resets and 8 collapses.
In matches involving Australia, there were 50 scrums, 23 resets and 41 collapses.

It will be interswting to see if this ridicuklous situation persists nex week.

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

South Africa vs New Zealand: 87

Stoppages in the Tri-Nations matches:

New Zealand vs South Africa (i): 81
New Zealand vs South Africa (ii): 71
Australia vs South Africa (i): 82
Australia vs New Zealand (i): 65
New Zealand vs Australia: 81
South Africa vs New Zealand: 87

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

South Africa vs New Zealand: 3

South Africa: 0
New Zealand: 3

Tries/penalties scored

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

South Africa: 0/0
New Zealand: 3/0

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 3/0

In the first Test of the Tri-Nations the ratio was 2/5
In the second Test of the Tri-Nations the ratio was 3/11
In the third Test of the Tri-Nations the ratio was 2/4
In the fourth Test of the Tri-Nations the ratio was 7/1
In the fifth Test of the Tri-Nations the ratio was 5/6
In the sixth Test of the Tri-Nations the ratio was 3/0