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