In this round New Zealand played South Africa in windy, wet Wellington and won with a bonus point as again South Africa suffered disciplinary problems. We give some stats.
Result
New Zealand vs South Africa, 31-17
Sanctions
Sanctionary Cards
There again a yellow card this week - for Danie Rossouw (South Africa) for a light kick against Richie McCaw.
Recipients in Tri-Nations so far
Bakkies Botha (South Africa) - tackle infringement
Danie Rossouw (South Africa) - kick
Rene Ranger and Richie McCaw were probably lucky not to be yellow-carded - Ranger for an armless tackle that was more violent than Rossouw's kick and McCaw for repeated infringements at the tackle, two close to his line.
Cited and suspended
Jean de Villiers (South Africa) - for a tip tackle
Cited and suspended 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
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
Total number of penalties: 18
New Zealand: 9
South Africa: 9
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
New Zealand:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 7 (McCaw* 5, Nonu, Read)
Offside: 1 (Messam)
Discipline: 1 (Ranger - armless tackle)
Five penalties against one player at the tackle is an inordinate number.
South Africa:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 7 (Louw* 2, Burger, Kirchner* 2, BJ Botha, Smit)
Discipline: 2 (Rossouw - kick; Pienaar - deliberate knock-on)
New Zealand missed two penalty kicks at goal.
Tackles/Penalties
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 14/18 - 78%
This is a high percentage.
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.
New Zealand:
Line-outs: 9 (4 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 5 (4 resets, 4 collapses)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 0
South Africa:
Line-outs: 7
Scrums: 10 (2 resets, 1 collapse)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 2
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 58
This is a remarkably low number.
Scoring
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
New Zealand: 4 (Nonu, Muliaina, Ranger, Dagg)
South Africa: 2 (Rossouw, Burger)
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
New Zealand: 4/3
South Africa: 2/1
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 6/4
Tackles
Made
New Zealand: 77
South Africa: 90
Missed
New Zealand: 9
South Africa: 16
Rucks & Mauls
New Zealand: 84
South Africa: 71
Turnovers lost
New Zealand: 8
South Africa: 11
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