Game Stats: England v All Blacks, Twickenham, 2 December 2012
by Tracey Nelson
2 Dec 2012
The usual analysis of the All Blacks’ game, being the First 3 to the Breakdown, ball carries, tackle stats, penalties conceded, turnovers, the lineouts, and scrums. Some notes on these stats follow throughout the article.
Numbers in brackets are the first half/second half breakdown for each TOTAL. An asterisk denotes a player that came on as a substitute. This week:
Team: | Tony Woodcock, Keven Mealamu, Owen Franks, Brodie Retallick, Sam Whitelock, Liam Messam, Richie McCaw, Kieran Read, Aaron Smith, Dan Carter, Julian Savea, Ma’a Nonu, Conrad Smith, Cory Jane, Israel Dagg |
Reserves: | Dane Coles, Wyatt Crockett, Ben Faumuina, Luke Romano, Victor Vito, Piri Weepu, Aaron Cruden, Ben Smith |
Subs: Romano for Retallick at 49 min, Faumuina for Franks at 52 min, Vito for Messam and Coles for Mealamu at 62 min, Weepu for A Smith and Cruden for Carter at 64 min, Crockett for Woodcock at 66 min, B Smith for Dagg at 70 min.
Points Scored | NZ | England | |
---|---|---|---|
Tries | 3 | 3 | |
Conversions | 3 | 1 | |
Penalties | 0 from 2 | 5 from 5 | |
TOTAL | 21 | 38 |
Penalties/Free Kicks Conceded | Pen | FKs |
---|---|---|
NZ | 13 | 0 |
England | 11 | 2 |
TOTAL | 24 | 2 |
NZ Penalty Offences | ||
---|---|---|
Tackled player | Retallick, Dagg | 2 |
Tackler not rolling | Read, Nonu | 2 |
Ruck off feet | Read/McCaw | 1 |
Ruck slowing ball | Read | 1 |
Ruck loitering | Crockett* | 1 |
Offside general play | Nonu, McCaw | 2 |
Offside from kick | Jane | 1 |
Scrum | Woodcock, Franks, Front row | 3 |
TOTAL | 13 |
England Penalty Offences | |
---|---|
Tackler | 2 |
Ruck off feet | 2 |
Ruck entry | 2 |
Ruck offside | 1 |
Offside general | 1 |
Scrum | 1 |
Deliberate knock on | 1 |
Deliberately not retiring | 1 + YC |
TOTAL | 11 |
Turnovers Conceded by NZ | ||
---|---|---|
Knock-ons | Dagg, C Smith, Read, Romano*, Whitelock, Vito* | 6 |
Intercepted pass | Read | 1 |
Tackle | Retallick, A Smith, Messam | 3 |
Lineout | 2 | |
Scrum | 1 | |
Kick out on full | 1 | |
TOTAL | 14 |
Turnovers Conceded by England | |
---|---|
Knock-ons | 6 |
Tackle | 1 |
Maul | 3 |
Lineout | 2 |
Scrum | 1 |
Miss touch from penalty | 1 |
Pass into touch | 1 |
TOTAL | 15 |
First Three to the Breakdown stats are looking for those players who are getting to the tackle/breakdown quickly and are also being useful by either cleaning out opposition players or setting up ruck ball. Anyone arriving and just leaning pointlessly on the side of a ruck isn’t included in these numbers.
First 3 to Breakdown | Total | Per half |
---|---|---|
McCaw | 32 | 17+15 |
Franks | 20 | 13+7 |
Whitelock | 19 | 8+11 |
Read | 18 | 10+8 |
Messam | 16 | 10+6 |
Retallick | 15 | 11+4 |
C Smith | 15 | 7+8 |
Mealamu | 13 | 9+4 |
Woodcock | 12 | 9+3 |
Romano* | 8 | |
Nonu | 8 | 4+4 |
Crockett* | 5 | |
Faumuina* | 5 | |
Carter | 5 | 4+1 |
Dagg | 5 | 3+2 |
Coles* | 4 | |
Vito* | 3 | |
Savea | 3 | 2+1 |
B Smith* | 2 | |
Jane | 2 | 1+1 |
Forward ball carries and metres gained | No of carries | Metres |
---|---|---|
McCaw | 9 | 15 |
Read | 8 | 25 |
Mealamu | 6 | 2 |
Woodcock | 4 | 6 |
Messam | 3 | 7 |
Whitelock | 3 | 8 |
Faumuina* | 3 | 6 |
Retallick | 3 | 4 |
Vito* | 2 | 18 |
Crockett* | 2 | 3 |
Romano* | 2 | 1 |
Franks | 1 | 4 |
Coles* | 1 | 1 |
Completed Tackles means that player actually brought the ball carrier to ground (ie. as the Laws of the Game actually described the tackler), not assists in the tackle situation which are tallied separately.
Completed Tackles and Assists | Tackles | Assists |
---|---|---|
Read | 11 (5+6 | 1 (0+1) |
McCaw | 9 (4+5) | 3 (1+2) |
Whitelock | 9 (5+4) | 1 (1+0) |
Carter | 8 (8+0) | 2 (2+0) |
Faumuina* | 7 | 1 |
Nonu | 7 (5+2) | 1 (0+1) |
Franks | 7 (6+1) | 0 |
Woodcock | 6 (5+2) | 2 (2+0) |
C Smith | 6 (3+3) | 1 (1+0) |
Romano* | 5 | 0 |
Crockett* | 5 | 0 |
Coles* | 4 | 1 |
Weepu* | 3 | 0 |
Retallick | 3 (3+0) | 2 (2+0) |
Mealamu | 3 (3+0) | 1 (1+0) |
Jane | 3 (2+1) | 0 |
Vito* | 2 | |
Messam | 2 (2+0) | 1 (1+0) |
Cruden* | 1 | 0 |
Dagg | 1 (0+1) | 0 |
A Smith | 1 (0+1) | 0 |
TOTAL | 103 | 17 |
Missed tackles also includes slipped tackles where the ball runner gets away. Most importantly, I do NOT included slipped tackles in the Tackles Made stats, it gets noted as a missed tackle. Either you’ve made the tackle or you’ve missed it.
Missed and Slipped Tackles | ||
---|---|---|
Read | 3 | |
Retallick | 2 | |
A Smith | 2 | |
Carter | 2 | |
Nonu | 2 | |
Woodcock | 1 | |
Whitelock | 1 | |
McCaw | 1 | |
Savea | 1 | |
Jane | 1 | |
Faumuina | 1 | |
TOTAL | 1 |
NZ Line-outs | Won | From |
---|---|---|
First half | 5 | 7 |
Second half | 5 | 5 |
TOTAL | 10 | 12 |
NZ Line-out Jumpers | Won | From |
---|---|---|
Whitelock | 4 | 4 |
Retallick | 2 | 2 |
Read | 2 | 2 |
Messam | 1 | 1 |
Romano | 1 | 1 |
Not straight | 1 | |
Overthrown | 1 | |
TOTAL | 10 | 12 |
England Line-outs | Won | From |
---|---|---|
First half | 8 | 9 |
Second half | 3 | 4 |
TOTAL | 11 | 13 |
NZ Scrums | Won | From |
---|---|---|
First half | 6 | 6 |
Second half | 1 | 2 |
TOTAL | 7 | 8 |
England Scrums | Won | From |
---|---|---|
First half | 2 | 2 |
Second half | 2 | 3 |
TOTAL | 4 | 5 |