8 Oct

Game Stats: All Blacks v Springboks, Johannesburg, 5 Oct 2013
by Tracey Nelson
8 Oct 2013

The usual analysis of the All Blacks game, being the First 3 to the Breakdown, tackle stats, penalties conceded, turnovers, the lineouts, and scrums.

Some notes on these stats:

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 on the ruck isn’t included, so there are times when I will only tally one or two players. Likewise, if four players arrive simultaneously and perform a clean-out and setting up of a ruck, I will include all four in the stat.

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.

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.

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, Andrew Hore, Charlie Faumuina, Brodie Retallick, Sam Whitelock, Liam Messam, Richie McCaw, Kieran Read (C), Aaron Smith, Aaron Cruden, Julian Savea, Ma’a Nonu, Conrad Smith, Ben Smith, Israel Dagg
Reserves:	Dane Coles, Wyatt Crockett, Ben Franks, Steve Luatua, Sam Cane, Tawera Kerr-Barlow, Beauden Barrett, Charles Piutau

Points Scored	NZ	South Africa
Tries	5	4
Conversions	Cruden 3, Barrett 2	Steyn 2
Penalties	Barrett 1/1	Steyn 1/1
TOTAL	38	27

Penalties/Free Kicks Conceded	Pen	FKs
NZ	9	1
South Africa	5	0
TOTAL	14	1

NZ Penalty Offences
Ruck hands	Hore	1
Ruck entry	Messam Yellow Card	1
Ruck offside	C Smith, Nonu	2
Maul	Hore	1
Scrum	Bind?, Crockett	2
Obstruction	Whitelock	1
Foul play	Franks Yellow Card	1
TOTAL		9

South Africa Penalty Offences
Tackler no arms	1
Tackled player	1
Ruck offside	1
Offside general	1
Scrum	1
TOTAL	5

Turnovers Conceded by NZ
Knock-ons	Whitelock, Retallick, Read, A Smith, Crockett, McCaw	6
Pass to opposition	Dagg, Luatua	2
Forward pass	Cruden	1
Scrum		1
Lineout		2
Accidental offside	2
TOTAL		16

Turnovers Conceded by South Africa
Knock-ons	11
Spilled ball	1
Forward pass	1
Ruck	1
Tackle	4
Maul	2
Lineout	5
Scrum	1
TOTAL	26

Tackle turnovers won by NZ
Tackle	Read, Retallick, Cane
Ruck	McCaw
TOTAL	4

First 3 to Breakdown	Total	Per half
McCaw	34	18+16
Whitelocks	23	13+10
Woodcock	15	13+2
Retallick	14	10+4
Crockett*	12
Read	11	7+5
Hore	11	11+0
Faumuina	10	6+4
Coles*	8
Messam	7	6+1
Nonu	7	3+4
B Franks*	5
Cane*	4
Dagg	4	3+1
Savea	4	3+1
Luatua*	3
B Smith	3	1+2
C Smith	3	0+3
Cruden	2	2+0
Kerr-Barlow*	1
Barrett*	1
A Smith	1	0+1

Ball carries and metres gained	No of carries	Metres
Read	7	86
Whitelock	7	25
Messam	5	60
B Franks	4	26
Retallick	4	19
McCaw	4	14
Faumuina	3
Woodcock	2	15
Luatua	2	12
Coles	2	11
Cane	1	4
Hore	1	1
TOTAL	42	282

Completed Tackles and Assists	Tackles	Assists
McCaw	15 (4+11)	7 (3+4)
Read	13 (2+11)	6 (1+5)
Nonu	11 (5+6)	2 (1+1)
C Smith	11 (3+8)	1 (1+0)
A smith	10 (2+8)	1 (1+0)
Faumuina	9 (7+2)	0
Crockett*	7	1
Woodcock	6 (2+4)	3 (1+2)
Whitelock	6 (0+6)	2 (1+1)
Cruden	6 (3+3)	1 (1+0)
Coles*	5	1
B Smith	5 (2+3)	1 (0+1)
Savea	5 (3+2)	0
Dagg	5 (2+3)	0
Messam	4 (1+3)	4 (3+1)
Barrett*	4	0
Retallick	4 (2+2)	3 (1+2)
Hore	3 (3+0)1 (0+1)
Luatua*	3	0
Kerr-Barlow*	3	0
Piutau*	3	0
B Franks*	2	0
Cane*	1	0
TOTAL	141	35