8 Jul

Match Stats: Manu Samoa v All Blacks
by Tracey Nelson
8 Jul 2015

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 the 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 who came on as a substitute.

This week:

Team:	Tony Woodcock, Keven Mealamu, Owen Franks, Luke Romano, Sam Whitelock, Jerome Kaino, Richie McCaw (c), Kieran Read, Andy Ellis, Dan Carter, Charles Sonny Bill Williams, Ryan Crotty,George Moala, Israel Dagg
Reserves:	Hika Elliot, Wyatt Crockett, Nepo Laulala, Brodie Retallick, Matt Todd, Brad Weber, Colin Slade, Charlie Ngatai

Points scored	NZ	Manu Samoa
Tries	1	1
Conversions	1	1
Penalties	6/7	3/4
TOTAL	25	16

Goal Kicking	Penalties	Conversions
Carter	6/7	1/1
Pisi	3/4	1/31

Penalties/Free Kicks Conceded	Penalties	Free kicks
NZ	12	0
Manu Samoa	9	0
TOTAL	21	0

NZ Penalty Offences
Tackled player	Whitelock	1
Tackler	McCaw	1
Ruck off feet	Whitelock	1
Ruck offside	Kaino/Williams, Retallick, Williams	3
Playing ball on ground	Dagg	1
Offside general play	Williams, Franks, Whitelock/Franks	3
Scrum	Franks	1
Obstruction	Crotty	1
TOTAL		12

Manu Samoa Penalty Offences
Ruck offside	2
Offside general play	2
Offside from knock on	1
Scrum	3
Backchat	1
TOTAL	9

Turnovers Conceded by NZ
Knock-ons	Read(2), Dagg(2), Franks, Williams, Piutau, McCaw,Moala,Retallick*	10
Forward Pass	Williams, Elliot	2
Tackle	Williams(2), Ellis, Weber	4
Ruck		1
Kick out on full	Carter	2
TOTAL		19

Turnovers Conceded by Manu Samoa
Knock-ons	11
Tackle	2
Lineout	1
Maul	1
Scrum	2
Miss touch from penalty	2
TOTAL	19

Breakdown turnovers won by NZ
Tackle	McCaw, Elliot	2
TOTAL		2

First 3 to Breakdown	Total	Per half
McCaw	26	17+9
Mealamu	13	12+1
Woodcock	13	9+4
Franks	12	11+1
Read	11	7+4
Whitelock	10	8+2
Crotty	9	5+4
Romano	9	4+5
Kaino	7	6+1
Williams	6	3+3
Crockett*	5
Moala	5	5+0
Todd*	4
Ellis	4	3+1
Carter	4	2+2
Dagg	4	3+1
Retallick*	3
Slade*	2
Piatau	2	1+1
Weber*	1
Ngatai*	1

Forward ball carries	Carries
Kaino	5
Read	4
McCaw	4
Woodcock	4
Whitelock	4
Retallick*	4
Mealamu	3
Franks	2
Todd*	1
Eilliot*	1
Laulala*	1
TOTAL	42

Completed Tackles and Assists	Tackles	Assists
Romano	10 (5+5)	4 (1+3)
Read	10 (5+5)	1 (1+0)
McCaw	9 (3+6)	4 (2+2)
Crotty	9 (5+4)	0
Ellis	6 (2+4)	2 (2+0)
Mealamu	6 (1+5)	0
Piutau	6 (2+4)	0
Franks	5 (4+1)	4 (1+3)
Kaino	5 (2+3)	1 (0+1)
Todd*	5	1
Carter	4 (1+3)	4 (3+1)
Williams	4 (2+2)	2 (1+1)
Whitelock	4 (3+1)	0
Dagg	3 (3+0)	0
Elliot*	2	0
Crockett*	2	0
Laulala*	2	0
Weber*	2	0
Moala	2 (0+2)	0
Retallick*	1	2
Slade*	1	0
TOTAL	98	23