Statistics: Currie Cup Final
Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:36
What a great match before a packed Loftus Versfeld! It was full of life and adventure as the home side took a 24-0 lead and then the Free State founght back to 30-24 before losing 36-24. We give some statistics of the match.
Sanctions
Sanctionary Cards
There was one - against Richardt Strauss of the Free State for verbal dissent of a rude kind to the asssiatant referee.
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
Blue Bulls vs Free State Cheetahs
Total number of penalties: 17
Blue Bulls: 8
Free State Cheetahs: 9
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
Blue Bulls:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 3 (Habana & Stegmann, Du Preez, Matfield)
Scrum: 2 (Steenkamp, Kruger)
Offside: 1
(Botha)
Discipline: 2 (Kuun - dissent; Kuun - not back 10)
Free State Cheetahs:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 3 (Mapoe, Potgieter* 2)
Discipline: 6 (Potgieter* - kneeing opponent; Uys* - not 10; Joubert - man without ball; Richardt Strauss - man withoput ball; Demas - air tackle; Richardt Strauss - dissent)
Each 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: 6/17 - 35% (This is a low 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.
Blue Bulls:
Line-outs: 4
Scrums: 9 (3 resets, 3 collapses, 1 penalty, 1 free kick, 1 wheel)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 mark, 1 lineout)
Drop-outs:
3
Free State Cheetahs:
Line-outs: 10 (1 lost, 1 quick, 2 free kicks)
Scrums: 12 (2 resets, 3 collpases, 1 wheel, 1 free kick, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 3 (2 scrums, 1 lineout)
Drop-outs: 1
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 66
This is a particularly low figure.
Using possession
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
Blue Bulls: 3 (Hougaard, Habana 2)
Free State Cheetahs: 3 (Viljoen, Uys, Breedt)
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Blue Bulls: 3/4
Free State Cheetahs: 3/0
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 6/4
Kicks
Blue Bulls: 27
Free State Cheetahs: 17
Tackle/ruck/mauls: 132
Advantage played: 12 times (5 times successfully)