All posts tagged "statistics"

After an ordinary start to the 2011 international season against Samoa, the Wallabies bounced back with an...

After six rounds in the Super Rugby competition, the greater number of games played is providing us...

This week we take a look at attacking statistics after four rounds. When I’m looking at ways...

As we approach the 2011 Super Rugby season, let’s look back at the statistics from 2010 to...

In a recent post I gave you details of the Wallaby players’ tackling performances in 2010. Here’s a little more detail that shows how the team went against all the different teams they played in 2010. Let’s start with the number of tackles attempted. While the average number of tackles in all...

While the Wallabies’ result against France was fantastic, most people have acknowledged that the French played poorly....

The defence numbers for the Wallabies in their game against Italy look impressive: 94 per cent of tackles...

For me, the Wallabies losing to England is worse than if they lose to New Zealand.  What was even...

Statistics don’t always tell the full picture!  Did you realise that the Wallabies and Wales both won...

The All Blacks completed a clean sweep of the Tri Nations competition in 2010, the first team...

Whilst the Wallabies went down again, making it ten in a row against the All Blacks, it...

There were some positive signs from the Wallabies last weekend, unfortunately offset by some negatives.  I’d prefer...

A much better performance from the Wallabies last week but the All Blacks still look another step...

Last night to prepare these statistics I watched the game for the first time since seeing it...

Whilst the Wallabies played by far their best game of 2010 against the Springboks on Saturday, there...

Did you get a feeling of deja vu watching game 2 of the Tri Nations between the...

WARNING!!! If the pain from yesterday’s video on lost possession hasn’t subsided, don’t watch the video because although it’s not quite as painful, it’s shows plenty of “basic” mistakes the Wallabies need to eliminate. In the first four tests of the season the Wallabies have kicked the ball 82 times – that’s around 40% of...

So far in the 2010 season the Wallabies have given up possession 60 times (an average of 15 times per game) though forward passes, dropped ball, getting bundled into touch or chip & grubber kicks that have gone wrong.  That’s 30% of the times they’ve started a possession sequence. When you watch the...

It was obvious to anyone watching the first game of the Tri Nations last weekend that the All Blacks went in with a deliberate policy of keeping the ball in play to minimise the impact of the Springbok lineout and tire the big South African forwards. Whilst the number of times in possession...

Wow! We have some very attentive readers.  The number of things people picked up that might link the eights scrums I showed you last week together was amazing.  It may well be that some of those even apply to 74 of the 75 scrums so far this season but there’s only one...