The Stats: Wallabies v Wales

It’s been a little painful preparing statistics for the last two games against Ireland and Scotland because you need to watch and re-watch segments to confirm what happened.  Re-living the missed opposrtunities in both of those games was hard but it’s been a pleasure re-watching the Wales game.

So many positives but still things to work on – in partcular a number of lazy missed tackles.  The performance of the front row, Pocock and Smith was outstanding.  A total of 12 turnovers at the breakdown with Smith leading the way with 5 and Pocock with 3.  All lineouts won, two Welsh lineouts won and those scrums …..

The change in the way the game flowed shows up in the statistics.  In the first half the Wallabies took the ball into 30 breakdowns against 32 for Wales.  In the second half the Wallavies took the ball into 17 breakdowns against 75 for the Welsh. In the first half the Wallabies made 36 tackles but in the second half they had to make 90.

Here’s a summary of the Wallabies stats:

Wallabies		1st Half	2nd Half	Match
Breakdowns	Ball Taken In	30	17	47
	Retained	27	16	43
	Turnover	3	1	4
	Retained %	90%	94%	91%
Tackles	Tackles Attempted	40	99	139
	Made	36	90	126
	Missed	4	9	13
	Made %	90%	91%	91%
Lineouts	Ball Thrown In	3	2	5
	Won	3	2	5
	Lost	0	0	0
	Won %	100%	100%	100%
Scrums	Ball Fed	4	3	7
	Won	4	3	7
	Lost	0	0	0
	Won %	100%	100%	100%
Penalties		5	1	6
Free Kicks		1	0	1
Kicks in General Play		16	26	42
Ball Carries		45	23	68
Dropped Ball		4	3	7
Poor Passes		2	3	5
Line Breaks		8	2	10
Tries		3	1	4
Conversions	Attempts	3	1	4
	Successful	1	1	2
	Success %	33%	100%	50%
Penalty Goals	Attempts	2	1	3
	Successful	2	1	3
	Success %	100%	100%	100%
Field Goals	Attempts	0	1	1
	Successful	0	0	0
	Success %	0%	0%	0%
Score		23	10	33

Here’s the summary of the Welsh stats:

Wales		1st Half	2nd Half	Match
Breakdowns	Ball Taken In	32	75	107
	Retained	27	68	95
	Turnover	5	7	12
	Retained %	84%	91%	89%
Lineouts	Ball Thrown In	8	11	19
	Won	8	9	17
	Lost	0	2	2
	Won %	100%	82%	89%
Scrums	Ball Fed	5	5	10
	Won	3	4	7
	Lost	2	1	3
	Won %	60%	80%	70%
Penalties		6	7	13
Free Kicks		0	0	0
Kicks in General Play		9	12	21
Line Breaks		2	3	5
Tries		0	0	0
Conversions	Attempts	0	0	0
	Successful	0	0	0
	Success %	0%	0%	0%
Penalty Goals	Attempts	4	2	6
	Successful	4	0	4
	Success %	100%	0%	67%
Field Goals	Attempts	0	0	0
	Successful	0	0	0
	Success %	0%	0%	0%
Score		12	0	12

Here’s a look at the stats for the individual Wallabies.  You can see that Cooper’s still missing too many tackles.  The pleasing aspect is how the workload was shared around.

Player Statistics	Carries	Tackles	Missed Tackles	Line Breaks
Ben Robinson	2	13	–	1
Steven Moore	7	6	1	–
Ben Alexander	3	5	–	2
James Horwill	2	11	–	–
Dean Mumm	1	7	–	–
Rocky Elsom	5	9	–	1
David Pocock	2	5	–	–
Wycliff Palu	4	5	1	–
Will Genia	6	9	1	1
Matt Giteau	6	7	1	1
Drew Mitchell	5	2	–	1
Quade Cooper	4	11	5	–
Digby Ioane	6	10	1	–
Peter Hynes	5	5	1	2
Adam Ashley-Cooper	4	2	–	1
Tatafu Polota-Nau	4	3	–	–
Matt Dunning	–	2	–	–
Mark Chisolm	–	3	1	–
George Smith	2	8	–	–
Luke Burgess	–	–	–	–
James O’Connor	–	2	1	–
Kurtley Beale	–	1	–	–
Total	68	126	13	10