2019 Rugby World Cup
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@Billy-Webb said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Some interesting info for those of you who like me, are getting impatient for this RWC to start...
30 World Cup Records: (as published by AFP news service)
Most titles won: New Zealand - three (1987, 2011, 2015)
Most points by a team in a match: 145, New Zealand 145 Japan 17 (1995)
Biggest winning margin: 142, Australia 142 Namibia 0 (2003)
Most tries in a match: 22, Australia 142 Namibia 0 (2003)
Most individual points in a match: 45, Simon Culhane (New Zealand 145 Japan 17, 1995)
Most overall points: 277, Jonny Wilkinson (England - 199, 2003, 2007, 2011)
Most points in one tournament: 126, Grant Fox (New Zealand 1987)
Most overall tries: 15, Jonah Lomu (New Zealand 1995, 1999), Bryan Habana (South Africa 2007, 2011, 2015)
Most tries in a match: 6, Marc Ellis (New Zealand v Japan 1995)
Most tries in one tournament: 8, Bryan Habana (South Africa 2007), Jonah Lomu (New Zealand 1999), Julian Savea (New Zealand 2015)
Most overall penalties: 58, Jonny Wilkinson (England)
Most penalties in a match: 8, Matt Burke (Australia v South Africa 1999), Gavin Hastings (Scotland v Tonga 1995), Thierry Lacroix (France v Ireland 1995), Gonzalo Quesada (Argentina v Samoa 1999)
Most penalties in one tournament: 31, Gonzalo Quesada (Argentina 1999)
Most overall conversions: 58, Dan Carter (New Zealand)
Most overall drop-goals: 14, Jonny Wilkinson (England 1999-2011)
Most drop-goals in one tournament: 8, Jonny Wilkinson (England 2003)
Most drop-goals in a match: 5, Jannie de Beer (South Africa v England 1999)
Most tackles: 225, Richie McCaw (New Zealand 2003-15)
Most appearances: 22, Jason Leonard (England 1991-2003), Richie McCaw (New Zealand 2003-15)
Oldest player to appear in a World Cup match: Diego Ormaechea, Uruguay - aged 40 years, 26 days (v South Africa 1999)
Oldest player to appear in a World Cup final: Brad Thorn, New Zealand - aged 36 years, 262 days (v France 2011)
Youngest player to appear in a World Cup match: Vasil Lobzhanidze, Georgia - aged 18 years, 340 days (v Tonga 2015)
Youngest player to appear in a World Cup final: Jonah Lomu, New Zealand - aged 20 years, 43 days (v South Africa 1995)
Youngest player to win a World Cup final: Francois Steyn, South Africa - aged 20 years, 159 days (v England 2007)
Highest attendance: 89 867 - Ireland v Romania, 2015 at Wembley Stadium, London
Most overall points scored: 2 302, New Zealand
Most overall tries scored: 311, New Zealand
Most overall penalties scored: 135, France
Most overall conversions scored: 226, New Zealand
Most overall tackles made: 4 020, Australia
One that came up last week on The Captain's Cup podcast on radiosport with Kirk was most team tries in one tournament. He wondered whether 87 was still the record. Would be interested in tracking that down.
Also, it woukd be interesting to compare 2nd and 3rd to 1st on some of those lists.
I looked at some records a few years ago, pre-2011, in a bid to convince myself that the ABs were actually still the best ... despite the record ... and even then it quite amazing how far ahead the ABs were in the matches won, point and try scoring records. And that was then.
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@Daffy-Jaffy said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Some interesting picks. Would be interesting if he picked again post world cup. Hooper over Savea is laughable.
Given I wouldn't even pick Crotty to make the AB XXIII ...
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@Daffy-Jaffy said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Some interesting picks. Would be interesting if he picked again post world cup. Hooper over Savea is laughable.
And no Itoje?
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@Billy-Webb said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@ACT-Crusader said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
One right out of fifteen, not bad for an Englishman.
I am almost too nervous to ask.... but ok, which one did he get right?
Come on Billy.
Which one is the Crusader ...
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@Daffy-Jaffy said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Saw these stats recently. In prep for the inevitable debate when Barrett misses a couple of kicks.
international kicking stats.
Barrett
2015- 55% 6 from 11
2016- 69% 38 from 55
2017- 80% 44 from 55
2018- 70% 35 from 40
2019- 81% 29 from 36Mo'unga
2018 85% 11 from 13
2019 83% 20 from 242018? 35 from 40 is 87%, unless it’s supposed to be 35 from 50 which gives the 70%
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so our RWC conversion success rate is 72.7%
Most overall tries scored: 311, New Zealand
Most overall conversions scored: 226, New Zealand
It doesnt really tell us what our overall % is thought, while you can work out the points scored from pens in RWC for NZ, you dont know how many were attempted/missed.
Although you would expect penalty success rate should be much higher than conversions given you dont always take them when offered.
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@booboo said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Daffy-Jaffy said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Some interesting picks. Would be interesting if he picked again post world cup. Hooper over Savea is laughable.
And no Itoje?
Ardie at 6 or 8 surely
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@Daffy-Jaffy said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Saw these stats recently. In prep for the inevitable debate when Barrett misses a couple of kicks.
international kicking stats.
Barrett
2015- 55% 6 from 11
2016- 69% 38 from 55
2017- 80% 44 from 55
2018- 70% 35 from 40
2019- 81% 29 from 36Mo'unga
2018 85% 11 from 13
2019 83% 20 from 24you can read many things into Stats, this is not necessarily about kicking ability but possibly more about how the game is being played - 2015/16 tries were predominantly being scored out wide hence more sideline conversion attempts, now more tries being scored closer into the posts hence better conversion rate
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@Nevorian said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@booboo said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Daffy-Jaffy said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Some interesting picks. Would be interesting if he picked again post world cup. Hooper over Savea is laughable.
And no Itoje?
Ardie at 6 or 8 surely
Too tall
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@Nevorian said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Daffy-Jaffy said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Saw these stats recently. In prep for the inevitable debate when Barrett misses a couple of kicks.
international kicking stats.
Barrett
2015- 55% 6 from 11
2016- 69% 38 from 55
2017- 80% 44 from 55
2018- 70% 35 from 40
2019- 81% 29 from 36Mo'unga
2018 85% 11 from 13
2019 83% 20 from 24you can read many things into Stats, this is not necessarily about kicking ability but possibly more about how the game is being played - 2015/16 tries were predominantly being scored out wide hence more sideline conversion attempts, now more tries being scored closer into the posts hence better conversion rate
Or....he became a better kicker
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@Bones said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Nevorian said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Daffy-Jaffy said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Saw these stats recently. In prep for the inevitable debate when Barrett misses a couple of kicks.
international kicking stats.
Barrett
2015- 55% 6 from 11
2016- 69% 38 from 55
2017- 80% 44 from 55
2018- 70% 35 from 40
2019- 81% 29 from 36Mo'unga
2018 85% 11 from 13
2019 83% 20 from 24you can read many things into Stats, this is not necessarily about kicking ability but possibly more about how the game is being played - 2015/16 tries were predominantly being scored out wide hence more sideline conversion attempts, now more tries being scored closer into the posts hence better conversion rate
Or....he became a better kicker
yep hence why I said many things.
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@Smuts said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Anyone else going to the ABs v Boks game? Be good to put some faces to the fern over some lubrications before the match. First round’s on me.
Code for “I’ve got a ticket to the game, suckers”
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@Smuts said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Guilty.
But its been over a decade since I last watched the boks live and two decades since I last got to watch them square up to your bastards. So I feel no shame.
The RWC games I have been to are always a step up in intensity from normal tests. And the boks are a big chance. It will be amazing. Hopefully ultimately disappointing, but amazing 😉
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@canefan agree (apart from that bit about disappointment).
Last time I got to watch the boks go at the baddies in the flesh, Goldie and Bunce ruined it. But that game was incredible. Obviously I’d be much happier if we get up, but nothing in sport compares to a strong bok team facing the ABs in a World Cup.
