RUGBY UNION

Australia v Japan - Round 1 - Saturday 8 September 2007

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The Score

Australia	Full Time	Japan
91	Time: 80.00	3
13 Nathan Sharpe 19m Rocky Elsom 24m Rocky Elsom 31m Rocky Elsom 41m Adam Ashley-Cooper 46m Chris Latham 53m Berrick Barnes 57m Drew Mitchell 59m George Smith 62m Drew Mitchell 66m Chris Latham 72m Berrick Barnes 75m Adam Freier 81m	TRIES Try Scorers	0
10/13 (77%) Matt Giteau 3/3 (100%) Stirling Mortlock 7/10 (70%)	CONVERSIONS Scorers	0
2/2 (100%) Stirling Mortlock 2/2 (100%)	PENALTY GOALS Scorers	1/1 (100%) Kusei Ono 1/1 (100%)
0	DROP GOALS	0
	SIN BINS
	SEND OFFS
66	RUCKS/MAULS	38
14	LINE BREAKS	0
23	OFFLOADS	1
5	SCRUM WINS	6
11	LINE OUTS WON	12
106	RUNS	44
23	KICKS	17
57	TACKLES MADE	90
15	TURNOVERS	21
7	PENALTIES CONCEDED	6
1	FREE KICKS CONCEDED	0
59%	POSSESSION	41%

Match Details

Venue: Stade Gerland	Start time: 3:45PM
Weather: Fine	Surface: Fine
Referee: Alan Lewis Touch Judges: David Pearson, Hugh Watkins Video Ref: Malcolm Changleng

Australia	V	Japan
2 1 1 1	KICKOFFS Short Long Regained	15 4 11 0
1 0	22m RESTARTS Regained	1 0
66 15 46 5	RUCKS/MAULS Quick Normal Slow	38 2 31 5
14 2	LINE BREAKS Created	0 0
23	OFFLOADS	1
59	HALFBACK PASSES	26
27	FIVE-EIGHTH PASSES	13
4 4 0	SCRUM FEEDS Won on Feed Lost on Feed	7 6 1
5 4 1 1	SCRUM WINS With Feed Against Feed Tight Heads	6 6 0 0
8 8 0 0	LINE OUTS THROWN Won On Throw Lost On Throw Not Straight	15 12 3 0
11 8 3	LINE OUTS WON On Throw Against Throw	12 12 0
106 (946m) 56 (624m) 17 (61m) 10 (52m) 7 (81m) 7 (87m) 2 (10m) 7 (31m)	RUNS (Metres) Runs Open Runs Tight Pick Drive Kick Returns Rolling Maul Halfback Runs Five-Eighth Runs	44 (175m) 21 (101m) 7 (22m) 6 (11m) 3 (12m) 2 (4m) 2 (3m) 3 (22m)
23 (851m) 4 7	KICKS (Metres) Halfback Kicks Five-Eighth Kicks	17 (502m) 4 6
57 (88%) 65 1 7	TACKLES MADE (%) Attempted Ineffective Missed	90 (53%) 170 25 55
15 12 3 0 0 0	TURNOVERS In General Play Ruck/Maul Lineout Scrum From Restart	21 5 10 3 1 2

Most Tackles	Most Offloads	Most Kicks	Most Runs	Most Metres	Most Line Breaks
Takamichi Sasaki 10	Rocky Elsom 6	Chris Latham 7	Rocky Elsom 13	Rocky Elsom 145m	Rocky Elsom 4

Australia	Pos	Mins	Runs (m)	Tack	Offl.	Kick	T.Ass.	L.Brk	Ruck	T/Ov.	Miss
Matt Dunning	LHP		2 (10m)	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Stephen Moore	HOOK		6 (21m)	1	1	0	0	0	5	0	0
Alistair Baxter	THP		2 (7m)	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Nathan Sharpe	LCK1		7 (41m)	3	2	0	1	2	4	0	1
Dan Vickerman	LCK2		8 (26m)	2	1	0	0	0	7	1	1
Rocky Elsom	BSFL		13 (145m)	9	6	0	0	4	5	0	0
George Smith	OSFL		8 (63m)	5	1	0	0	1	6	0	1
Wycliff Palu	NUM8		6 (77m)	4	1	0	0	1	4	0	0
George Gregan	HB		2 (24m)	3	1	4	1	1	1	0	0
Stephen Larkham	FIV8		4 (20m)	1	1	3	1	0	2	1	0
Lote Tuqiri	LWNG		7 (33m)	3	0	2	0	0	7	1	0
Matt Giteau	ICEN		6 (41m)	4	1	4	0	0	4	2	0
Stirling Mortlock	OCEN		3 (51m)	2	1	0	0	0	2	2	0
Adam Ashley-Cooper	RWNG		6 (77m)	0	0	1	0	0	5	0	0
Chris Latham	FBCK		6 (44m)	0	1	7	1	1	5	5	2
Adam Freier	RHKR		3 (9m)	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	1
Guy Shepherdson	RPRP		1 (1m)	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Hugh McMeniman	RLCK		1 (10m)	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Stephen Hoiles	RFL		0 (0m)	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Berrick Barnes	RHB		3 (43m)	4	1	2	0	0	2	1	0
Drew Mitchell	RBCK		4 (102m)	0	1	0	1	3	1	0	1
Mark Gerrard	RES1		1 (14m)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Japan	Pos	Mins	Runs (m)	Tack	Offl.	Kick	T.Ass.	L.Brk	Ruck	T/Ov.	Miss
Masahito Yamamoto	LHP		0 (0m)	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	6
Taku Inokuchi	HOOK		2 (1m)	6	0	0	0	0	2	3	2
Ryo Yamamura	THP		0 (0m)	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Takanori Kumagae	LCK1		1 (3m)	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	5
Luatangi Samurai Vatuvei	LCK2		3 (8m)	9	0	0	0	0	3	1	5
Yasunori Watanabe	BSFL		1 (7m)	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
Takamichi Sasaki	OSFL		0 (0m)	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Hajime Kiso	NUM8		7 (12m)	9	0	0	0	0	7	3	4
Yuki Yatomi	HB		2 (3m)	6	0	5	0	0	1	2	3
Kusei Ono	FIV8		3 (18m)	9	0	5	0	0	3	2	4
Hirotoki Onozawa	LWNG		7 (40m)	3	0	1	0	0	6	1	3
Nataniela Oto	ICEN		6 (24m)	9	0	0	0	0	5	1	6
Koji Taira	OCEN		4 (8m)	2	0	0	0	0	4	3	3
A Kitagawa	RWNG		2 (21m)	5	0	3	0	0	1	0	3
A Kisumi	FBCK		3 (26m)	3	1	3	0	0	2	1	1
Hitoshi Ono	RLCK		0 (0m)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hare Makiri	RFL		1 (0m)	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2007 10:35AM

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