{"id":15600,"date":"2022-10-05T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/?p=15600"},"modified":"2022-10-05T17:44:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T04:44:01","slug":"wellington-v-counties-manukau-stat-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/2022\/10\/05\/wellington-v-counties-manukau-stat-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington v Counties Manukau Stat Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>With four tries in this match &#8211; all off the bench &#8211; Asafo Aumua has now scored 24 tries in 56 matches and has drawn level with fellow forward Murray Mexted who also scored 24 tries, in 111 matches. He still has a way to go though to reach the late Graham Williams&#8217; record for most tries by a forward: 54, in a Wellington record 173 appearances.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#wpls-logo-showcase-slider-1 .wpls-fix-box,\n\t\t\t#wpls-logo-showcase-slider-1 .wpls-fix-box img.wp-post-image{max-height:250px; }\n\t\t<\/style>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"wpls-wrap wpls-logo-showcase-slider-wrp wpls-logo-clearfix wpls-design-1 \" data-conf=\"{&quot;slides_column&quot;:4,&quot;slides_scroll&quot;:1,&quot;dots&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;arrows&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;autoplay_interval&quot;:3000,&quot;loop&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;rtl&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;speed&quot;:800,&quot;center_mode&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;lazyload&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpls-logo-showcase logo_showcase wpls-logo-slider  sliderimage_hide_border \" id=\"wpls-logo-showcase-slider-1\" >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wpls-logo-cnt\">\n\t<div class=\"wpls-fix-box\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.roblawmax.co.nz\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-post-image\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/rmax24.jpg?fit=220%2C120&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div><div class=\"wpls-logo-cnt\">\n\t<div class=\"wpls-fix-box\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.geeksonwheels.co.nz\/locations\/wellington-computer-repair\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-post-image\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/images.jpg?fit=296%2C170&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div><div class=\"wpls-logo-cnt\">\n\t<div class=\"wpls-fix-box\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/thecallcentre.co.nz\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-post-image\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/TCC-Logo-400x260-1.jpg?fit=400%2C260&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div><div class=\"wpls-logo-cnt\">\n\t<div class=\"wpls-fix-box\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.partnersfinance.co.nz\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-post-image\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/part2.jpg?fit=300%2C195&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Wellington Lions beat the Counties Manukau Steeler 64-31 in their National Provincial Championship ninth round meeting at Pukekohe on Sunday. Some facts and figures from the game below by Peter Marriott.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Round 9 v Counties Manukau: Won 64-31<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two sides have now met 36 times in National Provincial Matches (NPC). Wellington has won<br \/>\n22 of those matches and Counties Manukau 12. There have been two draws.<\/p>\n<p>They did not meet last year.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington scored 64 points in a match for the second time: on both occasions Counties Manukau<br \/>\nhas been on the receiving end. At Wellington in August 2008, the home side won 64-7.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington has exceeded 64 points on just four occasions: 74-20 against Bay of Plenty at Tauranga<br \/>\nin 2002, 73-28 against Taranaki at Wellington in 2004, 68-7 against Otago at Wellington in 2007 and<br \/>\n65-12 against Northland at Wellington in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington has now passed 50 points on 31 occasions and have never lost a match when scoring<br \/>\nthat many points.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington has conceded 31 points on 14 occasions but this is just their second win when that many<br \/>\npoints have been scored against them.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington&#8217;s score against Counties Manukau is their highest total against any side since beating<br \/>\nOtago 68-7 at Wellington in July 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington has won their last five matches in a row against Counties Manukau and that sequence<br \/>\nincludes a record-equalling four wins on the trot in Pukekohe.<\/p>\n<p>During the match, Wellington brought up 1,000 points against Counties Manukau. They are the ninth<br \/>\nunion to concede this number of points and the total now stands at 1,026.<\/p>\n<p>The match aggregate of 95 points is the highest ever between the two sides surpassing the 81 points<br \/>\naccumulated when Wellington won 62-19 at Pukekohe in 2009. Amazingly, the aggregate in 17 of<br \/>\nthe last 18 matches has topped 50 points, including the last 12 matches in succession.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington&#8217;s margin of victory in their last two matches against Counties Manukau has been 33 points.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington has passed 50 points in their last three matches in Pukekohe.<\/p>\n<p>Against Counties Manukau Wellington brought up 13,000 points in all NPC matches. The total now<br \/>\nstands at 13,020, which means after 485 competition matches, Wellington averages 26.8 points a<br \/>\nmatch.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington has won their last seven matches this year in succession. This last happened in 2017<br \/>\nwhen they actually won the last seven matches which included the Championship Final against Bay<br \/>\nof Plenty at Wellington in October of that year.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington&#8217;s 38 points (to 7) at halftime are the most they have scored against any side before the<br \/>\nbreak since they led Southland 40-0 at Wellington in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington scored 10 tries in a match for the third time. The previous two occasions were against<br \/>\nBay of Plenty at Tauranga in 2002 and against Taranaki at Wellington in 2004. The record for most<br \/>\ntries scored in a match is, however, 11 which Wellington has achieved twice: against Bay of Plenty<br \/>\nat Rotorua in 1977 and against North Auckland (now known as Northland) at Wellington in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington has now conceded a total of 601 tries in all of their away (242) matches. In 243 home<br \/>\nmatches they have conceded 588 tries.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions players wore white socks in support of the Breast Cancer Foundation of NZ. All the home<br \/>\nsides during Round 9 wore pink socks.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington retained the Jonah Tali Memorial Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Du&#8217;Plessis Kirifi appeared in his 50th match for Wellington and marked the occasion with his 11th<br \/>\ntry. Kirifi made his debut against Manawatu at Palmerston North on 20 August 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Asafo Aumua became just the fourth Wellington player to score four tries in a NPC match. Those<br \/>\nbefore him were Bernie Fraser against Canterbury at Wellington in 1978, Mike Clamp against<br \/>\nManawatu at Palmerston North in 1984 and Hosea Gear against Counties Manukau at Pukekohe<br \/>\nin 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Aumua is the only forward amongst those four players and it is the fifth time he has scored two or<br \/>\nmore tries in a match. The other occasions were three against Northland at Whangarei in 2016, two<br \/>\nagainst Taranaki at Wellington in 2017, two against Northland at Wellington in 2017 and two against<br \/>\nWaikato at Wellington in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>For the record Aumua is one of 97 different players who have scored two tries or more in a match.<br \/>\nHowever, his five examples have only been exceeded by six other players namely Bernie Fraser<br \/>\n(12 occasions), Mike Clamp (eight), Lome Fa&#8217;atau (seven), and Hosea Gear, Alapati Leiua and<br \/>\nTana Umaga (all with six).<\/p>\n<p>Xavier Numia was the only player to start in all 10 matches of regular play. Five others also played<br \/>\n10 times but some of their appearances were off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Numia was on the field for the most minutes (709) closely followed by Billy Proctor who played for<br \/>\n700 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Asafo Aumua was the top try scorer with five whilst Jackson Garden-Bachop was top point scorer<br \/>\nwith 53, closely followed by Aidan Morgan who racked up 51 points.<\/p>\n<p>Ioane Moananu became the first Counties Manukau forward to score two tries in a NPC match<br \/>\nagainst Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington ended the regular season at the top of the Odds Conference table and will meet Hawke&#8217;s<br \/>\nBay, who finished fourth, in the Quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#wpls-logo-showcase-slider-2 .wpls-fix-box,\n\t\t\t#wpls-logo-showcase-slider-2 .wpls-fix-box img.wp-post-image{max-height:250px; }\n\t\t<\/style>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"wpls-wrap wpls-logo-showcase-slider-wrp wpls-logo-clearfix wpls-design-1 \" data-conf=\"{&quot;slides_column&quot;:4,&quot;slides_scroll&quot;:1,&quot;dots&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;arrows&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;autoplay_interval&quot;:3000,&quot;loop&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;rtl&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;speed&quot;:800,&quot;center_mode&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;lazyload&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpls-logo-showcase logo_showcase wpls-logo-slider  sliderimage_hide_border \" id=\"wpls-logo-showcase-slider-2\" >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wpls-logo-cnt\">\n\t<div class=\"wpls-fix-box\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.roblawmax.co.nz\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-post-image\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/rmax24.jpg?fit=220%2C120&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div><div class=\"wpls-logo-cnt\">\n\t<div class=\"wpls-fix-box\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.geeksonwheels.co.nz\/locations\/wellington-computer-repair\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-post-image\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/images.jpg?fit=296%2C170&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div><div class=\"wpls-logo-cnt\">\n\t<div class=\"wpls-fix-box\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/thecallcentre.co.nz\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-post-image\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/TCC-Logo-400x260-1.jpg?fit=400%2C260&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div><div class=\"wpls-logo-cnt\">\n\t<div class=\"wpls-fix-box\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.partnersfinance.co.nz\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-post-image\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/part2.jpg?fit=300%2C195&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DF9jxFfAqz\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/2022\/10\/05\/wellington-v-counties-manukau-stat-attack\/\">Wellington v Counties Manukau Stat Attack<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Wellington v Counties Manukau Stat Attack&#8221; &#8212; ClubRugby.nz\" src=\"https:\/\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/2022\/10\/05\/wellington-v-counties-manukau-stat-attack\/embed\/#?secret=MhB4tK4U2S#?secret=DF9jxFfAqz\" data-secret=\"DF9jxFfAqz\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With four tries in this match &#8211; all off the bench &#8211; Asafo Aumua has now scored 24 tries in 56 matches and has drawn level with fellow forward Murray Mexted who also scored 24 tries, in 111 matches. 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