Super Rugby Pacific Top 14 Whole career Tumua Manu takes it, 6–1 on categories Manu wins on metres. du Plessis’s case rests on missed tackles, but it isn’t enough to swing it. Whole career: Manu 96 matches, du Plessis 61 matches.
Manu averages 33.7 metres a match to du Plessis’ 16.2 — 2.1 times as many. Manu has 19 tries (one every 5 matches) to du Plessis’ 6 tries (one every 7.7 matches). Manu averages 1.0 points a match to du Plessis’ 0.6 (57% more). Best single match: Manu 2 tries, du Plessis 1. Winners’ edge: du Plessis’s teams won 61%, Manu’s teams won 49% of the matches they played. Longevity: Manu has 96 matches across 9 seasons, du Plessis 61 in 8 — the averages matter more than the totals here. Not every stat was recorded for every match (metres, tackles, clean breaks…): those averages use only the games that logged them. Tale of the tape Per game. Totals and best single game underneath.
0.2 19 total · best 2 Triesper game 0.1 6 total · best 1
33.7 2,291 total · best 98 Metresper game 16.2 535 total · best 58
4.8 329 total · best 15 Tacklesper game 4.8 158 total · best 14
1.0 95 total · best 10 Pointsper game 0.6 30 total · best 5
0.7 46 total · best 3 Clean breaksper game 0.5 17 total · best 3
1.5 105 total · best 8 Defenders beaten
Last 10 games Tries, oldest to newest.
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