With heavier penalties for "Clanger kicks" -4 to -8, and "Clanger handballs" -4 to -6, I feel it is important to understand precisely how Champion Data define clangers.
For example, a defender under pressure gets a kick (say 40m) towards a pack outside the 50m line, the ball takes a strange bounce and ends up being a turn-over. A forward, 15m out, straight in front, shanks the kick and scores a point. Are these examples considered as "Clangers" ???
As I understand it, a kick to a contest that gets turned over after the contest is not a clanger. But a kick/handpass directly to the opposition is a clanger. Out-On-the-Full kicks I believe also counts as clangers.
Yeah I think Jason is right, and also that neither example above are clangers. First example if under 40 metres will get 0 for being considered short and ineffective, but if over 40 metres coming out of defense to a contest it's considered effective and will score 4 points. A behind, I think, gets 1 point no matter the kick Edit: also the contest factors in as if the player they kick to is deemed to be put under undue pressure by the kick or disadvantaged by it they deduct from the points it scores