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Stats: Australia vs France

By Paul Dobson
Sunday 6 Jul 2008

Australia played France in Brisbane, the last of the major mid-winter tour matches from the north. It produced Australia’s biggest win ever over France. We give some statistice.

Mid-winter Sanctions

The only recipient this week was Benjamin Boyet of France for a dangerous tackle of the spear variety. But the match also produced citings with suspension. Renaud Boyoud and Imanol Boyoud of France were suspended for three weeks each.

Recipients on mid-winter tours

Yellow cards:

CJ van der Linde (South Africa) – fighting
Richard Hibbard (Wales) – fighting
Andy Sheridan (England) – tackle infringement
Mike Tindall (England) – tackle infringement
Felipe Contepomi (Argentina) – fighting
Mike Tindall (England) – tackle infringement
Carlo Del Fava (Italy) – dangerous tackle
Juan Gómez (Argentina) – fighting
Rodrigo Roncero (Argentina) – fighting
Benjamin Boyet (France) – dangerous tackle

Cited and Suspended

Imanol Harinordoquy (France) – punching
Renaud Boyoud (France) – punching

Penalties conceded

In this section we record the times a team was penalised.

Australia vs France

Total number of penalties: 18

Australia: 6
France: 12

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Australia:

Tackle/ruck: 3 (Baxter, Hoiles, Hugh McMeniman)
Off-side: 2 (Mumm*, Waugh)
Discipline: 1 (Horwill – fighting)

France:

Tackle/ruck: 7 (Harinordoquy* 2, Palisson*, Ouedraogo*, Tillous-Borde, Chabal, Picamoles)
Off-side: 1 (Ouedraogo*)
Scrum: 1 (Lecouls)
Discipline: 3 (Chabal – collapsing maul; Boyet – dangerous tackle; Chabal – +10)

Neither side missed a penalty kick at goal.

Tackles/Penalties

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties:

Australia vs France: 10/18

Getting possession – line-outs, scrums, free-kicks, drop-outs, turn-overs

In this section the figures represent the number of times you get to play with the ball.

Australia vs France

Australia:

Line-outs: 10
Scrums: 9 (2 resets, 1 collapse, 1 lost, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 2 (marks)
Drop-outs: 0

France:

Line-outs: 11 (1 lost)
Scrums: 15 (4 reset, 4 collapses, 2 lost)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 0

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):

Australia vs France: 72

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Australia vs France: 5

Australia: 4
France: 1

Tries/penalties scored

This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:

Australia: 4/4
France: 1/1

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 5/5

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