Some Six Nations Stats - Week 3
Big wins for Wales and Ireland and a tough victory for England in Paris – their second win there in a few months and again a surprise but again well earned. We give some statistics from the three matches.
We shall also discuss some incidents from the match in our law discussion.
We shall be doing the same for the Super 14.
Sanctions
There was one this weekend – Mirco Bergamasco for an infringement at a tackle.
Mauro Bergamasco was cited and suspended for 13 weeks when he was found guilty of deliberately putting a finger in the right eye of Lee Byrne of Wales.
Yellow cards so far:
Santiago Dellapè (Italy) – punching
Simon Easterby (Ireland) – tackle infringement, his fourth in the match
Nathan Hines (Scotland) – striking an opponent
Mirco Bergamasco (Italy) – tackle infringement
Citing and Suspension:
Mauro Bergamasco (Italy)
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
* = points conceded
(i) Wales vs Italy
Total number of penalties: 19
Wales: 8
Italy: 11
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Wales:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Byrne, Rhys Thomas, Gethin Jenkins*)
Off-side: 1 (Jonathan Thomas)
Scrum: 1 (Rhys Thomas)
Discipline: 3 (Mark Jones – man without ball; Evans – late tackle; Evans – late obstruction)
Italy:
Tackle/ruck: 9 (Sole 2, Dellapè*, Mirco Bergamasco ** 2, Picone, Marcato, Perugini*, Castrogiovanni)
Off-side: 1 (Dellapè)
Discipline: 1 (Travagli – fighting)
Italy missed a penalty kick at goal.
(ii) Ireland vs Scotland
Total number of penalties: 14
Ireland: 9
Scotland: 5
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Ireland:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Mick O’Driscoll, Jackman*, Wallace*, Bowe)
Off-side: 2 (Reddam, Heaslip)
Discipline: 3 (Trimble – high tackle; Wallace – not 10; O’Callaghan – collapsing maul)
Scotland:
Tackle/Ruck: 3 (Murray, Ford*, Strokosch)
Discipline: 2 (Brown – collapsing maul; Hines – punching)
Neither side missed a penalty kick at goal.
(iii) France vs England
Total number of penalties: 20
France: 11
England: 9
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
France:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Papé, Faure, Clerc, Picamoles)
Off-side: 1 (Dusautoir)
Scrum: 4 (Mas 2, Poux* 2)
Discipline: 5 (Nallet – line-out obstruction; Szarzewski – fighting)
England:
Tackle/ruck: 6 (Vickery, Shaw, Sackey, Lipman 2, Kay)
Off-side: 1 (Haskell)
Discipline: 3 (Regan – punching; Easter – late tackle)
France missed a penalty kick at goal, England two.
Tackles/Penalties
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties:
Wales vs Italy: 12/19 = 63%
Ireland vs Scotland: 7/14 = 50%
France vs England: 10/20 = 50%
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.
(i) Wales vs Italy
Wales:
Line-outs: 19 (4 lost, 1 reset, 1 skew)
Scrums: 5 (2 reset, 1 collapse)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 1
Italy:
Line-outs: 8 (1 lost)
Scrums: 8 (7 reset, 4 collapses, 1 penalty, 1 lost)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 0
(ii) Ireland vs Scotland
Ireland:
Line-outs: 13 (3 lost, 1 skew, 1 reset)
Scrums: 6 (2 reset, 2 collapses, 1 uncontested)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 0
Scotland:
Line-outs: 16 (2 lost, 2 skew , 1 free kick)
Scrums: 7 (3 reset, 2 collapses, 2 free kicks, 2 uncontested)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 line-out, 1 scrum)
Drop-outs: 0
(iii) France vs England
France:
Line-outs: 14 (1 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 9 (3 reset, 4 collapses, 1 free kick, 1 penalty, 1 lost)
Free-kicks: 2 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 2
England:
Line-outs: 18 (1 lost, 2 quick, 1 free kick, 1 penalty)
Scrums: 7 (6 reset, 4 collapses, 3 penalties)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 mark, 1 line-out)
Drop-outs: 2
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Wales vs Italy: 72
Ireland vs Scotland: 65
France vs England: 85
Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:
Wales vs Italy:
Ireland vs Scotland:
France vs England:
Kicks per match
Wales vs Italy: 64
Wales: 28
Italy: 33
Ireland vs Scotland: 48
Ireland: 28
Scotland: 20
France vs England: 35
France: 17
England: 18
Passes per match:
Wales vs Italy: 211
Wales: 140
Italy: 71
Ireland vs Scotland: 255
Ireland: 76
Scotland: 179
France vs England: 224
France: 142
England: 82
Advantage
Here we give the number of times in the match the referee allowed advantage. (The figure in brackets is the number times the advantage actually accrued.)
Wales vs Italy: 9 (2)
Ireland vs Scotland: 20 (8)
France vs England: 14 (3)
Hold-ups for injury:
Wales vs Italy: 7
Ireland vs Scotland: 4
France vs England: 2
Substitutions/replacements:
Wales vs Italy: 9
Ireland vs Scotland: 12
France vs England: 8
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
(i) Wales vs Italy: 6
Wales: 5
Italy: 1
(ii) Ireland vs Scotland: 6
Ireland: 5
Scotland: 1
(iii) France vs England: 3
France: 1
England: 2
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
France: 1/2
Wales: 5/4
England: 2/3
Scotland: 1/2
Italy: 1/1
Ireland: 5/1
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 15/13
In Week 1 the ratio was 14/13.
In Week 2 the ratio was 16/17
Some Totals
Tries per country
England: 1 + 2 + 2 = 5
France: 3 + 4 + 1 = 8
Ireland: 1 + 2 + 5 = 8
Italy: 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
Scotland: 0 + 0 + 1 = 1
Wales: 2 + 3 + 5 = 10
Penalties per country
England: 7 + 10 + 9 = 26
France: 7 + 8 + 11 = 26
Ireland: 11 + 1 + 9 = 21
Italy: 8 + 6 + 11 = 25
Scotland: 10 + 6 + 5 = 21
Wales: 7 + 10 + 8 = 25
Kicks per country
England: 33 + 25 + 18 = 76
France: 25 + 24 + 17 = 66
Ireland: 32 + 23 + 28 = 83
Italy: 33 + 24 + 33 = 90
Scotland: 23 + 31 20 = 74
Wales: 27 + 32 + 28 = 77
Passes per country
England: 97 + 83 = 180
France: 155 + 118 = 273
Ireland: 115 + 174 = 289
Italy: 106 + 158 = 264
Scotland: 130 + 41 = 171
Wales: 87 + 131 218
Stoppages per match (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Ireland vs Italy: 82
Scotland vs France: 70
England vs Wales: 64
Wales vs Scotland: 73
France vs Ireland: 68
Italy vs England: 78
Wales vs Italy: 72
`Ireland vs Scotland: 65
France vs England: 85
