6N, Week 1 - Stats
The 2007 Six Nations burst into full flower at the Millennium Stadium with a great contest between Wales and Ireland. In this section, as in the past, we give some match statistics.
We shall be doing several bits on the Laws this week for both Six Nations and Super 14. We started with a discussion of Jonny Wilkinson’s try. We shall look at other incidents and try an appraisal of the new procedure of scrum engagement.
We also have a fascinating touch incident from a Super 14 match in Durban to talk about.
There is a lot coming.
Soundsure are, as always, a tremendous help in compiling the statistics.
Cards
There were no sanctionary cards. In fact there did not look like being one, unlike what happened in the Super 14 where there was a yellow rash.
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised. In (i), for example, Wales were penalised 0 times, Italy 5 times.
? = points conceded
(i) Italy vs France
Total number of penalties: 9
Italy: 5
France: 4
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Italy:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Pez, Perugini, Parisse, Festuccia)
Off-side: 1 (Dellape*)
Scrum: 1 (Perugini*)
Discipline: 2 ( – pushing, Lo Cicero – not back 10)
France:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Heymans, Skrela*, Dominici)
Off-side: 1 (Betsen)
Italy missed two penalty kicks at goal.
(ii) England vs Scotland
Total number of penalties: 20
England: 12
Scotland: 8
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
England:
Tackle/ruck: 8 (Lewsey*, Chuter 2, Worsley, Rees, Vickery, White, Ellis)
Scrum: 1 (Vickery)
Off-side: 1 (Worsley*)
Discipline: 2 (Deacon – stamping, Corry – air tackle )
Scotland:
Tackle/Ruck: 5 (Lamont*, Paterson*, Hamilton*, Callam, Hogg)
Scrum: 2 (Kerr* 2)
Discipline: 1 (Brown – barging)
Scotland missed a penalty kick at goal.
(iii) Wales vs Ireland
Total number of penalties: 16
Wales: 7
Ireland: 9
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Wales:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Morgan, Alun Wyn Jones, Rhys Thomas)
Scrum: 1 (Jenkins & Rhys Thomas)
Discipline: 3 (Luscombe – man without ball, Horsman – collapsing maul, Ryan Jones – obstruction)
Ireland:
Tackle/ruck: 5 (Easterby* 2, Leamy 3)
Off-side: 2 (O’Gara*, Wallace)
Scrum: 1 (Hayes)
Discipline: 1 (O’Callaghan – collapsing maul)
Ireland 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:
Italy vs France: 7/9 = 78%
England vs Scotland: 13/20 = 65%
Wales vs Ireland: 8/16 = 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) Italy vs France
Italy:
Line-outs: 14 (1 quick)
Scrums: 4 (3 reset, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)
Drop-outs: 2
France:
Line-outs: 24 (6 lost, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 8 (2 reset,)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 2
(ii) England vs Scotland
England:
Line-outs: 14 (1 lost, 1 penalty)
Scrums: 7 (1 reset)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 2
Scotland:
Line-outs: 11 (1 lost, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 8 (5 reset, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 mark, 1 line-out)
Drop-outs: 0
(iii) Wales vs Ireland
Wales:
Line-outs: 19 (1 lost, 1 skew, 1 free kick, 1 quick)
Scrums: 9 (3 reset, 1 wheel)
Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)
Drop-outs: 1
Ireland:
Line-outs: 14 (2 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 12 (8 reset, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 2
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Italy vs France: 70
England vs Scotland: 70
Wales vs Ireland: 85
Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:
Italy vs France: 214
England vs Scotland: 165
Wales vs Ireland: 165
Kicks per match
Italy vs France: 75
Italy: 40
France: 35
England vs Scotland: 33
England: 17
Scotland: 16
This figure is abnormally low.
Wales vs Ireland: 67
Wales: 31
Ireland: 36
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.)
Italy vs France: 17 (9)
England vs Scotland: 8 (2)
Wales vs Ireland: 15 (4)
Hold-ups for injury:
Italy vs France: 13
England vs Scotland: 8
Wales vs Ireland: 7
Substitutions/replacements:
Italy vs France: 12
England vs Scotland: 13
Walesvs Ireland: 5
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
(i) Italy vs France:
Italy: 0
France: 5
(ii) England vs Scotland:
England: 4
Scotland: 2
(iii) Wales vs Ireland:
Wales: 0
Ireland: 3
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Wales: 0/3
Italy: 0/1
Ireland: 3/0
Scotland: 2/2
France: 5/2
England: 4/5
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 14/13.
Some Totals:
Penalties conceded:
Italy vs France: 5 + 4 = 9
England vs Scotland: 12 + 8 = 20
Wales vs Ireland: 7 + 9 = 16
Penalties conceded per country:
England: 12
France: 4
Ireland: 9
Italy: 5
Scotland: 8
Wales: 7
Tries scored per country:
England: 4
France: 5
Ireland: 3
Italy: 0
Scotland: 2
Wales: 0
