6N, Week 2 - Stats
Week 2 of the Six Nations produced a thriller at Croke Park in Dublin. Here we give some statistics for that match and the matches at Twickenham and Murrayfield.
We have already given the stats for the Super 14 and later in the week will be talking about laws relating to incidents in those two competitions.
We shall also give our scrum report and shall be discussing the matter of advantage.
Soundsure have again provided much of the statistical information.
Sanctionary Cards
There was none in the first week but two this week.
Recipients
Marco Bortolami (Italy) – law infringement
Rhys Thomas (Wales) – law infringement
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) England vs Italy
Total number of penalties: 19
England: 6
Italy: 13
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
England:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Lund, Vickery, Ellis)
Off-side: 1 (Corry)
Scrum: 1 (Vickery)
Discipline: 1 (Chuter – shoulder)
Italy:
Tackle/ruck: 9 (Dellape* 3, Robertson*, Scanavacca 2, Bortolami, Perugini* 2)
Off-side: 2 (Zaffiri, Sole*)
Scrum: 1 (Castrogiovanni)
Discipline: 1 (Bortolami – barging in line-out)
Italy missed two penalty kicks at goal.
(ii) Scotland vs Wales
Total number of penalties: 23
Scotland: 7
Wales: 15
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Scotland:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Southwell*, Hall, 7*)
Scrum: 1 (Euan Murray)
Discipline: 3 (Scott Murray – air tackle, 7 – crossing, 12* – man without ball)
Wales:
Tackle/Ruck: 7 (Wyn Jones* 2, Ryan Jones* 2, Rhys Thomas** 3, )
Off-side: 5 (Duncan Jones** 2, Adam Jones, Popham, Peel)
Scrum: 1 (Jenkins)
Discipline: 2 (Wyn Jones – obstruction, Sweeney* – late))
Neither side missed a penalty kick at goal.
(iii) Ireland vs France
Total number of penalties: 14
Ireland: 4
France: 10
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Ireland:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Leamy*, Rory Best, Boss)
Discipline: 3 (Rory Best – man without ball)
France:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Skrela*, Harinordoquy* 2)
Off-side: 1 (Dominici*)
Discipline: 5 (Chabal man without ball, Nallet – obstruction, Chabal – high tackle, Undetermined – air tackle, Betsen* – collapsing maul)
France 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:
England vs Italy: 12/19 = 63%
Scotland vs Wales: 10/23 = 43%
Ireland vs France: 7/14 = 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) England vs Italy
England:
Line-outs: 15 (1 skew)
Scrums: 9 (2 reset, 1 wheel, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 3 (marks)
Drop-outs: 5
Italy:
Line-outs: 18 (1 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 8 (2 reset,)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 1
(ii) Scotland vs Wales
Scotland:
Line-outs: 12
Scrums: 11 (3 reset, 1 penalty, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 2 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 0
Wales:
Line-outs: 18 (3 lost, 1 penalty, 1 skew, 1 quick)
Scrums: 7 (3 reset, 1 lost, 2 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 2
(iii) Ireland vs France
Ireland:
Line-outs: 20 (1 lost, 1 penalty)
Scrums: 8 (5 reset, 1 lost, 2 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 1
France:
Line-outs: 12 (3 quick)
Scrums: 10 (1 wheel)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 1
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
England vs Italy: 81
Scotland vs Wales: 82
Ireland vs France: 73
Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:
England vs Italy: 158
Scotland vs Wales: 196
Ireland vs France: 167
Kicks per match
England vs Italy: 69
England: 30
Italy: 39
Scotland vs Wales: 48
Scotland: 27
Wales: 21
Ireland vs France: 73
Ireland: 34
France: 39
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.)
England vs Italy: 11 (3)
Scotland vs Wales: 16 (5)
Ireland vs France: 18 (7)
Hold-ups for injury:
England vs Italy: 13
Scotland vs Wales: 5
Ireland vs France: 11
Substitutions/replacements:
England vs Italy: 10
Scotland vs Wales: 13
Ireland vs France: 8
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
(i) England vs Italy:
England: 1
Italy: 1
(ii) Scotland vs Wales:
Scotland: 0
Wales: 0
(iii) Ireland vs France:
Ireland: 1
France: 2
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Ireland: 1/5
England: 1/5
France: 2/2
Wales: 0/3
Italy: 1/0
Scotland: 0/7
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 5/22
This is a big change from Week 1 when the ratio was 14/13.
Some Totals:
Penalties conceded:
Italy vs France: 5 + 4 = 9
England vs Scotland: 12 + 8 = 20
Wales vs Ireland: 7 + 9 = 16
England vs Italy: 6 + 13 = 19
Scotland vs Wales: 7 + 16 = 23
Ireland vs France: 4 + 10 =14
Penalties conceded per country:
England: 12 + 6 = 18
France: 4 + 10 = 14
Ireland: 9 + 4 = 13
Italy: 5 + 5 = 10
Scotland: 8 + 7 = 15
Wales: 7 + 16 = 23
Tries scored per country:
England: 4 + 1 = 5
France: 5 + 2 = 7
Ireland: 3 + 1 = 4
Italy: 0 + 1 = 1
Scotland: 2 + 0 = 2
Wales: 0 + 0 = 0
Stoppages per match:
Italy vs France: 70
England vs Scotland: 70
Wales vs Ireland: 85
England vs Italy: 81
Scotland vs Wales: 82
Ireland vs France: 73
