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6N, Week 3 - Stats

There were three matches which were so exciting on the weekend – Wales ahead early against France who came back, Italy ahead ridiculously early against Scotland who did not come back and all that rain and emotion in Dublin.

What a day Saturday was!

Soundsure have again provided much of the statistical information.

Sanctionary Cards

There were three this weekend – two in Edinburgh and one in Dublin – Simon Taylor, Gonzalo Canale and Danny Grewcock.

Gonzalo Canale was sent to the sin bin with less than a minute remaining but in Dublin Ireland scored 14 points while Danny Grewcock was absent.

Recipients

Marco Bortolami (Italy) – tackle law infringement
Rhys Thomas (England) – tackle law infringement

Simon Taylor (Scotland) – tackle law infringement
Gonzalo Canale (Italy) – tackle law infringement
Danny Grewcock (England) – tackle law infringement

Penalties conceded

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

* = points conceded

(i) Scotland vs Italy

Total number of penalties: 30

Scotland: 10
Italy: 20

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

Scotland:

Tackle/ruck: 5 (Taylor*, Kerr, Paterson, Lamont, Hines)
Off-side: 1 (Di Rollo)
Scrum: 3 (Kerr, Euan Murray, Jacobsen*)
Discipline: 1 (Lamont* – dissent)

Italy:

Tackle/ruck: 11 (Bortolami, Scanavacca 3, Mauro Bergamasco 2, Troncon*, Nieto, Mirco Bergamasco 2, Zanni)
Off-side: 4 (Festuccia, Bortolami 2, Zanni)
Scrum: 1 (Lo Cicero)
Discipline: 4 (Parisse – fighting, Undetermined – collapsing maul, Perugini – stamping, Canale – not 10)

Neither side missed a penalty kick at goal.

(ii) Ireland vs England

Total number of penalties: 20

Ireland: 8
England: 12

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

Ireland:

Tackle/ruck: 3 (Easterby, Leamy*, David Wallace)
Off-side: 1 (Easterby*)
Scrum: 2 (Horan, Simon Best)
Discipline: 2 (O’Connell – elbow in face, O’Connell – obstruction)

England:

Tackle/Ruck: 6 (Ellis*, Farrell*, Corry, Grewcock, Worsley, Tindall )
Off-side: 1 (Chuter)
Scrum: 1 (Vickery*)
Discipline: 3 (Corry* – air tackle, Lund – air tackle, White – stamping)

England missed a penalty kick at goal.

(iii) France vs Wales

Total number of penalties: 16

France: 6
Wales: 10

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

France:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Mignoni 2, Vermeulen 2)
Scrum: 1 (Olivier Milloud)
Discipline: 1 (Betsen – high tackle)

Wales:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Alun Wyn Jones** 2, Shane Williams*, Ryan Jones*)
Off-side: 3 (Horsman, Gough and others, Shane Williams)
Discipline: 3 (Horsman – air tackle, Alun Wyn Jones – air tackle, Popham – high tackle)

France missed a penalty kick at goal, Wales three.

Tackles/Penalties

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

Scotland vs Italy: 16/30 = 53%
Ireland vs England: 9/20 = 45%
France vs Wales: 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) Scotland vs Italy

Scotland:

Line-outs: 27 (2 lost, 1 reset, 1 penalty)
Scrums: 9 (2 reset, 1 lost, 1 free kick, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 0

Italy:

Line-outs: 15 (5 lost)
Scrums: 9 (6 reset, 3 penalties, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 0

(ii) Ireland vs England

Ireland:

Line-outs: 15 (1 lost, 1 quick, 1 penalty)
Scrums: 9 (2 reset)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 1

England:

Line-outs: 13 (3 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 9 (8 reset, 2 penalties, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 2 (marks)
Drop-outs: 1

(iii) France vs Wales

France:

Line-outs: 18 (1 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 6 (2 reset, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 scrum, 1 +10)
Drop-outs: 2

Wales:

Line-outs: 15 (1 skew, 1 reset)
Scrums: 5 (1 reset)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1

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

Scotland vs Italy: 100
Ireland vs England: 81
France vs Wales: 68

Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:

Scotland vs Italy: 195
Ireland vs England: 150
France vs Wales: 181

Kicks per match

Scotland vs Italy: 47

Scotland: 15
Italy: 32

Ireland vs England: 58

Ireland: 32
England: 26

France vs Wales: 59

France: 28
Wales: 31

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.)

Scotland vs Italy: 23 (3)
Ireland vs England: 15 (6)
France vs Wales: 16 (4)

Hold-ups for injury:

Scotland vs Italy: 13
Ireland vs England: 5
France vs Wales: 7

Substitutions/replacements:

Scotland vs Italy: 8
Ireland vs England: 9
France vs Wales: 9

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

(i) Scotland vs Italy:

Scotland: 2
Italy: 4

(ii) Ireland vs England:

Ireland: 4
England: 1

(iii) France vs Wales:

France: 12
Wales: 3

Tries/penalties scored

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

France: 2/6
Scotland: 2/1
Wales: 3/0
England: 1/2
Italy: 4/3
Ireland: 4/5

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 16/17

In Week 1 the ratio was 14/13.
In Week 2 the ratio was 5/22.

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

Scotland vs Italy: 10 + 20 = 30
Ireland vs England: 8 + 13 – 21
France vs Wales: 6 + 10 = 16

Penalties conceded per country:

England: 12 + 6 + 13 = 31
France: 4 + 10 + 6 = 20
Ireland: 9 + 4 + 8 = 21
Italy: 5 + 5 + 20 = 30
Scotland: 8 + 7+ 10 = 25
Wales: 7 + 16 + 10 = 33

Tries scored per country:

England: 4 + 1 +1 = 6
France: 5 + 2 + 2 = 9
Ireland: 3 + 1 + 4 = 8
Italy: 0 + 1 + 4 = 5
Scotland: 2 + 0 + 2 = 4
Wales: 0 + 0 + 3 = 3

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

Scotland vs Italy: 100
Ireland vs England: 81
France vs Wales: 68

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