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
