6N, Week 4 - Stats
Two close encounters and a surprise for all but those who had kept faith, and there the score flattered the losers as England came back strongly from defeat in Dublin.
Here we give statistics, mostly concerned with getting and using the ball. You can see who has scored the most tries and who has conceded the most penalties in the Six Nations this season.
We shall also deal with the time matter in Rome, other incidents from the three matches and out scrum report.
Soundsure have again provided much of the statistical information.
Sanctionary Cards
There was just one this weekend – Nathan Hines of Scotland. While he was absent Scotland scored three points, Ireland none!
Recipients
Marco Bortolami (Italy) – tackle law infringement
Rhys Thomas (Wales) – tackle law infringement
Simon Taylor (Scotland) – tackle law infringement
Gonzalo Canale (Italy) – tackle law infringement
Danny Grewcock (England) – tackle law infringement
Nathan Hines (Scotland) – tackle 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
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
* = points conceded
(i) Scotland vs Ireland
Total number of penalties: 19
Scotland: 11
Ireland: 8
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Scotland:
Tackle/ruck: 10 (Euan Murray, Brown* 2, Hines 2, Paterson Scott Murray*, Dewey, Jacobsen*, Lawson)
Off-side: 1 (Taylor*)
Ireland:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Easterby*, O’Connell*, Wallace*)
Off-side: 3 (O’Connell, O’Driscoll*, Stringer*)
Scrum: 1 (Hayes*)
Discipline: 1 (O’Driscoll – fighting)
Ireland missed two penalty kicks at goal.
(ii) Italy vs Wales
Total number of penalties: 22
Italy: 11
Wales: 11
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Italy:
Tackle/ruck: 6 (Zanini* 2, Dellape, Zaffiri*, Staibano 2)
Scrum: 1 (Lo Cicero)
Discipline: 4 (Zanini – obstruction; Bortolami – air tackle; Mauro Bergamasco – man without ball; Nieto – obstruction)
Wales:
Tackle/Ruck: 5 (Horsman* 2, Rees* 2, Ryan Jones )
Off-side: 1 (Jonathan Thomas*)
Scrum: 2 (Rees & Jenkins, Jenkins & Horsman)
Discipline: 3 (Stephen Jones – obstruction; Ryan Jones – collapsing maul; Gough – obstruction)
Italy missed a penalty kick at goal.
(iii) England vs France
Total number of penalties: 19
England: 11
France: 8
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
England:
Tackle/ruck: 8 (Payne*, Easter 2, Flood*, Lewsey, Rees*, Palmer)
Discipline: 3 (Corry – stamping, Ellis – late tackle, Tindall – man without the ball)
France:
Tackle/ruck: 5 (Betsen*, Yachvili, Chabal, Iba?ez, Clerc)
Off-side: 2 (Milloud*, Harinordoquy*)
Discipline: 1 (Bruno – collapsing maul)
England missed two penalty kicks at goal.
Tackles/Penalties
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties:
Scotland vs Ireland: 13/19 = 68%
Italy vs Wales: 11/22 = 50%
England vs France: 13/19 = 68%
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 Ireland
Scotland:
Line-outs: 9 (2 lost, 1 reset, 1 skew)
Scrums: 13 (4 reset, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1
Ireland:
Line-outs: 18 (1 lost, 1 skew, 1 quick)
Scrums: 7 (2 reset)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1
(ii) Italy vs Wales
Italy:
Line-outs: 12 (1 skew, 1 penalty)
Scrums: 9 (6 reset, 1 free kick, 1 penalty, 1 lost)
Free-kicks: 2 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 1
Wales:
Line-outs: 20 (4 lost)
Scrums: 8 (5 reset, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 2
(iii) England vs France
England:
Line-outs: 11 (1 lost, 2 quick)
Scrums: 10 (4 reset, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 0
France:
Line-outs: 11 (2 lost)
Scrums: 8 (1 reset)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 5
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Scotland vs Ireland: 75
Italy vs Wales: 88
England vs France: 70
Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:
Scotland vs Ireland: 195
Italy vs Wales: 150
England vs France: 181
Kicks per match
Scotland vs Ireland: 40
Scotland: 24
Ireland: 16
Italy vs Wales: 50
Italy: 27
Wales: 23
England vs France: 54
England: 28
France: 26
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 Ireland: 12 (4)
Italy vs Wales: 7 (3)
England vs France: 14 (3)
Hold-ups for injury:
Scotland vs Ireland: 4
Italy vs Wales: 11
England vs France: 5
Substitutions/replacements:
Scotland vs Ireland: 6
Italy vs Wales: 10
England vs France: 9
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
(i) Scotland vs Ireland:
Scotland: 0
Ireland: 1
(ii) Italy vs Wales:
Italy: 2
Wales: 2
(iii) England vs France:
England: 2
France: 0
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
England: 2/4
Scotland: 0/6
France: 0/6
Wales: 2/2
Ireland: 1/4
Italy: 2/3
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 7/25
In Week 1 the ratio was 14/13.
In Week 2 the ratio was 5/22.
In Week 3 the ratio was 16/17
Some Totals:
Penalties conceded per match:
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
Scotland vs Ireland: 11 + 8 = 19
Italy vs Wales: 11 + 11 = 22
England vs France: 11 + 8 = 19
Penalties conceded per country:
England: 12 + 6 + 13 + 11 = 42
France: 4 + 10 + 6 + 8 = 28
Ireland: 9 + 4 + 8 + 8 = 29
Italy: 5 + 5 + 20 + 11 = 41
Scotland: 8 + 7+ 10 + 11 = 36
Wales: 7 + 16 + 10 + 1 = 44
Tries scored per country:
England: 4 + 1 +1 + 2 = 8
France: 5 + 2 + 2 + 0 = 9
Ireland: 3 + 1 + 4 + 1 = 9
Italy: 0 + 1 + 4 + 2 = 7
Scotland: 2 + 0 + 2 + 0 = 4
Wales: 0 + 0 + 3+ 2 = 5
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
Scotland vs Ireland: 75
Italy vs Wales: 88
England vs France: 70
