6N, Week 5, Part 1

Stats

Suddenly the Six Nations with all its hurly burly, is done. Anticlimax is upon is. Just to mop up, we shall give the stats, some of which add up to totals for the Six Nations on 2006.

For this series we give the number of tackles/rucks/mauls in each match and the number of kicks by team. SoundSure have provided these. SoundSure also provided the stats on advantage.

We have already discussed the three Irish tries and the part the touch-line played. To refresh, click here.

Later in the week we shall discuss some other incidents from the last round.

Cards

There were two cards at Twickenham – one for Simon Shaw of England and one for Simon Easterby of Ireland. There was one yellow card in Cardiff – for Raphaël Ibañez of France.

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 Scotland

Total number of penalties: 18

Italy: 10
Scotland: 8

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

Italy:

Tackle/ruck: 6 (Perugini, Parisse, Griffen, Pez, Galon, Lo Cicero*)
Off-side: 2 (Sole, Perugini)
Discipline: 2 (Dellapè – pushing, Lo Cicero – not back 10)
 
Scotland:

Tackle/ruck: 5 (Hines, Blair, Douglas, Kerr, Smith)
Scrum: 2 (Kerr* 2)
Discipline: 1 (Murray – obstruction)

Neither side missed a penalty kick at goal

(ii) Wales vs France

Total number of penalties: 16

Wales: 9
France: 7

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

Wales:
Tackle/ruck: 6 (Gough*, Adam Jones 2, Popham*, Martyn Williams, Owen)
Discipline: 3 (Martyn Williams 2 – man without ball & obstruction, Gough – air tackle, )

France:
Tackle/Ruck: 3 (Yachvili, Marconnet 2)
Off-side: 1 (Michalak)
Discipline: 3 (Pelous – man without ball, De Villiers – high, Ibañez – man without ball)

France missed a penalty kick at goal.

(iii) England vs Ireland

Total number of penalties: 24

England: 12
Ireland: 12

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

England:
Tackle/ruck: 6 (Ellis, Sheridan, Shaw* 2, Moody* 2)
Scrum: 1 (Moody)
Off-side: 2 (Corry, Noon)
Discipline: 3 (Worsley* – collapsed maul, Moody – air tackle, Ellis – not 10)

Ireland:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Horgan, Wallace 2, O'Connor*)
Off-side: 2 (O'Kelly*, O'Gara)
Scrum: 3 (Horan 3)
Discipline: 3 (O'Kelly – high tackle, Easterby** – obstruction & not back 10)

England and Ireland each 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:

Ireland vs Italy: 13/21 = 63%
England vs Wales: 12/19 = 63%
Scotland vs France: 7/14 = 50%
France vs Ireland: 10/17 = 57%
Italy vs England: 16/19 = 89%
Wales vs Scotland: 9/21 = 43%
France vs Italy: 9/18 = 50%
Scotland vs England: 16/26 = 62%
Ireland vs Wales: 10/28 = 36%
Wales vs Italy: 7/14 = 50%
Ireland vs Scotland: 7/14 = 50%
France vs England: 8/19 = 42%
Italy vs Scotland: 11/18 = 61%
Wales vs France:  9/16 = 56%
England vs Ireland: 10/24 = 42%

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. In (i), for example, Italy threw into 19 line-outs, Scotland into 9 scrums. A line-out lost is recorded and a skew throw-in. At scrums, resets, loss and sanctions are recorded.

A skew throw is on the way to joining a skew throw into a scrum. There were no skew throws into scrums and just one into a line-out – not actually a line-out for it was a quick throw.

(i) Italy vs Scotland

Italy:

Line-outs: 19 (1 quick)
Scrums: 9 (4 reset, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 3

Scotland:

Line-outs: 26 (1 lost, 1 skew, 1 free kick, 1 quick, 1 penalty)
Scrums: 9 (4 reset,)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 mark, 1 line-out)
Drop-outs: 1

(ii) Wales vs France

Wales:
Line-outs: 20 (2 lost, 1 reset, 1 quick)
Scrums: 7 (1 reset)
Free-kicks: 2 (marks)
Drop-outs: 2
 
France:

Line-outs: 20 (2 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 6
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 2

(iii) England vs Ireland

England:

Line-outs: 17 (1 quick)
Scrums: 9 (5 reset, 2 penalties, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 scrum, 1 line-out)
Drop-outs: 4

Ireland:
Line-outs: 14 (2 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 5 (6 reset, 2 free kicks, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 2 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 1

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

Italy vs Scotland: 96
Wales vs France: 77
England vs Ireland: 89

Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:

Italy vs Scotland: 143
Wales vs France: 157
England vs Ireland: 182

Kicks per match

Italy vs Scotland: 74

Italy: 40
Scotland: 34

Wales vs France: 83

Wales: 37
France: 46

England vs Ireland: 43

England: 18
Ireland: 24

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 Scotland: 17 (10)
Wales vs France: 15 (8)
England vs Ireland: 16 (8)

Hold-ups for injury:

Italy vs Scotland: 13
Wales vs France: 8
England vs Ireland: 10

Substitutions/replacements:

Italy vs Scotland: 11
Wales vs France:  9
England vs Ireland: 7

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

(i) Italy vs Scotland:

Italy: 1
Scotland: 1

(ii) Wales vs France:

Wales: 1
France: 2

(iii) England vs Ireland:

England: 2
France: 3

Tries/penalties scored

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

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

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 10/15.

Some Totals:

Penalties conceded:

Ireland vs Italy: 9 + 12 = 21
England vs Wales: 8 + 11 = 19
Scotland vs France: 6 + 8 = 14
France vs Ireland: 13 + 4 = 17
Italy vs England: 8 + 11 = 19
Wales vs Scotland: 13 + 8 = 21
France vs Italy: 7 + 11 = 18
Scotland vs England: 14 + 12 = 26
Ireland vs Wales: 9 + 19 = 28
Wales vs Italy: 9 + 5 = 14
Ireland vs Scotland: 5 + 9 = 14
France vs England: 9 + 10 = 19
Italy vs Scotland: 10 + 8 = 18
Wales vs France: 9 + 7 = 16
England vs Ireland, 12 + 12 = 24

Penalties conceded per country:

England: 8 + 11 + 12 + 10 + 12 = 53
France: 8 + 13 + 7 + 9 + 7 = 44
Ireland: 9 + 4 + 9 + 5 + 12 = 39
Italy: 12 + 8 + 11 + 5 + 10 = 46
Scotland: 6 + 8 + 14 + 9 + 8 = 45
Wales: 11 + 13 + 19 + 9 + 9 = 61

Tries scored per country:

England: 6 + 4 + 0 + 0 + 2 = 12
France: 2 + 6 + 5 + 3 + 2 = 18
Ireland: 2 + 4 + 3 + 0 + 3 = 12
Italy: 1 + 1 + 0 + 2 + 1 = 5
Scotland: 2 + 2 + 0 + 0 + 1 = 5
Wales: 1 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 1 = 9

Stoppages by match:

Ireland vs Italy: 88
England vs Wales: 75
Scotland vs France: 77
France vs Ireland: 73
Italy vs England: 86
Wales vs Scotland: 95
France vs Italy: 82
Scotland vs England: 88
Ireland vs Wales: 85
Wales vs Italy: 88
Ireland vs Scotland: 87
France vs England: 77
Italy vs Scotland: 96
Wales vs France: 77
England vs Ireland: 89