6N, Week 5 - Stats

What a dramatic finish. Two TMO decisions right at the end of each match decided who would win the Six Nations Championship. Such drama!.

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 later deal with incidents from the three matches and our scrum report.

We hope to fill in some gaps soon.

Sanctionary Cards

There was just one this weekend and that was, embarrassingly, a case of mistaken identity.

Sean Lamont became his brother’s scapegoat when he was sent to the sin bin for a late tackle by his brother Rory. It’s so silly in this highly technological game. The TMO could see what had happened but was obliged to bite his tongue and remain as quiet as a mouse. It doesn’t make sense. The referee and the touch judge could also see the mistake on the big screen – too late for rectification, one presumes. It doesn’t make sense. No wonder Sean Lamont has appealed against the yellow card.

The totals tell us that Ireland scored most tries, Scotland and Wales fewest. England conceded most penalties, France fewest.

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

Rory Lamont (Scotland) – late tackle – the case of mistaken identity

In addition Mauro Bergamasco was cited and suspended.

Penalties conceded

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

* = points conceded

(i) Italy vs Ireland

Total number of penalties: 19

Italy: 10
Ireland: 9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

Italy:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Perugini 2, Mirco Bergamasco, Prattichetti)
Off-side: 2 (Nieto*, Bortolami)
Discipline: 4 (Troncon – not 10, Dellape – high, Staibano – man without ball, Scanavacca – trip)

Ireland:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Easterby*, Leamy*, D’Arcy, Brian O’Driscoll)
Off-side: 2 (Horgan* 2)
Scrum: 1 (Undetermined)
Discipline: 2 (Mick O’Driscoll – obstruction, O’Callaghan – collapsing maul)

Italy missed a penalty kick at goal.

(ii) France vs Scotland

Total number of penalties: 22

France: 9
Scotland: 13

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

France:

Tackle/ruck: 6 (Thion, Marty, Clerc, Betsen 2, Iba?ez)
Off-side: 2 (Iba?ez, Beauxis)
Discipline: 1 (De Villiers – collapsing maul)

Scotland:

Tackle/Ruck: 3 (Beattie, Paterson, Hines )
Off-side: 2 (Beattie*, Kerr)
Scrum: 4 (Kerr 2, Euan Murray)
Discipline: 5 (Euan Murray – collapsing maul, Taylor – man without ball, Hines – deliberate knock-on, Rory Lamont – late tackle, Hogg – man without ball)

Each side missed a penalty kick at goal.

(iii) Wales vs England

Total number of penalties: 17

Wales: 7
England: 11

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

Wales:

Tackle/ruck: 2 (Shane Williams, Philips)
Scrum: 1 (Gethin Jenkins & Horsman)
Off-side: 1 (Kevin Morgan)
Discipline: 3 (Martyn Williams – fighting, Matthew Rees – high tackle, Martyn Williams – obstruction)

England:

Tackle/ruck: 6 (Chuter, Lund 3, Payne, Tom Rees)
Off-side: 1 (Tom Rees)
Scrum: 1 (Payne*)
Discipline: 3 (Corry – air tackle, Deacon* – early tackle, Perry – not back 10)

Wales 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:

Italy vs Ireland: 8/19 = 42%
France vs Scotland: 9/23 = 39%
Wales vs England: 8/18 = 44%

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) Italy vs Ireland

Italy:

Line-outs: 12 (1 lost, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 8 (3 reset, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 7 (4 scrums, 1 mark, 1 line-out, 1 +10)
Drop-outs: 1

Ireland:

Line-outs: 13 (4 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 11 (4 reset, 6 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 3 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 1

(ii) France vs Scotland

France:

Line-outs: 11 (1 lost)
Scrums: 11 (7 reset, 1 penalty, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 1

Scotland:

Line-outs: 10 (1 lost)
Scrums: 4 (1 reset)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 1

(iii) Wales vs England

Wales:

Line-outs: 16 (3 lost)
Scrums: 5 (4 reset, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 0

England:

Line-outs: 16 (3 lost, 2 quick, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 10 (2 reset, 1 penalty, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 4 (2 scrums, 1 mark, 1 line-out)
Drop-outs: 1

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

Italy vs Ireland: 82
France vs Scotland: 71
Wales vs England: 76

Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:

Italy vs Ireland:
France vs Scotland:
Wales vs England: 197

Kicks per match

Italy vs Ireland:

Italy:
Ireland:

France vs Scotland:

France:
Scotland:

Wales vs England: 53

Wales: 26
England: 27

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 Ireland:
France vs Scotland:
Wales vs England: 23 (11)

Hold-ups for injury:

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

Substitutions/replacements:

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

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

(i) Italy vs Ireland:

Italy: 2
Ireland: 8

(ii) France vs Scotland:

France: 6
Scotland: 3

(iii) Wales vs England:

Wales: 2
England: 2

Tries/penalties scored

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

Wales: 2/4
Italy: 2/2
England: 2/1
Scotland: 3/0
Ireland: 8/1
France: 6/2

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 23/10

In Week 1 the ratio was 14/13.
In Week 2 the ratio was 5/22.
In Week 3 it was 16/17
In Week 4 it was 7/25

The ratio of tries to penalties for the 2007 Six Nations was 63/86

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

Italy vs Ireland: 10 + 9 = 19
France vs Scotland: 9 + 13 = 22
Wales vs England: 7 + 11 = 18

Penalties conceded per country:

England: 12 + 6 + 13 + 11 + 11 = 53
France: 4 + 10 + 6 + 8 + 9 = 37
Ireland: 9 + 4 + 8 + 8 + 9 = 38
Italy: 5 + 5 + 20 + 11 + 10 = 51
Scotland: 8 + 7+ 10 + 11 + 13 = 49
Wales: 7 + 16 + 10 + 1 + 7 = 41

Tries scored per country:

England: 4 + 1 +1 + 2 + 2 = 10
France: 5 + 2 + 2 + 0 + 6 = 15
Ireland: 3 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 8 = 17
Italy: 0 + 1 + 4 + 2 + 2 = 9
Scotland: 2 + 0 + 2 + 0 + 3 = 7
Wales: 0 + 0 + 3+ 2 + 2 = 7

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

Italy vs Ireland: 82
France vs Scotland: 71
Wales vs England: 76