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August Test stats, week 2

By
Monday 13 Aug 2007

We have statistics for two Tests this week – Scotland vs Ireland at Murrayfield and England vs France at Twickenham.

At Murrayfield Scotland won, at Twickenham France.

As usual we had great help from Soundsure’s Fair Play system.

We shall discuss some aspects of law later in the week.

Sanctionary Cards

There was none this week though Jamie Noon may have been fortunate to avoid one for his lift and dump tackle on David Marty.

Penalties conceded

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

* = points conceded

(i) Scotland vs Ireland

Total number of penalties: 14

Scotland: 6
Ireland: 8

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

Scotland:

Tackle/ruck: 5 (Hogg*, Hamilton*, White, Ford*, Brown)
Scrum: 1 (Smith)

Ireland:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Flannery, Simon Best, Neil Best, Wallace)
Off-side: 1 (Quinlan)
Scrum: 1 (Simon Best)
Discipline: 2 (O’Connell – obstruction; Ferris – punch)

Scotland did not kick a penalty kick at goal. Ireland did not miss a penalty kick at goal.

(ii) England vs France

Total number of penalties: 17

England: 10
France: 7

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

England:

Tackle/ruck: 5 (Sheridan, Dallaglio, Regan*, Shaw, Barkley)
Off-side: 4 (Noon, Sheridan*, Worsley, Kay*)
Discipline: 1 (Noon – dangerous tackle)

France:

Tackle/Ruck: 3 (Poitrenaud*, Skrela*, Poux )
Off-side: 1 (Martin)
Scrum: 1 (Milloud)
Discipline: 2 (Rougerie – obstruction; Elissalde – dissent)

France 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:

Scotland vs Ireland: 9/14 = 64%
England vs France: 8/17 = 47%

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: 23 (1 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 10 (1 reset, 1 collapsed)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 0

Ireland:

Line-outs: 11 (2 lost)
Scrums: 8 (5 reset, 6 collapses, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 1

(ii) England vs France

England:

Line-outs: 14 (3 lost)
Scrums: 8 (8 reset, 6 collapses, 1 penalty, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 2 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 1

France:

Line-outs: 11 (2 lost, 1 skew, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 11 (1 reset, 1 collapse, 1 lost, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)
Drop-outs: 0

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

Scotland vs Ireland: 75
England vs France: 74

Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:

Scotland vs Ireland: 199
England vs France: 176

Kicks per match

Scotland vs Ireland: 48

Scotland: 24
Ireland: 24

England vs France: 39

England: 17
France: 22

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: 7 (6)
England vs France: 13 (5)

Hold-ups for injury:

Scotland vs Ireland: 20
England vs France: 3

Substitutions/replacements:

Scotland vs Ireland: 17 (5 for blood)
England vs France: 10

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

(i) Scotland vs Ireland:

Scotland: 5
Ireland: 2

(ii) England vs France:

England: 0
France: 2

Tries/penalties scored

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

Scotland: 5/0
France: 2/3
Ireland: 2/3
England: 0/4

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 9/10

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