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RWC, Day 2, Statistics

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Saturday 8 Sep 2007

The second day of the Rugby World Cup had two matches with huge scores and one which was mercifully more modest. We give some statistics from those matches.

The matches concerned are: New Zealand vs Italy, Australia vs Japan and England vs USA.

We shall also discuss some incidents from these three matches.

We shall also give some Rugby World Cup stats accumatively.

Soundsure are again a great help with the statistics.

Santionary Cards

Carl Hayman of New Zealand becmae the first recipient of a yellow card. He was not the only one.

There may well be citings against Phil Vickery of England and Paul Emerick of the USA.

Yellow card ecipients

Carl Hayman (New Zealand) – punching
Salvatore Perugini (Italy) – air tackle
Vahafolau Esikia (USA) – tackle infringement
Lawrence Dallaglio (England) – tackle infringement
Paul Emerick (USA) – dangerous tackle

Penalties conceded

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

New Zealand vs Italy

Total number of penalties: 11

New Zealand: 3
Italy: 8

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

New Zealand:

Tackle/ruck: 2 (McCaw, So’oialo)
Discipline: 1 (Hayman – punch)

Italy:

Tackle/ruck: 3 (Mauro Bergamasco, Lo Cicero, Vosawai)
Discipline: 4 (Bortolami – collapsin maul; Bortolami* – man without ball; Perugini – air tackle; De Marigny – man without ball)

New Zealand kicked the only penalty at goal.

Tackles/Penalties

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 5/11

New Zealand vs Italy:

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.

New Zealand vs Italy

New Zealand:

Line-outs: 15 (1 lost, 2 quick)
Scrums: 4 (1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 5 (4 marks, 1 line-out)
Drop-outs: 1

Italy:

Line-outs: 10 (1 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 8 (1 reset, 1 collpase, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 2 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 1

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

New Zealand vs Italy: 58

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

New Zealand vs Italy:

New Zealand: 11
Italy: 2

Tries/penalties scored

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

New Zealand: 11/1
Italy: 2/0

(ii) Australia vs Japan

Total number of penalties: 12

Australia: 6
Japan: 6`

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Australia:

Tackle/ruck: 1 (Tuqiri)
Scrum: 1 (Baxter)
Discipline: 4 (Gregan – fighting; Mortlock – man without ball; Giteau – high; Shepherdson – high)

Japan:

Tackle/ruck: 5 (Sasaki, Undetermined, Ono, Kiso, Vatuvei)
Off-side: 1 (Kitagawa)

Neither side missed a penalty kick at goal.

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties:

Australia vs Japan: 6/12

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.

Australia vs Japan

Australia:

Line-outs: 8 (1 quick)
Scrums: 5 (2 reset, 4 collpases, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 0

Japan:

Line-outs: 16 (2 lost, 2 resets, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 7 (4 reset, 4 collpases, 1 free kick, 2 lost)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 scrum, 1 line-out)
Drop-outs: 1

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

Australia vs Japan: 60

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Australia vs Japan:

Australia: 13
Japan: 0

Tries/penalties scored

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

Australia: 13/2
Japan: 0/1

(iii) England vs USA

Total number of penalties: 19

England: 10
USA: 9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

England:

Tackle/ruck: 8 (Perry, Worsley, Rees 2, Moody, Chuter & Sheridan, Dallaglio, Kay)
Discipline: 2 (Vickery, Robinson & Worsley* – obstruction; + 10 for throwing ball away – undetermined)

USA:

Tackle/ruck: 8 (MacDonald 2, Esikia* 2, Lentz, Emerick, Osentowski, Erskine)
Discipline: 1 (Emerick – dangerous tackle)

Neither side 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:

England vs USA: 16/19

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.

England vs USA

England:

Line-outs: 16 (3 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 8 (3 reset, 4 collpases, 3 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 3 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 0

USA:

Line-outs: 16 (3 lost, 2 skew)
Scrums: 13 (1 reset, 1 free kick, 1 wheel)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 1

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

England vs USA: 81

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

England vs USA:

England: 3
USA: 1

Tries/penalties scored

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

England: 3/3
USA: 1/1

Totals per match

Penalties

France vs Argentina: 8+ 9 = 17

Tries

France vs Argentina: 0 + 1 = 1

Stoppages

France vs Argentina: 71

Penalties conceded per team

Argentina: 9
Australia:
Canada
England: 10
Fiji:
France: 8
Georgia:
Ireland:
Italy: 8
Japan:
Namibia:
New Zealand: 3
Portugal:
Romania:
Samoa:
Scotland:
South Africa:
Tonga:
USA: 9

Tries per team

Argentina: 1
Australia: 13
Canada
England: 3
Fiji:
France: 0
Georgia:
Ireland:
Italy: 2
Japan: 0
Namibia:
New Zealand: 11
Portugal:
Romania:
Samoa:
Scotland:
South Africa:
Tonga:
USA: 1

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