RWC, Day 4, Statistics
There was just the one match on Day 4 – Argentina vs Georgia, a tough ask for Argentina after their bruising match with France on Friday, especially as the Lelos were not a team to shirk a physical encounter. Argentina scored their bonus-point try in the dying moments of the match.
We give some Rugby World Cup stats accumulatively.
Sanctionary Cards
Carl Hayman of New Zealand became the first recipient of a yellow card. He was not the only one.
On Day 4 there was none. But there were two citings with suspensions for Phil Vickery, Paul Emerick. and Schalk Burger.
In addition there have been citings for Alfie Vaeluaga (Samoa) and Juan Severino Somoza (Portugal), in view of which it may surprise some that there was no citing of Jerry Collins of New Zealand for a dangerous tackle (65 minutes of Italy vs New Zealand) and Brian Lima of Samoa for a dangerous tackle (64 minutes, South Africa vs Samoa).
Conduct on the field will be under the microscope from now on.
Recipients so far
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
Jo?o Uva (Portugal) – tackle infringement
Citing with suspension
Phil Vickery (England) – trip, suspended for two weeks
Paul Emerick (USA) – dangerous tackle, suspended for five weeks
Schalk Burger (South Africa) – dangerous tackle, suspended for four weeks
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
Argentina vs Georgia
Total number of penalties: 15
Argentina: 6
Georgia: 9
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
Argentina:
Tackle/ruck: 5 (Alvarez Kairelis 2, Gonzalez Bonorino, Hasan, Albacete)
Off-side: 1 (Ayerza*)
Georgia:
Tackle/ruck: 6 (Gorgodze, Chkhaidze, Giorgadze*, Maisuradze*, Undetermined, Didebulidze)
Off-side: 2 (Labadze, Gorgodze)
Discipline: 1 (Abuseridze* – deliberate knock-on)
Georgia missed a penalty at goal.
Tackles/Penalties
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 11/15
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.
The scrums were much more pleasing than they have been in some matches.
Argentina:
Line-outs: 18
Scrums: 6 (2 resets, 2 collapses)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1
Georgia:
Line-outs: 17 (2 lost, 1 reset, 1 quick)
Scrums: 14 (2 reset, 2 collapses, 3 lost)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Argentina vs Georgia: 77
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
Argentina vs Georgia: 4
Argentina: 4
Georgia: 0
Tries/penalties scored:
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Argentina: 4/3
Georgia: 0/1
Totals per match
Penalties
France vs Argentina: 8+ 9 = 17
New Zealand vs Italy: 3 + 8 = 11
Australia vs Japan: 6 + 6 = 12
England vs USA: 10 + 9 = 19
Wales vs Canada: 6 + 9 = 15
South Africa vs Samoa: 5 + 13 = 18
Scotland vs Portugal: 8 + 14 = 22
Ireland vs Namibia: 5 + 14 = 19
Argentina vs Georgia: 6 + 9 = 15
Tries
France vs Argentina: 0 + 1 = 1
New Zealand vs Italy: 11 + 2 = 13
Australia vs Japan: 13 + 0 = 13
England vs USA: 3 + 1 = 4
Wales vs Canada: 5 + 3 = 8
South Africa vs Samoa: 8 + 1 = 9
Scotland vs Portugal: 8 + 1 = 9
Ireland vs Namibia: 5 + 2 = 7
Argentina vs Georgia: 4 + 0 = 4
Stoppages
France vs Argentina: 71
New Zealand vs Italy: 58
Australia vs Japan: 60
England vs USA: 81
Wales vs Canada: 80
South Africa vs Samoa: 82
Scotland vs Portugal: 83
Ireland vs Namibia: 87
Argentina vs Georgia: 77
Penalties conceded per team
Argentina: 9 + 6 = 15
Australia: 6
Canada: 9
England: 10
Fiji:
France: 8
Georgia: 9
Ireland: 5
Italy: 8
Japan: 6
Namibia: 14
New Zealand: 3
Portugal: 14
Romania:
Samoa: 13
Scotland: 8
South Africa: 5
Tonga:
USA: 9
Wales: 6
Tries per team
After the first round only France and Japan have not scored tries. France!
Argentina: 1 + 4 = 5
Australia: 13
Canada: 3
England: 3
Fiji:
France: 0
Georgia: 0
Ireland: 5
Italy: 2
Japan: 0
Namibia: 2
New Zealand: 11
Portugal: 1
Romania:
Samoa: 1
Scotland:
South Africa: 8
Tonga:
USA: 1
Wales: 5
