RWC, Day 5, Statistics

There were three matches on Day 5 – an interesting one in the heat of Montpellier, an exciting one in Toulouse, and a grim, tedious, nasty one in Marseilles.

We give some Rugby World Cup stats accumulatively.

Gathering statistics is more difficult at the Rugby World Cup than we are used to because of the nature of filming – remote at times, close-up at others and sometimes away from play – and the communication because the referees are mostly inaudible and the commentators talking away from the play.

We shall also discuss some incidents, especially one described by a commentator as bizarre.

Sanctionary Cards

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

On Day 5 we were back to yellow cards and there may even be citings. Vilimoni Delasau of Fiji got one, not for his trip on Shotaro Onishi, but for his high tackle. Alexandru Manta of Romania got one for collapsing a maul as the Oaks were intent on defence at all costs.

We are also back to a citing with suspension – Alfie Vaeluaga of Samoa this time, from a match played on Sunday as well as Juan Severino Somoza of Portugal.

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
Vilimoni Delasau (Fiji) – dangerous tackle
Alexandru Manta (Romania) – maul 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
Alfie Vaeluaga (Samoa) – dangerous tackle, suspended for one week.
Juan Severino Somoza (Portugal) – head-butting, four weeks

(i) USA vs Tonga

Penalties conceded

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

Total number of penalties: 22

USA: 9
Tonga: 13

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

USA:

Tackle/ruck: 5 (Clever, Erskine, Hercus, Osentowski*, Ngwenya)
Off-side: 2 (Stanfill, Parker)
Scrum: 1 (MacDonald)
Discipline: 1 (Parker – pulling hair

Tonga:

Tackle/ruck: 6 (Latu 2, Tonga’uiha, Vaka, Tupou, Tu’ipulotu,)
Off-side: 3 (Vaka, Taione, T-Pole)
Scrum: 2 (Pulu, Tonga’uiha)
Discipline: 1 (Hola – high tackle)

The reason for one penalty could not be determined.

The USA 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: 11/22

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.

USA:

Line-outs: 17 (1 lost, 1 skew, 1 quick)
Scrums: 13 (5 resets, 5 collapses, 2 penalties, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 1

Tonga:

Line-outs: 12 (3 lost)
Scrums: 7 (3 reset, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 1

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

USA vs Tonga: 83

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

USA vs Tonga: 5

USA: 2
Tonga: 3

Tries/penalties scored:

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

USA: 2/1
Tonga: 3/2

(ii) Fiji vs Japan

Total number of penalties: 19

Fiji: 13
Japan: 6`

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Fiji:

Tackle/ruck: 5 (Leawere, Naevo*, Ratuva 2, Little)
Off-side: 5 (Lewaravu, Undetermined*, Undetermined*, Naevo 2, Undetermined)
Discipline: 3 (Rauluni – kicking; Delasau – high; Qiodravu – dissent)

Japan:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Yoshida, Miuchi, Ono, Undetermined*)
Discipline: 2 (Makiri* – armless tackle; Undetermined* – high tackle

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:

Fiji vs Japan: 9/19

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.

Fiji:

Line-outs: 13 (4 lost)
Scrums: 6
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 0

Japan:

Line-outs: 16 (1 lost, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 9 (3 reset, 1 collapse, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 3 (1 scrum, 1 line-out, 1 mark)
Drop-outs: 1

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

Fiji vs Japan: 71

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Fiji vs Japan:

Fiji: 4
Japan: 3

Tries/penalties scored

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

Fiji: 4/3
Japan: 3/4

(iii) Italy vs Romania

Total number of penalties: 23

Italy: 8
Romania: 15

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Italy:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Griffen, Lo Cicero, Bortolami, Parisse*)
Off-side: 1 (Undetermined)
Discipline: 3 (Masi – late tackle; Bernabo – collapsing maul; Vosawai – deliberate knock-on)

Romania:

Tackle/ruck: 7 (Manta 2, Dimofte, Tonita, Corodeanu, Balan 2)
Off-side: 2 (Tincu 2)
Discipline: 6 (Brezoianu – air tackle; Manta – collapsing maul; Socol – air tackle; Socol – armless; Socol* – fighting; Tincu – fighting)

Romania also conceded a penalty try.

Italy missed a penalty kick at goal, Romania three.

Tackles/Penalties

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

Italy vs Romania: 11/23

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.

Italy:

Line-outs: 23 (3 lost, 1 skew, 2 quick)
Scrums: 10 (4 reset, 4 collapses, 1 free kick, 1 penalty try)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 2

Romania:

Line-outs: 14 (3 lost, 1 reset)
Scrums: 4 (2 reset, 2 collapses)
Free-kicks: 2 (marks)
Drop-outs: 1

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

Italy vs Romania: 87

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Italy vs Romania:

Italy: 2
Romania: 2

Tries/penalties scored

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

Italy: 2/4
Romania: 2/2

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
USA vs Tonga: 8 + 15 = 23
Fiji vs Japan: 12 + 6 = 18
Italy vs Romania: 8 + 15 = 23

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
USA vs Tonga: 2 + 3 = 5
Fiji vs Japan: 4 + 3 = 7
Italy vs Romania: 2 + 2 = 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
USA vs Tonga: 83
Fiji vs Japan: 71
Italy vs Romania: 87

Penalties conceded per team

Argentina: 9 + 6 = 15
Australia: 6
Canada: 9
England: 10
Fiji: 12
France: 8
Georgia: 9
Ireland: 5
Italy: 8 + 8 = 16

Japan: 6 + 6 = 12
Namibia: 14
New Zealand: 3
Portugal: 14
Romania: 15
Samoa: 13
Scotland: 8
South Africa: 5
Tonga: 13
USA: 9 + 9 = 18
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: 4
France: 0
Georgia: 0
Ireland: 5
Italy: 2 + 2 = 4
Japan: 0 + 3 = 3
Namibia: 2
New Zealand: 11
Portugal: 1
Romania: 2
Samoa: 1
Scotland: 7
South Africa: 8
Tonga: 3
USA: 1
Wales: 5