RWC, Day 7, Statistics
There were three matches on Saturday – New Zealand’s romp against the brave Portuguese who sing their anthem with more gusto than anybody else, Australia’s important win over Wales and the luck of the bewildered Irish against the ardent Georgians.
England remain the only team not to have scored a point in any one match in this World Cup.
We give some Rugby World Cup stats accumulatively.
We shall also discuss some incidents, probably in conjunction with other matches played over this weekend..
Sanctionary Cards
Carl Hayman of New Zealand became the first recipient of a yellow card. He was not the only one.
Australia picked up two on this day and at one stage were reduced to 13 men after first Drew Mitchell and then Nathan Sharpe went to the sin bin. Ireland lost David Wallace to the sin bin for a deliberate knock-on.
There may well be citings of Gareth Thomas and Chris Latham for tackles that were armless and late. Whether it will happen is anybody’s guess. Then, on a par with Paul Emerick, Drew Mitchell may also be cited.
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
Drew Mitchell (Australia) – dangerous tackle
Nathan Sharpe (Australia) – tackle infringement
David Wallace (Ireland) – deliberate knock-on
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, reduced to two on appeal
Alfie Vaeluaga (Samoa) – dangerous tackle, suspended for one week.
Juan Severino Somoza (Portugal) – head-butting, four weeks
Portugal vs New Zealand
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
Total number of penalties: 15
Portugal: 10
New Zealand: 5
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
Portugal:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Malheiro, Leal, Diogo Mateus, Pissarra, Penalva, Portela, Jo?o Uva)
Off-side: 1 (Undetermined)
Scrum: 1 (Correia)
Discipline: 1 (Jo?o Uva – dissent)
New Zealand:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Evans, Toeava, Lauaki, Masoe)
Discipline: 1 (Toeava – obstruction)
Portugal kicked the only penalties at goal. They goaled both
Tackles/Penalties
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 11/16
Portugal vs New Zealand:
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.
Portugal vs New Zealand
Portugal:
Line-outs: 9 (2 lost, 2 skew, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 10 (1 reset, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 scrum, 1 line-out)
Drop-outs: 0
New Zealand:
Line-outs: 16 (3 quick, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 8 (2 reset, 1 penalty, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 scrum, 1 line-out)
Drop-outs: 2
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Portugal vs New Zealand: 72
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
Portugal vs New Zealand:
Portugal: 1
New Zealand: 16
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Portugal: 1/2
New Zealand: 16/0
(ii) Wales vs Australia
Total number of penalties: 16
Wales: 5
Australia: 11`
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
Wales:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Adam Jones & Matthew Rees*, Mark Jones, Martyn Williams, Jonathan Thomas)
Off-side: 1 (Shane Williams)
Australia:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Mortlock, Moore, Elsom, Sharpe)
Scrum: 2 (Dunning*, Shepherdson)
Discipline: 5 (Sharpe – collapsing maul; Vickerman – obstruction in line-out; Smith – man without ball; Mitchell – dangerous tackle)
Wales missed four penalty kicks at goal, Australia 2.
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties:
Wales vs Australia: 8/16
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 not fun.
Wales vs Australia
Wales:
Line-outs: 14 (3 lost, 1 free kick, 1 skew)
Scrums: 12 (9 reset, 4 collapses, 2 penalties, 3 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 2 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 3
Australia:
Line-outs: 12 (1 lost, 1 penalty)
Scrums: 4 (3 reset, 2 collapses)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 scrum, 1 line-out)
Drop-outs: 2
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Wales vs Australia: 79
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
Wales vs Australia:
Wales: 1
Australia: 4
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Wales: 1/2
Australia: 4/1
(iii) Ireland vs Georgia
Total number of penalties: 13
Ireland: 8
Georgia: 5
Georgia conceded just one penalty in the second half.
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
Ireland:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (O’Callaghan 2, Leamy)
Off-side: 1 (O’Connell)
Scrum: 1 (Hayes)
Discipline: 3 (O’Connell – air tackle; Leamy – stamping; Wallace – deliberate knock-on)
Georgia:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Urushadze, Zedginidze, Gorgodze)
Discipline: 2 (Shvelidze – obstruction; Gorgodze – slap)
Both sides 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:
Ireland vs Georgia: 6/13
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.
Ireland vs Georgia
Ireland:
Line-outs: 14 (1 lost)
Scrums: 10 (7 reset, 5 collapses, 2 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 6 (2 scrums, 4 marks)
Drop-outs: 5
Georgia:
Line-outs: 21 (4 lost, 2 skew, 2 quick)
Scrums: 9 (1 reset, 1 lost, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Ireland vs Georgia: 89
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
Ireland vs Georgia:
Ireland: 2
Georgia: 1
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Ireland: 2/0
Georgia: 1/1
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
USA vs Tonga: 8 + 15 = 23
Fiji vs Japan: 12 + 6 = 18
Italy vs Romania: 8 + 15 = 23
England vs South Africa: 9 + 5 = 14
Portugal vs New Zealand: 10 + 5 = 15
Wales vs Australia: 5 + 11 = 16
Ireland vs Georgia: 8 + 5 = 13
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
England vs South Africa: 0 + 3 = 3
Portugal vs New Zealand: 1 + 16 = 17
Wales vs Australia: 1 + 4 = 5
Ireland vs Georgia: 2 + 1 = 3
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
England vs South Africa: 91
Portugal vs New Zealand: 72
Wales vs Australia: 79
Ireland vs Georgia: 89
Penalties conceded per team
Argentina: 9 + 6 = 15
Australia: 6 + 11 = 17
Canada: 9
England: 10 + 9 = 19
Fiji: 12
France: 8
Georgia: 9 + 5 = 14
Ireland: 5 + 8 = 14
Italy: 8 + 8 = 16
Japan: 6 + 6 = 12
Namibia: 14
New Zealand: 3 + 5 = 8
Portugal: 14 + 10 = 24
Romania: 15
Samoa: 13
Scotland: 8
South Africa: 5 + 5 = 10
Tonga: 13
USA: 9 + 9 = 18
Wales: 6 + 5 = 11
Tries per team
Argentina: 1 + 4 = 5
Australia: 13 + 4 = 17
Canada: 3
England: 3 + 0 = 3
Fiji: 4
France: 0
Georgia: 0 + 1 = 1
Ireland: 5 + 2 = 7
Italy: 2 + 2 = 4
Japan: 0 + 3 = 3
Namibia: 2
New Zealand: 11 + 16 = 27
Portugal: 1 + 1 = 2
Romania: 2
Samoa: 1
Scotland: 7
South Africa: 8 + 3 = 11
Tonga: 3
USA: 1
Wales: 5 + 1 = 6
