RWC, Day 8, Statistics
The days started with two thrillers when Fiji beat Canada, which was perhaps a surprise, and Tonga beat Samoa, which was a surprise. After all Canada had done well in defeat against Wales and Samoa had done well in defeat against South Africa. The match between Namibia and France was a mismatch, made more so when Namibia were reduced to 14 men.
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.
Tonga were the ones with a disciplinary problem. Two players were yellow-carded and Kale T Pole was red-carded after his third act of foul play in the second half. Tonga ended the match with 13 players but playing with great determination.
Namibia also suffered a red card and had to play for 60 minutes with 14 men.
Both T Pole and Nieuwenhuis had been warned about their conduct but obviously were more concerned about their personal activities than what the referee had to say or the needs of their team-mates. They seemed on some suicide mission.
Recipients of red cards so far
Hale T Pole (Tonga) – foul play
Jacques Nieuwenhuis (Namibia) – dangerous tackle
Recipients of yellow cards 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
Epeli Taione (Tonga) – tackle infringement
Toma Toke (Tonga) – dangerous tackle
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
Canada vs Fiji
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
Total number of penalties: 20
Canada: 11
Fiji: 10
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
Canada:
Tackle/ruck: 6 (James 2, Pyke 2, Thiel, Riordan)
Off-side: 2 (Biddle 2)
Discipline: 3 (Cudmore – dissent; Riordan – obstruction; Williams – man without ball; )
Fiji:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Qera, Neivua, Koyamaibole)
Off-side: 2 (Neivua*, Bai*)
Discipline: 5 (Delasau – high tackle; Koyamaibole – obstruction; Dewes – collapsing maul; Rawaqa – collapsing maul; Talei – man without ball)
Canada missed two kicks at goal, Fiji one.
Tackles/Penalties
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 9/21
Canada vs Fiji:
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.
Canada vs Fiji
Canada:
Line-outs: 16 (4 lost, 1 quick, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 8
Free-kicks: 2 (line-outs)
Drop-outs: 2
Fiji:
Line-outs: 16 (4 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 8 (2 reset, 1 penalty, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 3 (marks)
Drop-outs: 1
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Canada vs Fiji: 79
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
Canada vs Fiji:
Canada: 1
Fiji: 4
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Canada: 1/3
Fiji: 4/1
(ii) Samoa vs Tonga
Total number of penalties: 22
Samoa: 12
Tonga: 10
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
Samoa:
Tackle/ruck: 8 (Ulia 2, Schwalger* 2, Sititi, Williams*, Tuilagi, Thompson)
Off-side: 2 (Ulia* 2)
Discipline: 2 (Tekori – collapsing maul; Johnston – + 10)
Tonga:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Latu*, Vaka*, Taufa, Taione)
Discipline: 6 (Maka – collapsing maul; Afeaki – foul play; T Pole – foul play; T Pole – dangerous tackle; T Pole – foul play; Toke – dangerous tackle)
Each 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:
Samoa vs Tonga: 12/22
The number of penalties for disciplinary offences was high.
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.
Samoa vs Tonga
Samoa:
Line-outs: 24 (2 skew)
Scrums: 5 (4 reset, 2 collapses)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 1
Tonga:
Line-outs: 16 (4 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 9 (2 reset, 4 collapses, 1 free kick, 1 lost)
Free-kicks: 4 (1 scrum, 3 marks)
Drop-outs: 1
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Samoa vs Tonga: 90
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
Samoa vs Tonga:
Samoa: 0
Tonga: 1
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Samoa: 0/5
Tonga: 1/4
(iii) France vs Namibia
Total number of penalties: 9
France: 4
Namibia: 5
This is the lowest penalty count so far in the 2007 Rugby World Cup.
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
France:
Tackle/ruck: 2 (Elissalde, Clerc)
Discipline: 2 (Chabal – collapsing maul; Pelous – obstruction)
Namibia:
Tackle/ruck: 2 (Du Toit, Bock)
Scrum: 2 (Du Toit 2)
Discipline: 2 (Nieuwenhuis – high tackle)
Namibia missed a penalty kick at goal. France did not kick a penalty at goal.
Tackles/Penalties
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties:
France vs Namibia: 4/9
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.
France vs Namibia
France:
Line-outs: 15 (1 free kick)
Scrums: 13 (4 reset, 1 collapse)
Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)
Drop-outs: 0
Namibia:
Line-outs: 9 (3 lost)
Scrums: 11 (4 reset, 2 collapses, 1 lost, 1 free kick, penalty)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 scrum, 1 mark)
Drop-outs: 0
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
France vs Namibia: 69
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
France vs Namibia:
France: 13
Namibia: 1
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
France: 13/0
Namibia: 1/0
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
Canada vs Fiji: 11 + 10 = 21
Samoa vs Tonga: 12 + 10 = 22
France vs Namibia: 4 + 5 = 9
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
Canada vs Fiji: 1 + 4 = 5
Samoa vs Tonga: 0 + 1 = 1
France vs Namibia: 13 + 1 = 14
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
Canada vs Fiji: 71
Samoa vs Tonga: 90
France vs Namibia: 69
Penalties conceded per team
Argentina: 9 + 6 = 15
Australia: 6 + 11 = 17
Canada: 9 + 11 = 20
England: 10 + 9 = 19
Fiji: 12 + 10 = 22
France: 8 + 4 = 12
Georgia: 9 + 5 = 14
Ireland: 5 + 8 = 14
Italy: 8 + 8 = 16
Japan: 6 + 6 = 12
Namibia: 14 + 5 = 19
New Zealand: 3 + 5 = 8
Portugal: 14 + 10 = 24
Romania: 15
Samoa: 13 + 12 = 25
Scotland: 8
South Africa: 5 + 5 = 10
Tonga: 13 + 10 = 23
USA: 9 + 9 = 18
Wales: 6 + 5 = 11
Tries per team
Argentina: 1 + 4 = 5
Australia: 13 + 4 = 17
Canada: 3 + 1 = 4
England: 3 + 0 = 3
Fiji: 4 + 4 = 8
France: 0 + 13 = 13
Georgia: 0 + 1 = 1
Ireland: 5 + 2 = 7
Italy: 2 + 2 = 4
Japan: 0 + 3 = 3
Namibia: 2 + 1 = 3
New Zealand: 11 + 16 = 27
Portugal: 1 + 1 = 2
Romania: 2
Samoa: 1 + 0 = 1
Scotland: 7
South Africa: 8 + 3 = 11
Tonga: 3 + 1 = 4
USA: 1
Wales: 5 + 1 = 6
