Six Nations, Week 3, Part 1
Stats
In the third week of the Six Nations, France beat Italy in Paris, Ireland beat Wales in Dublin and then, in their second surprise this championship, Scotland beat England at Murrayfield, which will soon be dubbed Fortress Murrayfield. In this section we give some statistics from the matches.
We have already discussed an incident from Murrayfield and an incident from Dublin.
Cards
There were three, all yellow.
Danny Grewcock of England got one for taking a man out, Carlo Del Fava of Italy got one for a serious infringement, and Denis Leamy of Ireland got one for trampling.
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised. In (i), for example, France were penalised 7 times, Italy 11 times.
• = points conceded
(i) France vs Italy
Total number of penalties: 18
France: 7
Italy: 11
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
France:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Ibañez 2, Castaignède)
Discipline: 4 (Magne* – obstruction, Magne* – deliberate knock-on, Ibañez* – deliberate knock-on, Nyanga – high tackle)
Italy:
Tackle/ruck: 6 (Stoica*, Canale, Mauro Bergamasco, Mirco Bergamasco*, Bortolami, Pez)
Scrum: 1 (Nieto)
Off-side: 1 (Nieto & Perugini)
Discipline: 3 (Nitoglia – air tackle, Del Fava – collapsing maul, Mirco Bergamasco* – high)
France missed a kick at goal, Italy two.
(ii) Scotland vs England
Total number of penalties: 26
Scotland: 14
England: 12
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Scotland:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Paterson 2, Kerr*, Henderson, Hogg, Blair, Cusiter)
Off-side: 4 (Hogg*, Lamont** 2, Hines)
Scrum: 3 (Kerr, Douglas, Ford)
England:
Tackle/Ruck: 9 (Sheridan*, Corry, Noon, Tindall, Cohen*, Moody, Dallaglio*, Cueto*, Worsley)
Discipline: 3 (White – stamping, Grewcock – man without ball, Thompson & Sheridan* – obstruction)
England missed a penalty kick at goal
(iii) Ireland vs Wales
Total number of penalties: 28
Ireland: 9
Wales: 19
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Ireland:
Tackle/ruck: 2 (Wallace 2)
Off-side: 2 (O'Kelly & O'Gara, O'Kelly)
Discipline: 5 (Leamy & Easterby – obstruction, Leamy – stamping, Wallace – obstruction, Easterby – not 10m, D'Arcy – obstruction)
Wales:
Tackle/ruck: 8 (Sidoli, Duncan Jones, Martyn Williams, Byrne 3, Owen, Mark Jones)
Off-side: 2 (Luscombe & Watkins, Rhys Thomas)
Scrum: 1 (Martyn Williams)
Discipline: 8 (Gough – man without ball, Undetermined – dissent, Sidoli 5 – air tackle 2, obstruction, collapsing maul 2, Byrne – air tackle)
Tackles/Penalties
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties:
Ireland vs Italy: 13/21 = 63%
England vs Wales: 12/19 = 63%
Scotland vs France: 7/14 = 50%
France vs Ireland: 10/17 = 57%
Italy vs England: 16/19 = 89%
Wales vs Scotland: 9/21 = 43%
France vs Italy: 9/18 = 50%
Scotland vs England: 16/26 = 62%
Ireland vs Wales: 10/28 = 36%
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. In (i), for example, France threw into 8 line-outs, Ireland into 9 scrums. A line-out lost is recorded and a skew throw-in. At scrums, resets, loss and sanctions are recorded.
(i) France vs Italy
France:
Line-outs: 17 (2 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 6 (2 reset)
Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)
Drop-outs: 1
Italy:
Line-outs: 15 (4 lost, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 13 (4 reset, 1 wheel)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 4
(ii) Scotland vs England
Scotland:
Line-outs: 15 (4 lost)
Scrums: 8 (1 reset, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 2
England:
Line-outs: 18 (2 lost, 2 quick)
Scrums: 11 (7 reset, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 0
(iii) Ireland vs Wales
Ireland:
Line-outs: 13 (1 lost)
Scrums: 10 (2 reset, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 0
Wales:
Line-outs: 14 (2 lost, 1 skew, 1 quick)
Scrums: 11 (2 reset, 2 free kick)
Free- kicks: 2 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 2
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
France vs Italy: 64
Scotland vs England: 62
Ireland vs Wales: 57
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
(i) France vs Ireland:
France: 5
Italy: 0
(ii) Italy vs England:
Scotland: 0
England: 0
(iii) Ireland vs Wales:
Ireland: 3
Wales: 1
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries score to penalties scored by each team:
France: 5/2
Italy: 0/3
Scotland: 0/5
England: 0/4
Ireland: 3/4
Wales: 1/0
It has changed this round – 9 tries to 18 penalty goals whereas in the round before there were 21 tries to 5 penalty goals.
Some Totals:
Penalties conceded:
Ireland vs Italy: 9 + 12 = 21
England vs Wales: 8 + 11 = 19
Scotland vs France: 6 + 8 = 14
France vs Ireland: 13 + 4 = 17
Italy vs England: 8 + 11 = 19
Wales vs Scotland: 13 + 8 = 21
France vs Italy: 7 + 11 = 18
Scotland vs England: 14 + 12 = 26
Ireland vs Wales: 9 + 19 = 28
Penalties conceded per country:
England: 8 + 11 + 12 = 31
France: 8 + 13 + 7 = 28
Ireland: 9 + 4 + 9 = 22
Italy: 12 + 8 + 11 = 31
Scotland: 6 + 8 + 14 = 28
Wales: 11 + 13 + 19 = 43
Tries scored per country:
England: 6 + 4 + 0 = 10
France: 2 + 6 + 5 = 13
Ireland: 2 + 4 + 3 = 9
Italy: 1 + 1 + 0 = 2
Scotland: 2 + 2 + 0 = 4
Wales: 1 + 4 + 1 = 6
Stoppages by match:
Ireland vs Italy: 88
England vs Wales: 75
Scotland vs France: 77
France vs Ireland: 73
Italy vs England: 86
Wales vs Scotland: 95
France vs Italy: 82
Scotland vs England: 88
Ireland vs Wales: 85
