Some 6 Nations stats, Week 3
We give some statistics from the matches. Which team had the ball in its possession longest? Who kicked most? Who passed most? Who tackled most? Whose scrums were messiest? You can find out all that and more.
Results, Week 3
England vs France, 17-9 in London
Wales vs Italy, 24-16 in Rome
Ireland vs Scotland, 21-18 in Edinburgh
Sanctions
Yellow Cards: Just one – Scotland’s Alan Jacobsen and he was a prop and he was penalised for a scrum infringement. Cleaning up the scrums is a serious undertaking.
Yellow cards so far
Week 1
Louis Deacon (England) – infringement at a tackle – slapping the ball out of the scrumhalf’s hands. It was his team’s fourth penalty at a tackle.
Craig Mitchell (Wales) – tackle infringement. It was his team’s fourth infringement at a tackle
Denis Leamy (Ireland) – tackle infringement. It was his team’s sixth infringement at a tackle.
Week 2
Martín Castrogiovanni (Italy): deliberately knocking the ball away to prevent a tap kick
Bradley Davies (Wales): deliberate offence at a tackle – kicking the ball away.
Lee Byrne (Wales): high tackle
Week 3
Alan Jacobsen (Scotland) – scrum infringement
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
* = points conceded
(i) Italy vs Wales
Total number of penalties: 19
Italy: 5
Wales: 14
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Italy:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Barbieri*, Bergamasco, Castrogiovanni*, Dellapè)
Scrum: 1 (Castrogiovanni)
Wales:
Tackle/ruck: 6 (Stoddart*, Davies 2, Ryan Jones* 2, James)
Off-side: 1 (Mitchell)
Scrum: 4 (James 2, Mitchell, Rees)
Discipline: 3 (Warburton – high tackle; Rees – high tackle; Ryan Jones – air tackle)
Italy missed two penalty kicks at goal.
(ii) England vs France
Total number of penalties: 15
England: 8
France: 7
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
England:
Tackle/ruck: 5 (Cueto* 2, Easter* 2, Tindall)
Offside: 1 (Haskell)
Scrum: 1 (Sheridan)
Discipline: 1 (Palmer – obstruction)
France:
Tackle/Ruck: 2 (Mas, Marconnet)
Offside: 2 (Jauzion*, Chabal*
Scrum: 3 (Domingo*, Mas 2)
France missed two penalty kicks at goal.
(iii) Scotland vs Ireland
Total number of penalties: 16
Scotland: 4
Ireland: 12
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Scotland:
Tackle/ruck: 2 (Low, Jacobsen)
Scrum: 2 (Low, Jacobsen)
Ireland:
Tackle/ruck: 9 (Fitzgerald, O’Brien, Heaslip*** 3, Best*, O’Gara, O’Driscoll)
Off-side: 1 (Healy*)
Scrum: 2 (Ross, Healy)
Scotland missed a penalty kick at goal, Ireland two.
Tackles/Penalties
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties:
Italy vs Wales: 10/19 = 53%
England vs France: 7/15 = 47%
Scotland vs Ireland: 11/16 = 59%
These are lower percentages than Week 2’s.
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.
(i) Italy vs Wales
Italy:
Line-outs: 16 (4 lost)
Scrums: 6 (1 reset, 2 collapses, 5 penalties)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1
Wales:
Line-outs: 5 (1 skew)
Scrums: 6
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 1
(ii) England vs France
England:
Line-outs: 12 (1 quick)
Scrums: 9 (3 reset, 6 collapses, 1 lost, 2 penalties, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 5 (1 mark, 3 scrums, 1 line-out)
Drop-outs: 0
France:
Line-outs: 11 (1 lost, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 8 (3 reset, 3 collapses, 1 penalty, 2 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 1
(iii) Scotland vs Ireland
Scotland:
Line-outs: 19 (1 lost, 1 skew, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 6 (4 reset, 8 collapses, 3 penalties)
Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)
Drop-outs: 2
Ireland:
Line-outs: 8 (1 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 6 (1 reset, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1
The Scottish scrums were a mess.
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Italy vs Wales: 62
England vs France: 67
Scotland vs Ireland: 56
Rucks/mauls per match
Italy vs Wales: 199
England vs France: 154
Scotland vs Ireland: 174
Using Possession
Kicks per match
Italy vs Wales: 47
Italy: 21
Wales: 26
England vs France: 40
England: 19
France: 21
Scotland vs Ireland: 48
Scotland: 24
Ireland: 24
Passes per match:
Italy vs Wales: 341
Italy: 191
Wales: 150
England vs France: 307
England: 157
France: 150
Scotland vs Ireland: 336
Scotland: 192
Ireland: 144
Turnovers won
Italy vs Wales: 5
Italy: 1
Wales: 4
England vs France: 10
England: 7
France: 3
Scotland vs Ireland: 6
Scotland: 1
Ireland: 5
Tackles made
Italy vs Wales: 233
Italy: 91
Wales: 142
England vs France: 191
England: 99
France: 92
Scotland vs Ireland: 221
Scotland: 99
Ireland: 122
Tackles missed
Italy vs Wales: 15
Italy: 10
Wales: 5
England vs France: 5
England: 4
France: 1
Scotland vs Ireland: 17
Scotland: 12
Ireland: 5
Minutes in possession
Italy vs Wales: 37 minutes 48 seconds
Italy: 19 minutes 24 seconds
Wales: 18 minutes 24 seconds
England vs France: 28 minutes 29 seconds
England: 15 minutes 27 seconds
France: 13 minutes 02 seconds
Scotland vs Ireland: 31 minutes 22 seconds
Scotland: 18 minutes 07 seconds
Ireland: 13 minutes 15 seconds
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
(i) Italy vs Wales: 4
Italy: 2
Wales: 2
(ii) England vs France: 1
England: 1
France: 0
(iii) Scotland vs Ireland: 3
Scotland: 0
Ireland: 3
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Scotland: 0/5
Italy: 2/2
Ireland: 3/0
France: 0/3
Wales: 2/3
England: 1/4
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 8/17.
In Week 1 the ratio was 16/17
In Week 2 it was 15/16
Some Totals
Tries per country
England: 2 + 8 + 1= 11
France: 4 + 1 + 0 = 5
Ireland: 1 + 3 + 3 = 7
Italy: 1 + 1 + 2 = 4
Scotland: 3 + 0 + 0 = 3
Wales: 1 + 2 + 2 = 5
Penalties per country
England: 9 + 15 + 8 = 32
France: 6 + 7 + 7 = 20
Ireland: 13 + 10 + 12 = 35
Italy: 5 + 15 + 5 = 25
Scotland: 8 + 10 + 4 = 22
Wales: 8 + 12 + 14 = 34
Kicks per country
England: 21 + 16 +18= 55
France: 19 + 16 + 21 = 56
Ireland: 21 + 10 + 24 = 55
Italy: 19 + 15 + 21 = 55
Scotland: 22 + 25 + 24 = 71
Wales: 25 + 27 + 26 = 78
Passes per country
England: 147 + 234 + 157 = 538
France: 169 + 152 + 150 = 471
Ireland: 193 + 126 + 144 = 463
Italy: 124 + 148 + 191 = 463
Scotland: 203 + 199 + 192 = 594
Wales: 185 + 107 + 150 = 442
