Some Six Nations statistics, Round 2
We give some statistics from the matches of the second round of the 2009 Six Nations – France vs Scotland in Paris, Wales vs England in Cardiff and Italy vs Ireland in Rome.
At the end there are some totals which will tell you who scored most tries, who kicked most, who passed most.
Sanctions
England again collected two yellow cards this weekend. Italy also got two and Ireland one.
Yellow cards so far in the 2009 Six Nations:
Round 2
Mike Tindall (England) – deliberate infringement
Andy Goode (England) – deliberate infringement
Andrea Masi (Italy) – dangerous tackle
Salvatore Perugini (Italy) – air tackle
Ronan O’Gara (Ireland) – tackling a man without the ball
Round 1
James Haskell (England) – tripping
Shane Geraghty (England) – air tackle
Geoff Cross (Scotland) – air tackle
Martyn Williams (Wales) – deliberate infringement
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
* = points conceded
(i) France vs Scotland
Total number of penalties: 20
France: 7
Scotland: 13
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
France:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Ouedraogo, Jauzion*, Heymans)
Discipline: 4 (Médard – obstruction; Szarzewski* – man without the ball; Harinordoquy – high tackle; Nallet – trip)
Scotland:
Tackle/ruck: 8 (Jacobsen & Taylor, Strokosch, Dickinson* 3, Barclay, Gray 2)
Scrum: 3 (Ford, Jacobsen, Undetermined)
Discipline: 2 (Barclay – high tackle; Jacobsen – high tackle)
France missed two penalty kicks at goal.
(ii) Wales vs England
Total number of penalties: 19
Wales: 7
England: 12
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Wales:
Tackle/ruck: 6 (Martyn Williams 3, Gough, Roberts, Ryan Jones)
Discipline: 1 (Byrne – air tackle)
England:
Tackle/Ruck: 8 (Mears*, Goode* 2, Tindall*, Easter, Haskell, Croft*, Flutey )
Off-side: 3 (Armitage, Easter, “All the backs”)
Scrum: 1 (Vickery)
Wales missed a penalty kick at goal; England missed two.
(iii) Italy vs Ireland
Total number of penalties: 30
Italy: 18
Ireland: 12
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Italy:
Tackle/ruck: 9 (Canale, Zanni 2, Castrogiovanni 2, Masi, Dellapè, Festuccia*, Del Fava)
Scrum: 4 (Castrogiovanni 2, Nieto, Undetermined – whip wheel)
Offside: 1 (Reato)
Discipline: 3 (Masi – high tackle; Pratichetti – air tackle; Perugini – air tackle; Mirco Bergamasco – man without the ball)
Ireland:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Hayes, David Wallace* 2, O’Leary)
Off-side: 2 (O’Callaghan*, O’Gara)
Scrum: 4 (Horan 2, Hayes 2)
Discipline: 2 (O’Callaghan* – high tackle; O’Gara – man without the ball)
Italy 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:
France vs Scotland: 7/20 = 35%
Wales vs England: 9/19 = 47%
Italy vs Ireland: 13/30 = 43%
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) France vs Scotland
France:
Line-outs: 10 (2 lost, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 15 (4 reset, 3 collapses, 3 free kick, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 3 (2 scrums, 1 line-out)
Drop-outs: 0
Scotland:
Line-outs: 11 (1 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 8 (4 reset, 7 collapses, 1 wheel, 4 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 5 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 3
(ii) Wales vs England
Wales:
Line-outs: 13 (1 lost)
Scrums: 8 (5 reset, 6 collapses, 2 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 scrum, 1 mark)
Drop-outs: 2
England:
Line-outs: 4 (1 skew)
Scrums: 3 (3 reset, 3 collapses)
Free-kicks: 3 (1 scrum, 1 +10, 1 mark)
Drop-outs: 0
(iii) Italy vs Ireland
Italy:
Line-outs: 13 (2 lost, 1 scrum)
Scrums: 10 (3 reset, 4 penalties)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 0
Ireland:
Line-outs: 17 (2 lost, 1 skew, 1 quick)
Scrums: 10 (4 reset, 7 collapses, 3 penalties)
Free-kicks: 2 (marks)
Drop-outs: 0
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
France vs Scotland: 81
Wales vs England: 62
Italy vs Ireland: 90
Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:
France vs Scotland: 153
Wales vs England: 213
Italy vs Ireland: 170
Kicks per match
France vs Scotland: 56
France: 36
Scotland: 20
Wales vs England: 74
Wales: 40
England: 34
Italy vs Ireland: 35
Italy: 18
Ireland: 17
Passes per match:
France vs Scotland: 295
France: 127
Scotland: 168
Wales vs England: 317
Wales: 166
England: 151
Italy vs Ireland: 245
Italy: 89
Ireland: 157
Advantage
Here we give the number of times in the match the referee allowed advantage. (The figure in brackets is the number times the advantage actually accrued.)
France vs Scotland: 12 (4)
Wales vs England: 11 (#)
Italy vs Ireland: 11 (4)
Hold-ups for injury:
France vs Scotland:
Wales vs England: 58
Italy vs Ireland: 13
Substitutions/replacements:
France vs Scotland: 11
Wales vs England: 9
Italy vs Ireland: 13
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
(i) France vs Scotland:
France: 1
Scotland: 1
(ii) Wales vs England:
Wales: 1
England: 2
(iii) Italy vs Ireland:
Italy: 0
Ireland: 5
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Italy: 0/3
France: 1/5
Ireland: 5/1
England: 1/0
Scotland: 1/2
Wales: 1/6
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 9/17
In Week 1 the ratio was 16/11
Some Totals
Tries per country
England: 5 + 2 = 8
France: 2 + 1 = 3
Ireland: 3 + 5 = 8
Italy: 1 + 0 = 1
Scotland: 1 + 1 = 2
Wales: 4 + 1 = 5
Penalty goals per country
England: 1 + 0 = 1
France: 1 + 5 = 6
Ireland: 3 + 1 = 4
Italy: 2 + 3 = 5
Scotland: 2 + 2 = 4
Wales: 2 + 6 = 8
Kicks per country
England: 42 +34 = 76
France: 29 + 36 = 65
Ireland: 39 + 17 = 56
Italy: 39 + 18 = 57
Scotland: 23 + 20 = 43
Wales: 22 + 40 = 62
Passes per country
England: 132 + 151 =283
France: 174 + 127 = 201
Ireland: 103 + 157 =260
Italy: 146 + 89 = 235
Scotland: 200 + 168 = 368
Wales: 188 + 166 = 354
