Some Six Nations statistics, Round 4
England had a first half to dream off at Twickenham, Ireland stayed unbeaten at Murrayfield and Italy’s made Wales work at Stadio Flaminio. We give some statistics from the matches.
The totals may be interesting at the end – who scored most tries, who fewest, who conceded most penalties, who fewest and passes and kick.
Soundsure have provide some of the statistics.
Results:
England vs France, 34-10
Ireland vs Scotland, 22-15
Wales vs Italy, 20-15
Disciplinary sanctions
There were, mirabile narratu, no yellow cards this round.
Yellow cards so far in the 2009 Six Nations:
Round 1
James Haskell (England) – tripping
Shane Geraghty (England) – air tackle
Geoff Cross (Scotland) – air tackle
Martyn Williams (Wales) – deliberate infringement
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 3
Phil Vickery (England) – deliberate infringement
Danny Care (England – playing a man without the ball after the whistle
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
* = points conceded
(i) Italy vs Wales
Total number of penalties: 18
Italy: 7
Wales: 11
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Italy:
Tackle/ruck: 5 (Ghiraldini, Pratichetti* 2, Bortolami*, Perugini)
Off-side: 1 (Ghiraldini)
Scrum: 1 (Castrogiovanni)
Wales:
Tackle/ruck: 5 (Bennett & Dafydd Jones, Roberts, Bennett, Shane Williams*, Shanklin*)
Off-side: 1 (Rhys Thomas)
Scrum: 3 (Yapp** 3)
Discipline: 2 (Powell – obstruction; Alun-Wyn Jones – man without ball)
Italy missed two penalty kicks at goal.
(ii) Scotland vs Ireland
Total number of penalties: 19
Scotland: 8
Ireland:11
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Scotland:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Hamilton*, Cusiter, Taylor, Max Evans)
Off-side: 3 (Gray, Taylor, Barclay)
Discipline: 1 (Hines – + 10)
Ireland:
Tackle/Ruck: 6 (O’Gara*, David Wallace* 2, Leamy, O’Connell, Flannery)
Off-side: 1 (Several)
Scrum: 3 (Hayes 2, Horan*)
Discipline: 1 (O’Driscoll* – stamping)
Ireland missed a penalty kick at goal.
(iii) England vs France
Total number of penalties: 25
England: 13
France: 12
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
England:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Flood, Shaw 2, Croft, Flutey, Vickery, Tindall)
Offside: 1 (Shaw 3)
Scrum: 3 (Sheridan 2, Vickery)
Discipline: 2 (Shaw – obstruction; Monye – deliberate knock-on)
France:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Szarzewski, Dusautoir, Jauzion 2, Malzieu 2, Tillous-Borde)
Off-side: 1 (Harinordoquy)
Scrum: 2 (Marconnet 2)
Discipline: 2 (Chabal – air tackle; Bonnaire – air tackle)
France 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:
Italy vs Wales: 10/18 = 56%
Scotland vs Ireland: 10/19 = 53%
England vs France: 14/25 = 56%
Possession – getting and using
In this section the figures represent the number of times you get to play with the ball.
(i) Italy vs Wales
Italy:
Line-outs: 12 (2 lost, 1 quick, 1 reset)
Scrums: 11 (7 reset, 7 collapses, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 1
Wales:
Line-outs: 10 (1 skew)
Scrums: 6 ( 1 reset, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 4 (3 marks, 1 scrum)
Drop-outs: 2
(ii) Scotland vs Ireland
Scotland:
Line-outs: 15 (4 lost)
Scrums: 4 (1 reset, 3 collapses, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 2
Ireland:
Line-outs: 13 (1 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 8 (3 reset, 5 collapses, 2 penalties, 3 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 4 (3 scrums, 1 +10)
Drop-outs: 0
(iii) England vs France
England:
Line-outs: 13 (2 reset, 1 quick)
Scrums: 9 (9 reset, 10 collapses, 2 free kicks, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 3 (2 scrums, 1 mark)
Drop-outs: 1
France:
Line-outs: 17 (2 lost, 3 quick, 1 reset, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 9 (9 reset, 2 collapses, 3 penalties, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 3 (2 scrums, 1 line-out)
Drop-outs: 1
The scrums were a ,mess. 18 scrums produced 18 resets, 12 collapses, 5 penalties and 3 free kicks. That is hardly a top performance from to players – or what thousands of spectators have paid top money to see.
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Italy vs Wales: 73
Scotland vs Ireland: 71
England vs France: 92
Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:
Italy vs Wales: 175
Scotland vs Ireland: 193
England vs France: 197Kicks per match
Italy vs Wales: 96
Italy: 52
Wales: 44
Scotland vs Ireland: 62
Scotland: 25
Ireland: 37
England vs France: 53
England: 31
France: 22
Passes per match:
Italy vs Wales: 256
Italy: 142
Wales: 114
Scotland vs Ireland: 328
Scotland: 168
Ireland: 160
England vs France: 321
England: 130
France: 191
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.)
Italy vs Wales: 10 (6)
Scotland vs Ireland: 8 (6)
England vs France: 18 (9)
Hold-ups for injury:
Italy vs Wales: 12
Scotland vs Ireland: 4
England vs France: 4
Substitutions/replacements:
Italy vs Wales: 12
Scotland vs Ireland: 6
England vs France: 15
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
(i) Italy vs Wales: 2
Italy: 0
Wales: 2
(ii) Scotland vs Ireland: 1
Scotland: 0
Ireland: 1
(iii) England vs France: 7
England: 5
France: 2
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
England: 5/1
Italy: 0/5
France: 2/0
Ireland: 1/3
Wales: 2/2
Scotland: 0/5
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 10/16
In Week 1 the ratio was 9/17
In Week 2 the ratio was 16/11
In Week 3 the ratio was 7/13
Some Totals
Tries per country
England: 5 + 2 + 1 + 5 = 14
France: 2 + 1 + 2 + 2 = 7
Ireland: 3 + 5 + 1 + 1 = 10
Italy: 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 1
Scotland: 1 + 1 + 2 + 0 = 4
Wales: 4 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 8
Penalty goals per country
England: 1 + 0 + 2 + 1 = 4
France: 1 + 5 + 3 + 0 = 9
Ireland: 3 + 1 + 2 + 4 = 10
Italy: 2 + 3 + 1 + 5 = 11
Scotland: 2 + 2 + 3 + 5 = 12
Wales: 2 + 6 + 3 + 2 = 13
Penalties conceded per country
England: 14 + 12 + 16 + 13 = 55
France: 10 + 7 + 10 + 12 = 39
Ireland: 2 + 12 + 8 + 11 = 33
Italy: 8 + 18 + 9 + 7 = 42
Scotland: 9 + 13 + 9 + 8 = 39
Wales: 10 + 7 + 11 + 11 = 39
Kicks per country
England: 42 +34 + 37 + 31 = 144
France: 29 + 36 + 26 + 22 = 113
Ireland: 39 + 17 + 42 + 37 = 135
Italy: 39 + 18 + 39 + 52 = 148
Scotland: 23 + 20 + 39 + 25 = 107
Wales: 22 + 40 + 21 + 44 = 127
Passes per country
England: 132 + 151 + 138 + 130 = 551
France: 174 + 127 + 141 + 191 = 533
Ireland: 103 + 157 + 120 + 160 = 540
Italy: 146 + 89 + 172 + 142 = 549
Scotland: 200 + 168 + 177 + 168 = 713
Wales: 188 + 166 + 113 + 114 = 601
Stoppages per match
England vs Italy: 77
Ireland vs France: 64
Scotland vs Wales: 73
Wales vs England: 62
France vs Scotland: 81
Italy vs Ireland: 90
France vs Wales: 69
Scotland vs Italy: 71
Ireland vs England: 78
Italy vs Wales: 73
Scotland vs Ireland: 71
England vs France: 92
Disciplinary sanctions per country
England: YYYYYYYY
France:
Ireland: Y
Italy: YY
Scotland: Y
Wales: YY
If you gave points for this section the position would look like this:
England: 8
France: 0
Ireland: 1
Italy: 2
Scotland: 1
Wales: 2
Referees for the various matches:
England vs Italy: Mark Lawrence (SA)
Ireland vs France: Nigel Owens (Wales)
Scotland vs Wales: Alain Rolland (Ireland)
France vs Scotland: George Clancy (Ireland)
Wales vs England: Jonathan Kaplan (South Africa)
Italy vs Ireland : Chris White (England)
France vs Wales: Mark Lawrence (South Africa)
Scotland vs Italy: Nigel Owens (Wales)
Ireland vs England: Craig Joubert (South Africa)
Italy vs Wales: Alan Lewis (Ireland)
Scotland vs Ireland: Jonathan Kaplan (South Africa)
England vs France: Stuart Dickinson (Australia)
