Some Six Nations statistics, Round 4
After a weekend which included the drab affair at Murrayfield and the scintillating affair at Stade de France, we give some statistics from the matches, including some total so that you see who scored most tries and who was penalised most.
Results
Scotland vs England, 15-15
Ireland vs Wales, 27-12
France vs Italy, 46-20
Sanctions
There were two yellow cards this week – Lee Byrne of Wales for a cynical infringement when he kicked the ball out of Tomas O’Leary’s hands and Gonzalo Garcia for a dangerous tackle.
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
* = points conceded
(i) Scotland vs England
Total number of penalties: 18
Scotland: 10
England: 8
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Scotland:
Tackle/ruck: 6 (Barclay*, Southwell, Hamilton*, Beattie, Jacobsen, Murray*)
Off-side: 2 (Kellock, Barclay*)
Scrum: 1 (Murray*)
Discipline: 1 (Scott Lawson – man without ball)
England:
Tackle/ruck: 6 (Cole*, Flutey, Haskell** 2, Payne, Cueto)
Off-side: 2 (Tait, Several)
Scotland side missed a penalty kick at goal, England two.
(ii) Ireland vs Wales
Total number of penalties: 26
Ireland: 16
Wales: 10
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Ireland:
Tackle/ruck: 9 (D’Arcy, Sexton*, O’DriscolAl 2, O’Leary, Healy, Wallace*, Heaslip*, Ferris)
Off-side: 4 (Healy* 2, Earls, Ferris, O’Driscoll)
Scrum: 2 (Hayes 2)
Discipline: 2 ()
Wales:
Tackle/Ruck: 5 (Jonathan Thomas, Byrne, Halfpenny, Charteris, Delve)
Off-side: 1 (Matthew Rees)
Scrum: 1 (Paul Jones)
Discipline: 3 (Roberts* – man without ball; Davies & Martyn Williams – obstruction; Byrne – throwing the ball away in touch)
Each side missed a penalty kick at goal.
(iii) France vs Italy
Total number of penalties: 24
France: 10
Italy: 14
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
France:
Tackle/ruck: 2 (Nallet, Harinordoquy)
Offside: 5 (Palisson, Mas, Poitrenaud, Dusautoir*, Marty*)
Discipline: 3 (Pierre – obstruction; Pierre – obstruction, Bonnaire – obstruction)
Italy:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Ghiraldini, Bortolami, Zanni, Masi)
Off-side: 5 (Garcia, Bortolami*, Sole, Ongaro, Derbyshire)
Scrum: 1 (Castrogiovanni)
Discipline: 4 (Bortolami* – man without ball; Bortolami – air tackle; Garcia – late tackle; Gower – man without ball; )
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:
Scotland vs England: 12/18 = 67%
Ireland vs Wales: 14/26 = 54%
France vs Italy: 6/24: 25%
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) Scotland vs England
Scotland:
Line-outs: 12 (2 quick, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 9 (6 reset, 6 collapses, 1 free kick, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 3 (1 scrum, 1 line-out, 1 mark)
Drop-outs: 3
England:
Line-outs: 9 (1 skew, 1 quick, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 6 (6 reset, 7 collapses, 1 penalties, 2 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 4 (1 scrum, 1 line-out, 2 marks)
Drop-outs: 2
The scrums, obviously, were a mess, especially the England scrum. One scrum took 2 minutes 42 seconds..
(ii) Ireland vs Wales
Ireland:
Line-outs: 9 (1 lost)
Scrums: 3 (1 reset, 2 collapses, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 3 (line-out, 2 marks)
Drop-outs: 1
Wales:
Line-outs: 17 (3 lost, 1 skew, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 3 (4 reset, 5 collapses, 1 lost, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 1
(iii) France vs Italy
France:
Line-outs: 10 (2 lost)
Scrums: 6 (1 reset, 2 collapses, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 3 (1 scrum, 2 marks)
Drop-outs: 0
Italy:
Line-outs: 16 (4 lost, 1 reset, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 7 (2 reset, 1 free kick, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 3 (scrum, line-out, mark)
Drop-outs: 3
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Scotland vs England: 73
Ireland vs Wales: 69
France vs Italy: 76
This the number of times the referee has to stop the match but does not take into account the delays in the match – as for scrums, when once scrum takes nearly three minutes, nor the amount of time the scrumhalf stands around directing players when the ball is available for use. It also does not include time taken for injuries and substitutions.
Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:
Scotland vs England: 191
Ireland vs Wales: 184
France vs Italy: 156
Kicks per match
Scotland vs England: 52
Scotland: 26
England: 26
Ireland vs Wales: 62
Ireland: 35
Wales: 25
France vs Italy: 53
France: 26
Italy: 27
Passes per match:
Scotland vs England: 309
Scotland: 179
England: 130
Ireland vs Wales: 296
Ireland: 109
Wales: 187
France vs Italy: 259
France: 166
Italy: 93
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
(i) Scotland vs England: 0
Scotland: 0
England: 0
(ii) Ireland vs Wales: 3
Ireland: 3
Wales: 0
(iii) France vs Italy: 8
France: 6
Italy: 2
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
France: 6/2
Scotland: 0/4
Italy: 2/2
Wales: 0/4
England: 0/5
Ireland: 3/3
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 12/20
Some Totals
Yellow Cards
Cian Healy (Ireland) – tackling a man without the ball
Scott Lawson (Scotland) – tackling man without the ball
Phil Godmin (Scotland) – late tackle
Martín Castrogiovanni (Italy) – tackle infringement
James Haskell (England) – tripping
Shane Geraghty (England) – air tackle
Alun-Wyn Jones (Wales) – tripping
Martyn Williams (Wales) – deliberate infringement
Morgan Parra (France) – deliberate knock-on
Lee Byrne (Wales) – deliberate infringement
Gonzalo Garcia (Italy) – dangerous tackle
Stoppages per match:
Ireland vs Italy: 78
England vs Wales: 83
Scotland vs France: 66
Wales vs Scotland: 69
France vs Ireland: 71
Italy vs England: 72
Wales vs France: 75
Italy vs Scotland: 72
England vs Ireland: 67
Scotland vs England: 73
Ireland vs Wales: 69
France vs Italy: 76
Tries per country
England: 3 + 1 + 1 + 0 = 5
France: 2 + 3 + 2 + 6 = 13
Ireland: 3 + 1 + 3 + 3 = 10
Italy: 1 + 0 + 1 + 2 = 4
Scotland: 0 + 2 + 0 + 0 = 2
Wales: 2 + 3 + 2 + 0 = 7
Penalties conceded per country
England: 10 + 12 + 6 + 8 = 36
France: 10 + 7 + 10 + 10 = 37
Ireland: 8 + 11 + 13 + 16 = 47
Italy: 10 + 11 + 11 + 14 = 46
Scotland: 5 + 13 + 10 + 10 = 38
Wales: 7 + 6 + 10 + 10 = 33
