Some Six Nations statistics, Round 5

The Six Nations has rushed to its thrilling end. Thirty matches, 2 400 minutes and it all came down to the last kick in the last minute.

We give some statistics from the matches. The totals will tell you who scored the most tries, who passed most, who kicked most, who was penalised the most, which match had fewest stoppages – that sort of thing. There will be some surprises. 

Results:

Italy vs France, 50-8
England vs Scotland, 26-12
Ireland vs Wales, 17-15

Sanctions

No yellow cards this week! Alleluia! It may be Lent but alleluia is appropriate.

Disciplinary sanctions

Yellow cards 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

Round 4
None

Round 5
None

Penalties conceded

In this section we record the times a team was penalised.

* = points conceded

(i) Italy vs France

Total number of penalties: 15

Italy:  6
France:  9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

Italy:
Tackle/ruck: 5 (McLean* 2, Canale, Dellapè, Marcato*)
Off-side: 1 (Bortolami*)

France:
Tackle/ruck: 5 (Bonnaire, Dusautoir, Barcella, Chabal, Servat)
Scrum: 1 (Barcella)
Discipline: 3 (Chabal – obstruction; Bonnaire* – obstruction; Médard – deliberate knock-on)

Italy missed a penalty kick at goal.

(ii) England vs Scotland

Total number of penalties: 17

England: 12
Scotland: 5

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

England:
Tackle/ruck: 8 (Sheridan, Ellis*, Tindall, Easter* 3, Shaw*, Hartley)
Scrum: 1 (Sheridan)
Discipline: 2 (Easter *- high tackle; Borthwick – air tackle; Worsley – obstruction)

Scotland:
Tackle/Ruck: 3 (Strokosch, Gray*, Danielli)
Discipline: 2 (Jason White – air tackle; Blair – high tackle)

Each side missed a penalty kick at goal. Scotland’s miss was a long-range effort by Phil Godman which fell just short.

(iii) Wales vs Ireland

Total number of penalties: 21

Wales: 5
Ireland: 16

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

Wales:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Adam Jones, Jenkins, Ryan Jones)
Discipline: 2 (Ryan Jones – trip; Gough – armless tackle)

Ireland:
Tackle/ruck: 11 (O’Leary 3, D’Arcy, Flannery, Leamy*, O’Driscoll, O’Callaghan, O’Connell, Hayes, Paddy Wallace)
Scrum: 1 (Horan)
Discipline: 4 (Bowe* – obstruction; O’Callaghan* – misbehaviour of a silly kind; Heaslip* – obstruction; Bowe – man without ball)

Each side 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 France: 10/15 = 67%
England vs Scotland: 10/17 = 59%
Wales vs Ireland: 14/21 = 67%

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 France

Italy:
Line-outs: 12 (2 lost)
Scrums: 5 (4 reset, 5 collapses, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 2

France:
Line-outs: 8 (2 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 7 (3 reset, 2 collapses)
Free-kicks:  0
Drop-outs:  6

(ii) England vs Scotland

England:
Line-outs: 11 (1 quick)
Scrums: 11 (6 reset, 4 collapses, 2 free kicks, 2 uncontested)
Free-kicks: 3 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 1

Scotland:
Line-outs: 14 (1 lost, 1 skew, 2 quick)
Scrums: 3 (1 reset, 1 collapse, 1 free kick, 1 uncontested)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 2

(iii) Wales vs Ireland

Wales:
Line-outs: 19 (7 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 6 (3 reset, 3 collapses)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 1

Ireland:
Line-outs: 10 (1 lost)
Scrums: 7 (3 reset, 3 collapses, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 0

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):

Italy vs France:  62
England vs Scotland:  58
Wales vs Ireland:  72

58 is remarkably low.

Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:

Italy vs France: 171
England vs Scotland: 204 
Wales vs Ireland:  167

Kicks per match

Italy vs France:  57

Italy:  32
France: 25

England vs Scotland:  54

England:  28
Scotland:  26

Wales vs Ireland: 66

Wales:  26
Ireland: 40

Passes per match:

Italy vs France: 297

Italy: 128
France: 169

England vs Scotland: 365

England:  238
Scotland:  127

Wales vs Ireland:  259

Wales:  132
Ireland: 127

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

(i) Italy vs France: 8

Italy:  1
France: 7

(ii) England vs Scotland: 3

England:  3
Scotland:  0

(iii) Wales vs Ireland: 2

Wales:  2
Ireland:  0

Tries/penalties scored

This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:

England: 2/3
France: 7/3
Ireland: 2/1
Italy: 1/1
Scotland: 4/0
Wales: 0/4

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 16/12

In Week 1 the ratio was 9/17
In Week 2 the ratio was  16/11
In Week 3 the ratio was 7/13
In week 4 the ratio was 10/16

Some Totals

Tries per country

England: 5 + 2 + 1 + 5 + 3 = 17
France: 2 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 7 = 14
Ireland: 3 + 5 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 12
Italy: 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 = 2
Scotland: 1 + 1 + 2 + 0 + 0 = 4
Wales: 4 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 0 = 8

Penalty goals per country

England: 1 + 0 + 2 + 1 = 4
France: 1 + 5 + 3 + 0 + 3 = 12
Ireland: 3 + 1 + 2 + 4 + 1 = 11
Italy: 2 + 3 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 1 = 13
Scotland: 2 + 2 + 3 + 5 + 4 = 16
Wales: 2 + 6 + 3 + 2 + 4 = 17

Penalties conceded per country

England: 14 + 12 + 16 + 13 + 12 = 67
France: 10 + 7 + 10 + 12 + 9 = 48
Ireland: 2 + 12 + 8 + 11 + 16 = 49
Italy: 8 + 18 + 9 + 7 + 6 = 48
Scotland: 9 + 13 + 9 + 8 + 5 = 44
Wales: 10 + 7 + 11 + 11 + 5 = 44

Kicks per country

England: 42 +34 + 37 + 31 + 28 = 172
France: 29 + 36 + 26 + 22 + 25 = 138
Ireland: 39 + 17 + 42 + 37 + 40 = 175
Italy: 39 + 18 + 39 + 52 + 32 = 180
Scotland: 23 + 20 + 39 + 25 + 26 = 133
Wales: 22 + 40 + 21 + 44 + 26 = 153

Passes per country

England: 132 + 151 + 138 + 130 + 238 = 789
France: 174 + 127 + 141 + 191 + 169 = 702
Ireland: 103 + 157 + 120 + 160 + 127 = 667
Italy: 146 + 89 + 172 + 142 + 128 = 677
Scotland: 200 + 168 + 177 + 168 + 103 = 816
Wales: 188 + 166 + 113 + 114 + 132 = 733

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
Italy vs France: 62
England vs Scotland: 58
Wales vs Ireland: 72

Most stoppages: 92
Fewest stoppages: 58

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 (South Africa)
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)
England vs Scotland: Marius Jonker (South Africa)
Italy vs France: Alain Rolland (Ireland)
Wales vs Ireland: Wayne Barnes (England)