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)
