Some Six Nations Stats - Week 1
We shall, as in the past give some statistics from the three Six Nations matches on the weekend, mainly about getting possession.
We shall keep some running totals from the five rounds of competition.
Sanctions
Here we will record serious sanctions which warrant red cards, yellow cards and citings with suspension.
There were no red cards in the first weekend and no citings, which may be a surprise to Andrew Henderson of Scotland who gave every impression of headbutting Damien Traille of France and was penalised for it on the television match official’s report.
Yellow cards:
Santiago Dellape (Italy) – punching
Simon Easterby (Ireland) – tackle infringement, his fourth in the match
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
* = points conceded
(i) Ireland vs Italy
Total number of penalties: 19
Ireland: 11
Italy: 8
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Ireland:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Easyterby* 4, Kearney, Hayes*)
Off-side: 2 (Dempsey, O’Callaghan)
Scrum: 2 (Easterby, Hayes)
Discipline: 1 (O’Kelly – line-out obstruction)
Italy:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Canavosio, Travagli, Mirco Bergamasco** 2)
Off-side: 1 (Bortolami)
Discipline: 3 (Travagli – stamping; Dellape – punching; Parisse = playing player in the air in a line-out)
Italy missed a penalty kick at goal.
(ii) Scotland vs France
Total number of penalties: 17
Scotland: 10
France: 7
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Scotland:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Walker, Jacobsen, Barclay, Brown)
Scrum: 1 (Murray*)
Discipline: 5 (Henderson – headbutt; Barclay – deliberate knock-on; Murray” – not 10m; Hines – line-out obstruction; White – late tackle)
France:
Tackle/Ruck: 4 (Dusautoir, Vermeulen, Faure, Mela)
Scrum: 2 (Faure & Servat*, Mas)
Discipline: 1 (Jacquet – high tackle)
Scotland missed two penalty kicks at goal; France missed a penalty kick at goal.
(iii) England vs Wales
Total number of penalties: 14
England: 7
Wales: 7
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
England:
Tackle/ruck: 5 (Haskell* 2, Rees, Wilkinson, Balshaw*)
Discipline: 2 (Shaw – air tackle; Sheridan – air tackle)
Wales:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Ryan Jones, Popham, Marek Jones)
Off-side: 1 (Ryan Jones)
Discipline: 3 (Martyn Williams – obstruction; Adam Jones – obstruction inb line-out; Duncan Jones & Wyn-Jones – barging in line-out)
England 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:
Ireland vs Italy: 11/18 = 61%
Scotland vs France: 8/17 = 47%
England vs Wales: 8/14 = 57%
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) Ireland vs Italy
Ireland:
Line-outs: 20 (2 lost, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 8 (1 reset, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 1
Italy:
Line-outs: 17 (1 penalty)
Scrums: 9 (2 reset, 2 collapses, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 3 (1 line-out, 1 mark, 1 scrum)
Drop-outs: 1
(ii) Scotland vs France
Scotland:
Line-outs: 12 (2 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 10 (1 reset, 5 collpases, 3 penalties)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 2
France:
Line-outs: 11 (2 lost, 2 quick, 1 penalty)
Scrums: 10 (4 reset, 3 collpases, 1 lost)
Free-kicks: 2 (2 marks, 1 +10)
Drop-outs: 1
(iii) England vs Wales
England:
Line-outs: 9 (1 quick, 1 penalty)
Scrums: 5 (5 reset, 6 collpases, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 0
Wales:
Line-outs: 14 (2 lost, 1 penalty)
Scrums: 12 (4 reset, 6 collpases, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 scrum, 1 +10)
Drop-outs: 2
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Ireland vs Italy: 82
Scotland vs France: 70
England vs Wales: 64
Tackle/ruck/maul per match:
Ireland vs Italy: 185
Scotland vs France: 147
England vs Wales: 144
Kicks per match
Ireland vs Italy: 65
Ireland: 32
Italy: 33
Scotland vs France: 48
Scotland: 23
France: 25
England vs Wales: 60
England: 33
Wales: 27
Passes per match:
Ireland vs Italy: 221
Ireland: 115
Italy: 106
Scotland vs France: 285
Scotland: 130
France: 155
England vs Wales: 184
England: 97
Wales: 87
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.)
Ireland vs Italy: 13 (2)
Scotland vs France: 13 (4)
England vs Wales: 8 (3)
Hold-ups for injury:
Ireland vs Italy: 9
Scotland vs France: 2
England vs Wales: 8
Substitutions/replacements:
Ireland vs Italy: 8
Scotland vs France: 10
England vs Wales: 11
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
(i) Ireland vs Italy:
Ireland: 1
Italy: 1
(ii) Scotland vs France:
Scotland: 0
France: 3
(iii) England vs Wales:
England: 1
Wales: 2
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
England: 1/3
Ireland: 1/ 3
Wales: 2/4
France: 3/2
Italy: 1/2
Scotland: 0/1
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 8/15
