Some Six Nations Stats - Week 2
Again two exciting Six Nations matches with great fightbacks in Paris and Rome. Again we give some stats about getting and using possession from the three matches.
The Irish statistic of conceding just one penalty in the whole match is remarkable.
In the second half of their match Italy were penalised only once.
Sanctions
Sanctions
Here we will record serious sanctions which warrant red cards, yellow cards and citings with suspension.
There was just one yellow card this weekend. The recipient was Nathan Hines of Scotland for striking an opponent.
There have been no red cards or citings in Six Nations so far.
Yellow cards so far:
Santiago Dellape (Italy) – punching
Simon Easterby (Ireland) – tackle infringement, his fourth in the match
Nathan Hines (Scotland) – striking an opponent.
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
* = points conceded
(i) Wales vs Scotland
Total number of penalties: 16
Wales: 10
Scotland: 6
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Wales:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Shanklin, Byrne 2, Evans & Thomas*)
Off-side: 3 (Evans & Adam Jones*, Phillips & Ryan Jones, Duncan Jones*)
Scrum: 1 (Duncan Jones*)
Discipline: 2 (Gough* – armless tackle; Deiniol Jones – collapsing maul)
Scotland:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Barclay*, Jacobsen, Hogg*)
Off-side: 1 (Jacobsen, Murray & Brown)
Scrum: 1 (Murray*)
Discipline: 1 (Hines – striking an opponent)
Neither side missed a penalty kick at goal.
(ii) France vs Ireland
Total number of penalties: 9
France: 8
Ireland: 1
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
France:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Heymans*, Ouedraogo*, Marty*)
Off-side: 1 (Servat)
Scrum: 2 (Brugnaut , Servat)
Discipline: 2 (Faure – collapsing maul; Clerc – dangerous tackle)
In addition Mas was found guilty of a scrum infringement for which a penalty try was awarded.
In addition
Ireland:
Tackle/Ruck: 1 (O’Kelly)
France missed a penalty kick at goal.
(iii) Italy vs England
Total number of penalties: 16
Italy: 6
England: 10
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Italy:
Tackle/ruck: 2 (Canale, Dal Fava*)
Scrum: 2 (Castrogiovanni*)
Off-side: 1 (Masi)
Discipline: 1 (Dal Fava* – air tackle)
England:
Tackle/ruck: 6 (Haskell 2, Stevens*, Vainikolo*, Easter, Kay)
Scrum: 2 (Haskell, Payne*)
Discipline: 2 (Shaw – collapsing maul; Easter – line-out obstruction)
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:
Wales vs Scotland: 7/16 = 44%
France vs Ireland: 4/9 = 44%
Italy vs England: 8/16 = 50%
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) Wales vs Scotland
Wales:
Line-outs: 13 (2 skew)
Scrums: 8 (2 reset, 3 collapses, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 0
Scotland:
Line-outs: 19 (3 lost, 2 quick, 1 penalty)
Scrums: 9 (4 reset, 5 collapses, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 0
(ii) France vs Ireland
France:
Line-outs: 8 (2 lost)
Scrums: 11 (7 reset, 6 collapses, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 0
Ireland:
Line-outs: 17 (3 lost)
Scrums: 7 (4 reset, 6 collapses, 1 penalty, 1 penalty try)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 4
The scrums were bad. 18 scrums, 11 resets, 12 collapses, 2 penalties and a penalty try.
(iii) Italy vs England
Italy:
Line-outs: 17 (5 lost, 1 reset)
Scrums: 10 (7 reset, 4 collapses, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)
Drop-outs: 1
England:
Line-outs: 11 (1 skew, 1 reset, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 6 (4 reset, 5 collapses, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 2 (marks)
Drop-outs: 1
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Wales vs Scotland: 73
France vs Ireland: 68
Italy vs England: 78
Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:
Wales vs Scotland: 190
France vs Ireland: 206
Italy vs England: 150
Kicks per match
Wales vs Scotland: 63
Wales: 32
Scotland: 31
France vs Ireland: 47
France: 24
Ireland: 23
Italy vs England: 49
Italy: 24
England: 25
Passes per match:
Wales vs Scotland: 172
Wales: 131
Scotland: 41
France vs Ireland: 292
France: 118
Ireland: 174
Italy vs England: 241
Italy: 158
England: 83
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.)
Wales vs Scotland: 16 (6)
France vs Ireland: 9 (4)
Italy vs England: (12 (5))
Hold-ups for injury:
Wales vs Scotland: 4
France vs Ireland: 5
Italy vs England: 4
Substitutions/replacements:
Wales vs Scotland: 9
France vs Ireland: 6
Italy vs England: 7
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
(i) Wales vs Scotland: 3
Wales: 3
Scotland: 0
(ii) France vs Ireland: 6
France: 4
Ireland: 2
(iii) Italy vs England: 3
Italy: 1
England: 2
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Italy: 1/4
Wales: 3/3
England: 2/3
Ireland: 2/3
Scotland: 0/5
France: 4/0
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 12/18
In Week 1 the ratio was 16/17
Some Totals
Tries per country
England: 1 + 2 = 3
France: 3 + 4 = 7
Ireland: 1 + 2 = 3
Italy: 1 + 1 = 2
Scotland: 0 + 0 = 0
Wales: 2 + 3 = 5
Penalties per country
England: 7 + 10 = 17
France: 7 + 8 = 15
Ireland: 11 + 1 = 12
Italy: 8 + 6 = 14
Scotland: 10 + 6 = 16
Wales: 7 + 10 = 17
Kicks per country
England: 33 + 25 = 58
France: 25 + 24 = 49
Ireland: 32 + 23 = 55
Italy: 33 + 24 = 57
Scotland: 23 + 31 = 54
Wales: 27 + 32 = 59
Passes per country
England: 97 + 83 = 180
France: 155 + 118 = 273
Ireland: 115 + 174 = 289
Italy: 106 + 158 = 264
Scotland: 130 + 41 = 171
Wales: 87 + 131 218
Stoppages per match (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Ireland vs Italy: 82
Scotland vs France: 70
England vs Wales: 64
Wales vs Scotland: 73
France vs Ireland: 68
Italy vs England: 78
