Some Six Nations stats, Week Two
We give some statistics from the matches. There are lots of interesting questions to get answered: who scored most tries or fewest tries or most penalties or fewest penalties; who has been most penalised; who had the ball in their possession most; who kicked most and who passed most; which players were penalised and conceded points. That sort of thing.
Results, Week 2
England vs Italy, 59-13
France vs Ireland, 25-22
Wales vs Scotland, 24-6
Sanctions
Yellow Cards: Sadly, there were yellow cards again. For Wales it meant playing with 13 men for a while – not a good idea.
This week’s yellow cards were for Martín Castrogiovanni of Italy whose manners on the field were poor, and Bradley Davies and Lee Byrne of Wales.
Yellow cards so far:
Week 1
Louis Deacon (England) – infringement at a tackle – slapping the ball out of the scrumhalf’s hands. It was his team’s fourth penalty at a tackle.
Craig Mitchell (Wales) – tackle infringement. It was his team’s fourth infringement at a tackle
Denis Leamy (Ireland) – tackle infringement. It was his team’s sixth infringement at a tackle.
Week 2
Martín Castrogiovanni (Italy): deliberately knocking the ball away to prevent a tap kick
Bradley Davies (Wales): deliberate offence at a tackle – kicking the ball away.
Lee Byrne (Wales): high tackle
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
* = points conceded
(i) England vs Italy
Total number of penalties: 30
England: 15
Italy: 15
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
England:
Tackle/ruck: 8 (Haskell 2, Hape* 2, Easter, Wood, Flood, Foden)
Scrum: 1 (Cole)
Discipline: 6 (Easter* – obstruction; Shaw – obstruction; Banahan – obstruction; Shaw -armless tackle; Thompson – obstruction; Shaw – +10)
Italy:
Tackle/ruck: 10 (Masi, Zanni*, Del Fava 2, Perugini, Sgarbi, Bergamasco 2, Barbieri, Dellapè)
Off-side: 1 (several at kick)
Discipline: 4 (Canale – +10; Parisse – air tackle; Dal Fava*- dissent; Castrogiovanni – deliberate offence)
England missed a penalty kick at goal.
(ii) Scotland vs Wales
Total number of penalties: 22
Scotland: 10
Wales: 12
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Scotland:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Ford** 2, Barclay*, Brown, Lamont*, Ansbro, Walker)
Off-side: 1 (Hines)
Scrum: 1 (Murray)
Wales:
Tackle/Ruck: 8 (Davies, Alun-Wyn Jones*, Lydiate, Thomas, Warburton, Yapp 2, Turnbull)
Scrum: 3 (Mitchell, James*, Yapp)
Discipline: 1 (Byrne – high tackle)
Each side missed a penalty kick at goal.
(iii) Ireland vs France
Total number of penalties: 17
Ireland: 10
France: 7
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Ireland:
Tackle/ruck: 6 (Wallace*, McFadden*, D’Arcy*, O’Callaghan*, O’ Connell*, O’Brien)
Offside: 1 (Best – at a maul)
Scrum: 3 (Ross 2, Court)
France:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Nallet, Pierre, Harinordoquy, Traille)
Off-side: 1 (Thion)
Scrum: 2 (Mas*, Undetermined
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:
England vs Italy: 18/30 = 60%
Scotland vs Wales: 15/22 = 68%
Ireland vs France: 10/17 = 59%
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) England vs Italy
England:
Line-outs: 11 (1 free kick)
Scrums: 2 (1 collapse)
Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)
Drop-outs: 1
Italy:
Line-outs: 12 (8 lost)
Scrums: 3 (1 reset, 2 collapses, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 0
The number of scrums in this match is remarkably low.
(ii) Scotland vs Wales
Scotland:
Line-outs: 9
Scrums: 4 (2 reset, 4 collapses, 2 penalties, 1 free kick, 1 lost)
Free-kicks: 2 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 1
Wales:
Line-outs: 9 (1 lost)
Scrums: 7 (4 reset, 6 collapses, 1 penalty, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 3 (2 marks, 1 scrum)
Drop-outs: 2
(iii) Ireland vs France
Ireland:
Line-outs: 9 (4 lost)
Scrums: 7 (2 reset, collapses, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 2 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 1
France:
Line-outs: 7 (1 lost)
Scrums: 13 (3 reset, 7 collapses, 3 penalties, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 0
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
England vs Italy: 62
Scotland vs Wales: 63
Ireland vs France: 63
Rucks/mauls per match:
England vs Italy: 170
Scotland vs Wales: 172
Ireland vs France: 156
Using Possession
Kicks per match
England vs Italy: 31
England: 16
Italy: 15
Scotland vs Wales: 52
Scotland: 25
Wales: 27
Ireland vs France: 26
Ireland: 10
France: 16
Passes per match:
England vs Italy: 380
England: 234
Italy: 146
Scotland vs Wales: 306
Scotland: 199
Wales: 107
Ireland vs France: 278
Ireland: 126
France: 152
Turnovers won
England vs Italy: 7
England: 1
Italy: 6
Scotland vs Wales: 2
Scotland: 1
Wales: 1
Ireland vs France: 5
Ireland: 4
France: 1
Tackles made
England vs Italy: 222
England: 81
Italy: 141
Scotland vs Wales: 220
Scotland: 83
Wales: 137
Ireland vs France: 194
Ireland: 108
France: 86
Tackles missed
England vs Italy: 11
England: 2
Italy: 9
Scotland vs Wales: 20
Scotland: 6
Wales: 14
Ireland vs France: 7
Ireland: 4
France: 3
Minutes in possession
England vs Italy: : 34 minutes 13 seconds
England: 21 minutes 51 seconds
Italy: 12 minutes 22 seconds
Scotland vs Wales: 31 minutes 20 seconds
Scotland: 17 minutes 47 seconds
Wales: 13 minutes 33 seconds
Ireland vs France: 37 minutes 47 seconds
Ireland: 23 minutes 11 seconds
France: 14 minutes 36 seconds
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
(i) England vs Italy: 9
England: 9
Italy: 1
(ii) Scotland vs Wales: 2
Scotland: 0
Wales: 2
(iii) Ireland vs France: 4
Ireland: 3
France: 1
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Ireland: 3/1
England: 8/1
France: 1/6
Wales: 2/4
Italy: 1/2
Scotland: 0/2
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 15/16.
In Week 1 the ratio was 16/17
Some Totals
Tries per country
England: 2 + 8 = 10
France: 4 + 1 = 5
Ireland: 1 + 3 = 4
Italy: 1 + 1 = 2
Scotland: 3 + 0 = 3
Wales: 1 + 2 = 3
Penalties per country
England: 9 + 15 = 24
France: 6 + 7 + 13
Ireland: 13 + 10 = 23
Italy: 5 + 15 = 20
Scotland: 8 + 10 = 18
Wales: 8 + 12 = 20
Kicks per country
England: 21 + 16 = 37
France: 19 + 16 = 35
Ireland: 21 + 10 = 31
Italy: 19 + 15 = 34
Scotland: 22 + 25 = 47
Wales: 25 + 27 = 52
Passes per country
England: 147 + 234 = 381
France: 169 + 152 = 321
Ireland: 193 + 126 = 319
Italy: 124 + 148 = 272
Scotland: 203 + 199 = 402
Wales: 185 + 107 = 292
