Statistics - RWC, Day 14
There were two matches on this day – two on one-sided matches in which Australia beat Fiji 55-12 and New Zealand beat Scotland 40-0.
Apparently both Fiji and Scotland fielded weakened sides in preparation for crunch matches ahead, against Wales for Fiji and against Italy for Scotland.
Scotland are the third team to fail to score at this year’s World Cup.
There was some silly colour arrangement for the New Zealand-Scotland match. Both sides had jerseys of big patches – New Zealand’s in black and grey, Scotland in navy blue and white. Both sides had dark shorts. It may have been fashionable but it was also confusing.
The day will soon be with us when rugby will advertise a match as being between full-strength sides – or at least unweakened sides.
We also give some Rugby World Cup stats accumulatively.
Sanctionary Cards
Carl Hayman of New Zealand became the first recipient of a yellow card. He was not the only one.
Sunday was a day of rugby virtue – no sanctionary cards.
Recipients of red cards so far
Hale T Pole (Tonga) – foul play, suspended for one match.
Jacques Nieuwenhuis (Namibia) – dangerous tackle, suspended for one match
Recipients of yellow cards so far
Carl Hayman (New Zealand) – punching
Salvatore Perugini (Italy) – air tackle
Vahafolau Esikia (USA) – tackle infringement
Lawrence Dallaglio (England) – tackle infringement
Paul Emerick (USA) – dangerous tackle
Jo?o Uva (Portugal) – tackle infringement
Vilimoni Delasau (Fiji) – dangerous tackle
Alexandru Manta (Romania) – maul infringement
Drew Mitchell (Australia) – dangerous tackle
Nathan Sharpe (Australia) – tackle infringement
David Wallace (Ireland) – deliberate knock-on
Epeli Taione (Tonga) – tackle infringement
Toma Toke (Tonga) – dangerous tackle
Marco Bortolami (Italy) – punching
Paul O’Connell (Ireland) – persistent infringement at a maul
Damien Traille (France) – twice stopping a tapped penalty within 10 metres
Francois Steyn (South Africa) – fighting
Joseph Vaka (Tonga) – fighting
Bryan Habana (South Africa) – tackle infringement
Citing with suspension
Phil Vickery (England) – trip, suspended for two weeks
Paul Emerick (USA) – dangerous tackle, suspended for five weeks
Schalk Burger (South Africa) – dangerous tackle, suspended for four weeks
Alfie Vaeluaga (Samoa) – dangerous tackle, suspended for one week.
Juan Severino Somoza (Portugal) – head-butting, four weeks
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
(I)Australia vs Fiji
Total number of penalties: 12
Australia: 8
Fiji: 4
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
Australia:
Tackle/ruck: 6 (Giteau, Palu, Vickerman, Gregan, Latham. McMenamin)
Scrum: 1 (Shepherdson)
Discipline: 1 (Gregan – dissent or at least giving the referee unwanted advice)
Fiji:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Lutui*, Qiodravu*, Railomo)
Off-side: 2 (Kauhenga*)
Discipline: 3 (Qiodravu – obstruction)
Neither 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: 7/19
Australia vs Fiji:
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.
Australia vs Fiji
Australia:
Line-outs: 13
Scrums: 10 (3 reset, 1 collapse)
Free-kicks: 3 (2 line-outs, 1 scrum)
Drop-outs: 0
Fiji:
Line-outs: 21 (7 lost, 1 skew, 2 free kicks)
Scrums: 8 (4 reset, 4 collapses, 2 lost, 1 wheel, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 0
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Australia vs Fiji: 77
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
Australia vs Fiji:
Australia: 7
Fiji: 2
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Australia: 7/3
Fiji: 2/0
(ii) New Zealand vs Scotland
Total number of penalties: 13
New Zealand: 5
Scotland: 8
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
New Zealand:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Williams, Kelleher 2, Hore)
Off-side: 1 (Thorne)
Scotland:
Tackle/ruck: 2 (MacLeod, Rory Lawson)
Off-side: 1 (Smith*)
Scrum: 3 (Dickinson, Kerr 2)
Discipline: 2 ( Scott Lawson – man without ball; Hamilton – air tackle)
Neither side missed a penalty kick at goal.
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties:
New Zealand vs Scotland: 6/13
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.
New Zealand vs Scotland
New Zealand:
Line-outs: 12 (2 quick)
Scrums: 17 (6 reset, 7 collapses, 1 free kick, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1
Scotland:
Line-outs: 10 (2 lost, 1 reset, 1 quick)
Scrums: 18 (5 reset, 8 collapses, 2 free kicks, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 3 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 1
The number of scrums was inordinately hard. They were also often difficult. New Zealand put the ball into seven five-metre scrums. Scotland put the ball into five scrums five metres from their own line.
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
New Zealand vs Scotland: 87
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
New Zealand vs Scotland:
New Zealand: 6
Scotland: 0
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
New Zealand: 6/2
Scotland: 0/0
Totals per match
Penalties
France vs Argentina: 8+ 9 = 17
New Zealand vs Italy: 3 + 8 = 11
Australia vs Japan: 6 + 6 = 12
England vs USA: 10 + 9 = 19
Wales vs Canada: 6 + 9 = 15
South Africa vs Samoa: 5 + 13 = 18
Scotland vs Portugal: 8 + 14 = 22
Ireland vs Namibia: 5 + 14 = 19
Argentina vs Georgia: 6 + 9 = 15
USA vs Tonga: 8 + 15 = 23
Fiji vs Japan: 12 + 6 = 18
Italy vs Romania: 8 + 15 = 23
England vs South Africa: 9 + 5 = 14
Portugal vs New Zealand: 10 + 5 = 15
Wales vs Australia: 5 + 11 = 16
Ireland vs Georgia: 8 + 5 = 13
Canada vs Fiji: 11 + 10 = 21
Samoa vs Tonga: 12 + 10 = 22
France vs Namibia: 4 + 5 = 9
Scotland vs Romania: 10 + 7 = 17
Italy vs Portugal: 10 + 10 = 20
Wales vs Japan: 5 + 9 = 14
France vs Ireland: 11 + 14 = 25
South Africa vs Tonga: 10 + 9 = 19
England vs Samoa: 9 + 9 = 18
Argentina vs Namibia: 5 + 11 = 16
New Zealand vs Scotland: 5 + 8 = 13
Tries
France vs Argentina: 0 + 1 = 1
New Zealand vs Italy: 11 + 2 = 13
Australia vs Japan: 13 + 0 = 13
England vs USA: 3 + 1 = 4
Wales vs Canada: 5 + 3 = 8
South Africa vs Samoa: 8 + 1 = 9
Scotland vs Portugal: 8 + 1 = 9
Ireland vs Namibia: 5 + 2 = 7
Argentina vs Georgia: 4 + 0 = 4
USA vs Tonga: 2 + 3 = 5
Fiji vs Japan: 4 + 3 = 7
Italy vs Romania: 2 + 2 = 4
England vs South Africa: 0 + 3 = 3
Portugal vs New Zealand: 1 + 16 = 17
Wales vs Australia: 1 + 4 = 5
Ireland vs Georgia: 2 + 1 = 3
Canada vs Fiji: 1 + 4 = 5
Samoa vs Tonga: 0 + 1 = 1
France vs Namibia: 13 + 1 = 14
Scotland vs Romania: 6 + 0 = 6
Italy vs Portugal: 3 + 1 = 4
Wales vs Japan: 11 + 2 = 13
France vs Ireland: 2 + 0 = 2
South Africa vs Tonga: 4 + 3 = 7
England vs Samoa: 4 + 1 = 5
Argentina vs Namibia: 9 + 0 = 9
New Zealand vs Scotland: 6 + 0 = 6
Stoppages
France vs Argentina: 71
New Zealand vs Italy: 58
Australia vs Japan: 60
England vs USA: 81
Wales vs Canada: 80
South Africa vs Samoa: 82
Scotland vs Portugal: 83
Ireland vs Namibia: 87
Argentina vs Georgia: 77
USA vs Tonga: 83
Fiji vs Japan: 71
Italy vs Romania: 87
England vs South Africa: 91
Portugal vs New Zealand: 72
Wales vs Australia: 79
Ireland vs Georgia: 89
Canada vs Fiji: 71
Samoa vs Tonga: 90
France vs Namibia: 69
Scotland vs Romania: 90
Italy vs Portugal: 87
Wales vs Japan: 72
France vs Ireland: 100
South Africa vs Tonga: 72
England vs Samoa: 68
Argentina vs Namibia: 80
New Zealand vs Scotland: 87
Penalties conceded per team
Argentina: 9 + 6 + 5 = 21
Australia: 6 + 11 = 17
Canada: 9 + 11 = 20
England: 10 + 9 + 9 = 28
Fiji: 12 + 10 = 22
France: 8 + 4 + 11 = 23
Georgia: 9 + 5 = 14
Ireland: 5 + 8 + 14 = 28
Italy: 8 + 8 + 10 = 26
Japan: 6 + 6 + 9 = 21
Namibia: 14 + 5 + 11 = 30
New Zealand: 3 + 5 + 5 = 13
Portugal: 14 + 10 + 10 = 34
Romania: 15 + 7 = 22
Samoa: 13 + 12 + 9 = 34
Scotland: 8 + 10 + 8 = 26
South Africa: 5 + 5 + 10 = 20
Tonga: 13 + 10 + 9 = 32
USA: 9 + 9 = 18
Wales: 6 + 5 + 5 = 16
Tries per team
Argentina: 1 + 4 + 9 = 14
Australia: 13 + 4 = 17
Canada: 3 + 1 = 4
England: 3 + 0 + 4 = 7
Fiji: 4 + 4 = 8
France: 0 + 13 + 2 = 15
Georgia: 0 + 1 = 1
Ireland: 5 + 2 + 0 = 7
Italy: 2 + 2 + 3 = 7
Japan: 0 + 3 + 2 = 5
Namibia: 2 + 1 + 0 = 3
New Zealand: 11 + 16 + 6 = 33
Portugal: 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
Romania: 2 + 0 = 2
Samoa: 1 + 0 + 1 = 2
Scotland: 7 + 6 + 0 = 13
South Africa: 8 + 3 + 4 = 15
Tonga: 3 + 1 + 3 = 7
USA: 1 + 2 = 3
Wales: 5 + 1 + 11 = 17
