Statistics - RWC, Day 15
There were two matches thrilling matches on this day – Canada and Japan drew when Japan scored a try in injury time and converted from far out. In the other match Romania came from behind to win when they scored a try with eight minutes to play.. We give some stats.
We also give some Rugby World Cup stats accumulatively.
Sanctions
Carl Hayman of New Zealand became the first recipient of a yellow card. He was not the only one.
There was a yellow card on this day – for Pat Riordan, the Candaian hooker for stanping.
There was also the suspension of Brian Lima, cited for a high tackle on Jonny Wilkinson – a sad end to the World Cup for a man who had been to five World Cups. Samoa has appealed aginst his sentence.
There was also the citing of Frans Steyn of South Africa for biting, though there was pohtographic evidence that Jospeh Vaka’s finger was at no stage near Steyn’s mouth but tucked into Steyn’s jersey as he pulled Steyn to ground. It may just be that the wrong player was cited. Steyn was exonerated – after a fashion.
Could a player be cited for false accusation?
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
Pat Riordan (Canada) – feet on player
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, reduced on appeal to two weeks
Alfie Vaeluaga (Samoa) – dangerous tackle, suspended for one week.
Juan Severino Somoza (Portugal) – head-butting, four weeks
Brian Lima (Samoa) – dangerous tackle, three weeks
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
(I)Canada vs Japan
Total number of penalties: 19
Canada: 11
Japan: 8
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
Canada:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Yukes, Burak, Smith)
Off-side: 4 (Undetermined, James, Thiel, Kleeberger)
Discipline: 4 (James – obstruction; Riordan – stamping; Culpan – late obstruction; Williams – hitting ball out of play)
Japan:
Tackle/ruck: 6 (Makiri, Robins, Ono, Miuchi, Onishi, O’Reilly)
Off-side: 1 (Matsubara)
Discipline: 1 (Loamanu – late obstruction)
Neither side kicked 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: 9/19
Canada vs Japan:
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.
Canada vs Japan
Canada:
Line-outs: 18 (2 lost, 1 skew, 2 free kicks)
Scrums: 13
Free-kicks: 2 (1 line-out, 1 scrum)
Drop-outs: 0
Japan:
Line-outs: 25 (4 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 13 (1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)
Drop-outs: 0
It is remarkable that not one scrum was reset.
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Canada vs Japan: 91
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
Canada vs Japan:
Canada: 2
Japan: 2
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Canada: 2/0
Japan: 2/0
(ii) Portugal vs Romania
Total number of penalties: 13
Portugal: 8
Romania: 5
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
Portugal:
Tackle/ruck: 2 (Jo?o Uva, Correia)
Off-side: 1 (Duarte Cardoso Pinto)
Scrum: 2 (Cordeiro 2)
Discipline: 3 (Goncalo Uva – man without ball; Coutinho – man without ball; Penalva – collpasing maul)
Romania:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Dimofte, Corodeanu, Socol*)
Off-side: 1 (Tonita)
Scrum: 1 (Balan)
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:
Portugal vs Romania: 5/13
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.
Portugal vs Romania
Portugal:
Line-outs: 17 (5 lost, 1 quick, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 15 (2 reset, 4 collapses, 2 lost, 1 wheel, 1 free kick, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 3 (1 mark, 1 line-out, 1 scrum)
Drop-outs: 1
Romania:
Line-outs: 25 (3 lost)
Scrums: 11 (1 collapse, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 2 (marks)
Drop-outs: 2
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Portugal vs Romania: 92
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
Portugal vs Romania:
Portugal: 1
Romania: 2
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Portugal: 1/1
Romania: 2/0
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
Canada vs Japan: 11 + 8 = 19
Portugal vs Romania: 8 + 5 = 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
Canada vs Japan: 2 + 2 = 4
Portugal vs Romania: 1 + 2 = 3
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
Canada vs Japan: 91
Portugal vs Romania: 92
Penalties conceded per team
Argentina: 9 + 6 + 5 = 21
Australia: 6 + 11 = 17
Canada: 9 + 11 + 11 = 31
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 + 8 = 29
Namibia: 14 + 5 + 11 = 30
New Zealand: 3 + 5 + 5 = 13
Portugal: 14 + 10 + 10 + 8 = 42
Romania: 15 + 7 + 5 = 27
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 + 2 = 6
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 + 2 = 7
Namibia: 2 + 1 + 0 = 3
New Zealand: 11 + 16 + 6 = 33
Portugal: 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 4
Romania: 2 + 0 + 2 = 4
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
