Statistics - RWC, Day 16
There were first wins for two teams in their final match of the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Samoa beat the USA and Georgia beat Namibia, both matches played in the rain after all the good weather the tournament has enjoyed. We give stats from both matches.
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 were two yellow cards, both in the match between Samoa and the USA – Tasi Mounga of the USA and Silao Vaisola Sefo of Samoa.
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
Tasi Mounga (USA) – tackle infringement
Silao Vaisola Sefo (Samoa) – tackling man without the ball
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)Georgia vs Namibia
We are missing three minutes in the second half – from 48th to 51st minute.
Total number of penalties: 22
Georgia: 11
Namibia: 11
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
Georgia:
Tackle/ruck: 5 (Urushadze, Mamuka Gorgodze, Irakli Giorgadze 2, Kopaliani, Udesiani)
Off-side: 2 (Chkhaidze, Zirakashvili)
Discipline: 3 (Urushadze – collapsing maul; Datunashvili – collapsing maul; Khinchagashvili – lifting legs; )
Namibia:
Tackle/ruck: 6 (Powell 2, Du Plessis*, Nieuwenhuis 2, Van Zyl)
Off-side: 1 (Redelinghuys)
Scrum: 1 (Visser)
Discipline: 3 (Burger – punching; Nieuwenhuis – high tackle; Nieuwenhuis – swinging arm)
Georgia missed two penalty kicks at goal, Namibia one.
Tackles/Penalties
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 11/22
Georgia vs Namibia:
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.
Georgia vs Namibia
Georgia:
Line-outs: 12 (1 lost, 3 skew)
Scrums: 7 (2 reset, 1 collapse)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 line-out, 1 scrum)
Drop-outs: 2
Namibia:
Line-outs: 24 (7 lost, 1 quick, 2 free kicks)
Scrums: 10 (2 resets, 1 collapse, 1 lost, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 3 (1 line-out, 2 marks)
Drop-outs: 3.
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Georgia vs Namibia: 88
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
Georgia vs Namibia:
Georgia: 3
Namibia: 0
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Georgia: 3/3
Namibia: 0/0
(ii) Samoa vs USA
Total number of penalties: 15
Samoa: 8
USA: 7
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
Samoa:
Tackle/ruck: 1 (Purdie*)
Off-side: 1 (Sititi)
Scrum: 2 (Back Five, Johnston)
Discipline: 3 (Purdie – late tackle; Fuimaono-Sapolu – man without ball; Sefo – man without ball)
USA:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Hercus, Sika, Mounga)
Off-side: 1 (Stanfill)
Discipline: 3 (Undetermined – pulling jersey; Stanfill – foul play; Parker – late push)
USA missed a penalty kick at goal.
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties:
Samoa vs USA: 4/15
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.
Samoa vs USA
Samoa:
Line-outs: 12 (2 lost)
Scrums: 10 (3 reset, 1 collapse, 1 lost, 1 free kick, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 line-out, 1 scrum)
Drop-outs: 2
USA:
Line-outs: 12 (3 lost, 2 skew, 2 free kicks)
Scrums: 10 (6 reset, 6 collapses, 1 free kick, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 5 (2 scrums, 1 mark, 1 line-out, 1 + 10)
Drop-outs: 1
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Samoa vs USA: 78
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
Samoa vs USA:
Samoa: 3
USA: 2
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Samoa: 3/2
USA: 2/3
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
Georgia vs Namibia: 11 + 11 = 22
Samoa vs USA: 8 + 7 = 15
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
Georgia vs Namibia: 3 + 0 = 3
Samoa vs USA: 3 + 2 = 5
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
Georgia vs Namibia: 88
Samoa vs USA: 78
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 + 11 = 25
Ireland: 5 + 8 + 14 = 28
Italy: 8 + 8 + 10 = 26
Japan: 6 + 6 + 9 + 8 = 29
Namibia: 14 + 5 + 11 + 11 = 41
New Zealand: 3 + 5 + 5 = 13
Portugal: 14 + 10 + 10 + 8 = 42
Romania: 15 + 7 + 5 = 27
Samoa: 13 + 12 + 9 + 8 = 42
Scotland: 8 + 10 + 8 = 26
South Africa: 5 + 5 + 10 = 20
Tonga: 13 + 10 + 9 = 32
USA: 9 + 9 + 7 = 25
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 + 2 = 10
France: 0 + 13 + 2 = 15
Georgia: 0 + 1 + 3 = 4
Ireland: 5 + 2 + 0 = 7
Italy: 2 + 2 + 3 = 7
Japan: 0 + 3 + 2 + 2 = 7
Namibia: 2 + 1 + 0 + 0 = 3
New Zealand: 11 + 16 + 6 = 33
Portugal: 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 4
Romania: 2 + 0 + 2 = 4
Samoa: 1 + 0 + 1 + 3 = 5
Scotland: 7 + 6 + 0 = 13
South Africa: 8 + 3 + 4 = 15
Tonga: 3 + 1 + 3 = 7
USA: 1 + 2 + 2 = 5
Wales: 5 + 1 + 11 = 17
