Statistics: Six Nations, Round 5

We give some statistics from the matches. You can find out who was penalised most this weekend and over the whole tournament, who kicked most, who passed least, who scored most/fewest tries, which game had most action – that sort of thing.

Results, Round 5

The teams that won in Round 4 lost in Round 5.

France vs Wales, 28-9
Ireland vs England, 24-8
Scotland vs Italy, 21-8

Sanctions

Citing

Gonzalo Canale (Italy) – dangerous tackle of the tip variety.

Yellow Cards

Nick Youngs of England got a yellow card for his second bit of cheating. penalised for trying to knock the arm of the Irish scrumhalf he then threw the ball into the crowd to avoid a quick Irish throw-in.

James Hook (Wales) – dangerous tackle of the tip variety.

Penalties conceded

In this section we record the times a team was penalised.

* = points conceded

(i) Scotland vs Italy

Total number of penalties: 23

Scotland: 14
Italy: 9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

Scotland:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Lamont* 3, Ford, Danielli*, Strokosch, Barclay)
Off-side: 2 (Hines, Jackson)
Scrum: 1 (Ford & Jacobsen)
Discipline: 4 (Gray – collapsing maul; Lamont – obstruction; Hines – man without the ball; Jacobsen – not 10)

Italy:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Burton* 2, Zanni, Sgarbi, Castrogiovanni, Dal Fava, Bergamasco)
Off-side: 1 (Canale)
Discipline: 1 (Lo Cicero – stamping)

Each side missed a penalty kick at goal.

(ii) Ireland vs England

Total number of penalties: 15

Ireland: 6
England: 9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

Ireland:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (O’Brien, O’ Connell*, Heaslip)
Scrum: 3 (Healy*, Court 2)

England:
Tackle/Ruck: 1 (Palmer)
Off-side: 2 (Flood* et al, Undetermined)
Scrum: 1 (Hartley)
Discipline: 4 (Ashton* – high tackle; Youngs – cheating; Youngs – throwing the ball away in touch; Wood – high tackle)

England missed a penalty kick at goal.

(iii) France vs Wales

Total number of penalties: 25

France: 12
Wales: 13

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

France:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Parra, Harinordoquy, Bonnaire*, Nallet*, Domingo 2, Marty)
Offside: 1 (Palisson)
Scrum: 1 (Ducalcon)
Discipline: 3 (Nallet – obstruction; Bonnaire – + 10; Dusautoir – air tackle))

Wales:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (James*, Adam Jones, Lydiate*, Rees, Davies*, Ryan Jones, Hibbard)
Scrum: 2 (James, Yapp)
Discipline: 4 (Alun-Wyn Jones – high tackle; Hook – man without ball; Hook dangerous tackle))

Each 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:

Scotland vs Italy: 14/23 = 61%
Ireland vs England: 4/15 = 45%
France vs Wales: 14/25 = 27%

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) Scotland vs Italy

Scotland:
Line-outs: 7 (1 lost)
Scrums: 5 (2 reset, 1 collapse, lost, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1

Italy:
Line-outs: 20 (7 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 4 (2 reset, 1 collapse)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 0

(ii) Ireland vs England

Ireland:
Line-outs: 12 (2 lost, 1 quick, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 13 (3 reset, 2 collapses, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1

England:
Line-outs: 11 (1 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 6 (3 reset, 2 collapses, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 2 (line-out, scrum)
Drop-outs: 0

(iii) France vs Wales

France:
Line-outs: 14 (2 lost)
Scrums: 5 (2 reset, 4 collapses, 1 free kick, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1

Wales:
Line-outs: 10 (1 skew, 2 quick)
Scrums: 2 (1 collapse, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 2

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):

Scotland vs Italy: 62
Ireland vs England: 65
France vs Wales: 61

Ball in Play

These are provided by Jan Taljaard.

Scotland vs Italy (Walsh):
17 minutes 20 seconds + 21 minutes 28 seconds = 38 minutes 48 seconds

France vs Wales (Joubert):
18 minutes 26 seconds + 20 minutes 05 seconds = 38 minutes 31 seconds

Ireland vs England (Lawrence):
13 minutes 54 seconds + 19 minutes 19 seconds = 33 minutes 13 seconds

Tackles/rucks/mauls per match

Scotland vs Italy: 192
Ireland vs England: 138:
France vs Wales: 170

Kicks per match

Scotland vs Italy: 42

Scotland: 29
Italy: 13

Ireland vs England: 42

Ireland: 27
England: 15

France vs Wales: 44

France: 24
Wales: 20

It’s a dubious statistic that the teams that kicked more than their opponents won.

Passes per match

Scotland vs Italy: 361

Scotland: 172
Italy: 189

Ireland vs England: 277

Ireland: 130
England: 147

France vs Wales: 175

France: 124
Wales: 151

The teams that did more passing lost!

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

(i) Scotland vs Italy: 3

Scotland: 2
Italy: 1

(ii) Ireland vs England: 3

Ireland: 2
England: 1

(iii) France vs Wales: 3

France: 3
Wales: 0

Tries/penalties scored

This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:

France: 3/3
Scotland: 2/3
Wales: 0/3
England: 1/1
Italy: 1/1
Ireland: 2/4

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 9/15

In Week 1 the ratio was 16/17
In Week 2 it was 15/16
In Week 3 it was 8/17
In Week 4 it was 7/21

Turnovers won

Scotland vs Italy:

Scotland:
Italy:

France vs Wales:

France:
Wales:

Ireland vs England:

Ireland:
England:

Tackles made

Scotland vs Italy: 246

Scotland: 143
Italy: 103

Ireland vs England: 162

Ireland: 88
England: 74

France vs Wales: 220

France: 132
Wales: 88

Tackles missed

Scotland vs Italy: 13

Scotland: 7
Italy: 6

Ireland vs England: 12

Ireland: 4
England: 8

France vs Wales: 16

France: 11
Wales: 5

Some Totals

Tries per country

England: 2 + 8 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 13
France: 4 + 1 + 0 + 2 + 3 = 10
Ireland: 1 + 3 + 3 + 1 + 2 = 10
Italy: 1 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 1 = 6
Scotland: 3 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 2 = 6
Wales: 1 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 0 = 6

Penalties conceded per country

England: 9 + 15 + 8 + 8 + 9 = 49
France: 6 + 7 + 7 + 11 + 12 = 43
Ireland: 13 + 10 + 12 + 8 + 6 = 49
Italy: 5 + 15 + 5 + 8 + 9 = 42
Scotland: 8 + 10 + 4 + 11 + 14 = 47
Wales: 8 + 12 + 14 + 10 + 13 = 57

Kicks per country

England: 21 + 16 +18 + 21 + 15 = 91
France: 19 + 16 + 21 + 18 + 24 = 98
Ireland: 21 + 10 + 24 + 42 + 27 = 124
Italy: 19 + 15 + 21 + 20 + 13 = 88
Scotland: 22 + 25 + 24 + 28 + 29 = 128
Wales: 25 + 27 + 26 + 36 + 20 = 134

Passes per country

England: 147 + 234 + 157 + 217 + 147 = 902
France: 169 + 152 + 150 + 164 + 124 = 759
Ireland: 193 + 126 + 144 + 185 130 = 778
Italy: 124 + 148 + 191 + 133 + 189= 685
Scotland: 203 + 199 + 192 + 123 + 172 = 889
Wales: 185 + 107 + 150 + 132 + 151 = 725

Yellow cards

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

Week 3

Alan Jacobsen (Scotland) – scrum infringement

Week 4

John Barclay (Scotland) – tackle infringement

Week 5

Nick Youngs (England) – cheating
James Hook (Wales) – dangerous tackle of the tip variety

All the 2011 Results

England vs Wales in Cardiff, 26-19
Ireland vs Italy in Rome, 13-11
France vs Scotland, 34-21

England vs Italy, 59-13
Wales vs Scotland, 24-6 in Edinburgh
France vs Ireland, 25-22 in Dublin

Wales vs Italy, 24-16 in Rome
England vs France, 17-9
Ireland vs Scotland, 21-18 in Edinburgh

Italy vs France, 22-21
Wales vs Ireland, 19-13
England vs Scotland, 22-16

Scotland vs Italy, 21-8
Ireland vs England, 24-8
France vs Wales, 28-9