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Stats for three warm-up Tests

By
Tuesday 28 Aug 2007

These are statistics from three Tests played this past weekend – Ireland vs Italy, Scotland vs South Africa and Wales vs France.

We have already discussed two tries scored in the Ireland-Italy match and will later in the week discuss laws from some incidents.

There are eight clips of incidents on www.sareferees.co.za.

Sanctionary Cards

What a pleasure! There was none this week.

Penalties conceded

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

* = points conceded

(i) Ireland vs Italy

Total number of penalties: 14

Ireland: 5
Italy: 9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

Ireland:

Tackle/ruck: 2 (O’Callaghan & O’Connell, Dempsey)
Scrum: 1 (Horan)
Discipline: 2 (O’Gara* – not 10m; O’Callaghan – line-out obstruction)

Italy:

Tackle/ruck: 3 (Troncon, Canale, Perugini*)
Off-side: 1 (Galon)
Scrum: 2 (Castrogiovanni, Aguero)
Discipline: 4 (Ongaro* – not 10m; Bortolami – collapsing maul; Parisse – fighting; De Marigny – man without ball)

Ireland missed a penalty kick at goal.

(ii) Scotland vs South Africa

Total number of penalties: 20

Scotland: 10
South Africa: 10

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

Scotland:

Tackle/ruck: 7 (Dewey, Ford, Callam, Brown* 3, Walker)
Off-side: 1 (Henderson*)
Discipline: 2 (Jacobsen – man without ball; Hines – collapsing maul)

South Africa:

Tackle/Ruck: 5 (Steyn*, Burger 2, Du Randt, Habana)
Off-side: 2 (Du Preez, Burger)
Discipline: 3 (Bakkies Botha – air tackle; Undetermined – collapsing maul; Pietersen – deliberate knock-on)

South Africa missed a penalty kick at goal.

(iii) Wales vs France

Total number of penalties: 12

Wales: 8
France: 4

France coin ceded just one penalty in the second half.

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

Wales:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Martyn Williams*, Rhys Thomas* 2, Popham)
Scrum: 2 (Horsman* 2)
Off-side: 1 (Mark Jones)
Discipline: 1 (Undetermined – air tackle)

France:

Tackle/ruck: 3 (Mas, Betsen, Bruno)
Discipline: 1 (Heymans – 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:

Ireland vs Italy: 5/9 = 55%
Scotland vs South Africa: 12/20 = 60%
Wales vs France: 7/12 = 58%

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) Ireland vs Italy

Ireland:

Line-outs: 22 (2 free kicks, 1 penalty, 1 quick, 1 skew)
Scrums: 9 (3 collapses, 1 lost, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 3 (2 marks, 1 line-out
Drop-outs: 0

Italy:

Line-outs: 12 (1 free kick, 1 skew)
Scrums: 10 (6 reset, 10 collapses, 2 penalties, 1 lost)
Free-kicks: 2 (line-outs)
Drop-outs: 1

(ii) Scotland vs South Africa

Scotland:

Line-outs: 18 (1 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 13 (8 reset, 8 collapses)
Free-kicks: 3 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 2

South Africa:

Line-outs: 14 (1 free kick, 1 quick)
Scrums: 9 (2 reset, 2 collapses)
Free-kicks: 5 (1 line-out, 2 marks, 2 scrums)
Drop-outs: 3

(iii) Wales vs France

Wales:

Line-outs: 16 (1 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 12 (6 reset, 5 collapses, 2 free kicks, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 1

France:

Line-outs: 18 (3 lost, 1 skew, 1 penalty)
Scrums: 13 (2 reset, 2 collapses)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 0

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

Ireland vs Italy: 79
Scotland vs South Africa: 97
Wales vs France: 82

Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:

Ireland vs Italy: 169
Scotland vs South Africa: 173
Wales vs France: 186

Kicks per match

Ireland vs Italy: 62

Ireland: 27
Italy: 35

Scotland vs South Africa: 62

Scotland: 31
South Africa: 31

Wales vs France: 60

Wales: 32
France: 28

Advantage

Here we give the number of times in the match the referee allowed advantage. (The figure in brackets is the number times the advantage actually accrued.)

Ireland vs Italy: 15 (9)
Scotland vs South Africa: 17 (8)
Wales vs France: 16 (6)

Hold-ups for injury:

Ireland vs Italy: 9
Scotland vs South Africa: 6
Wales vs France: 12

Substitutions/replacements:

Ireland vs Italy: 7
Scotland vs South Africa: 11
Wales vs France: 12

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

(i) Ireland vs Italy:

Ireland: 2
Italy: 2

(ii) Scotland vs South Africa:

Scotland: 3
South Africa: 0

(iii) Wales vs France:

Wales: 1
France: 4

Tries/penalties scored

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

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

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 12/8

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