Stats: June Tests, Week 2
There are four matches for which we give statistics this week – New Zealand vs Ireland, Australia vs England, South Africa vs France and Argentina vs Scotland as the Northern Hemisphere invades the Southern Hemisphere.
The statistics for the scrums in Australia are appalling.
Sanctions
Red Card
Jamie Heaslip (Ireland) – kneeing opponent in the head – suspended for five weeks.
Yellow cards:
Ronan O’Gara (Ireland) – playing opponent without the ball
Ma’afu (Australia) – repeated scrum infringements
Flippie van der Merwe (South Africa) – deliberate infringement
Dimitri Yachvili (France) – deliberate infringement
Juan Leguizamón (Argentina) – repeated tackle infringements
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
(I) New Zealand vs Ireland
Total number of penalties: 15
New Zealand: 10
Ireland: 5
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
New Zealand:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Read & McCaw, Vito, Read)
Offside: 3 (Rokocoko, Cruden, Stanley)
Scrum: 1 (Tialata)
Discipline: 3 (Owen Franks – obstruction; Stanley – diving on player on the ground; De Malmanche – swinging arm)
Ireland:
Tackle/ruck: 2 (Buckley*, Tuohy)
Discipline: 3 (Heaslip – knee to head twice; O’Gara – man without ball; Healy – man without ball)
New Zealand kicked the only penalty at goal.
Tackles/Penalties
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 5/15
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.
New Zealand vs Ireland
New Zealand:
Line-outs: 11 (3 quick)
Scrums: 3 (1 collapse)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 2
Ireland:
Line-outs: 10 (1 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 5 (3 reset, 4 collapses, 2 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 1
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 52
This is a remarkably low number.
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
New Zealand: 9
Ireland: 4
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
New Zealand: 9/1
Ireland: 4/0
(ii) Australia vs England
Total number of penalties: 19
Australia: 12
England: 7
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
Australia:
Tackle/ruck: 2 (Ma’afu)
Scrum: 10 (Daley 4, Ma’afu** 4, Brown – hands, Slipper*)
England:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Easter 2, Haskell, Lawes*)
Offside: 2 (Palmer, Chuter*)
Scrum: 1 (Payne)
Each 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:
Australia vs England: 6/19
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:
Line-outs: 11 (1 lost)
Scrums: 9 (2 reset, 9 collapses, 1 free kick, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 1
England:
Line-outs: 14 (1 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 16 (9 reset, 23 collapses, 1 free kick, 2 penalty tries, 7 penalties)
Free-kicks: 3 (1 scrum, 2 marks)
Drop-outs: 1
This is an appalling scrum statistic – surely unacceptable at any level of rugby.
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 84
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
Australia: 3
England: 2
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Australia: 3/2
England: 2/1
(iii) South Africa vs France
Total number of penalties: 27
South Africa: 10
France: 17
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
South Africa:
Tackle/ruck: 5 (Habana, Potgieter, Matfield, De Villiers, Pienaar)
Offside: 2 (Burger, Januarie)
Scrum: 2 (BJ Botha)
Discipline: 1 (BJ Botha – obstruction)
France:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Clerc 2, Poitrenaud*, Nallet, Marty, Rougerie, Pierre)
Offside: 2 (Szarzewski, Pierre)
Scrum: 3 (Domingo, Poux* 2)
Discipline: 5 (Dusautoir* – man without ball; Marty – high tackle; Parra – throwing ball away; ?? – man without ball; Yachvili – throwing ball away)
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:
South Africa: vs France: 12/27
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.
South Africa:
Line-outs: 13
Scrums: 11 (2 reset, 1 free kick, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 mark, 1 scrum)
Drop-outs: 0
France:
Line-outs: 11 (3 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 11 (6 reset, 4 collapses, 1 free kick, 2 penalties, 1 wheel)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 0
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 84
(iv) Argentina vs Scotland
Total number of penalties: 18
Argentina: 13
Scotland: 5
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
Argentina:
Tackle/ruck: 9 (Albacete, Roncero* 2, Scelzo, Leguizamon* 2, Ayerza, Contepomi*, Gonzalez)
Offside: 4 (Contepomi*, Scelzo, Albacete, Lalanne)
Scotland:
Tackle/ruck: 2 (Jacobsen, Lamont)
Scrum: 2 (Ford*, Jacobsen)
Discipline: 1 (Strokosch* – air tackle)
Scotland missed three penalty kicks at goal.
Tackles/Penalties
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties:
Argentina vs Scotland: 11/18
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.
Argentina vs Scotland
Argentina:
Line-outs: 8 (2 lost, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 8 (3 reset, 4 collapses, 3 free kicks, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 3 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 3
Scotland:
Line-outs: 10 (1 skew)
Scrums: 10 (1 reset, 2 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 2 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 0
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 68
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
Argentina vs Scotland:
Argentina: 2
Scotland: 0
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Argentina: 2/2
Scotland: 0/6
