Stats: November Tests, Week 1
November has started with several Tests, including matches between the SANZAR countries and the Six Nations counties. We give some stats from Week 1.
Unfortunately our stats for the scrums in the Wales-Australia game are not as detailed as usual.
Again we than Fika for their help.
Results
Australia vs Wales, 25-16
New Zealand vs England, 26-16
South Africa vs Ireland, 23-21
Sanctions
There were yellow cards, a citing and some non-citings which raised eyebrows.
Keven Mealamu (New Zealand) was cited for a headbutt in the match. It was surprising that Dylan Hartley was not cited for his charge into Richie McCaw.
Yellow cards
Jerome Kaino (New Zealand) – tackle infringement
Bryan Habana (South Africa) – deliberate knock-on close to his line.
Tom Shanklin (Wales) – early tackle
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
* = points conceded
(i) England vs New Zealand
Total number of penalties: 24
England: 9
New Zealand: 15
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
England:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Croft, Thompson* 3, Tindall, Cole*, Sheridan*)
Off-side: 1 (Easter)
Discipline: 1 (Armitage* – high tackle)
New Zealand:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (McCaw 2, Nonu, Woodcock, Read*, Williams, Kaino)
Off-side: 2 (Thorn, Kaino*)
Scrum: 5 (Owen Franks 3, Woodcock 2)
Discipline: 1 (Carter – man without ball)
Each side missed a penalty kick at goal.
(ii) Ireland vs South Africa
Total number of penalties: 20
Ireland: 9
South Africa: 11
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Ireland:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Brian O’Driscoll, Healy, Heaslip, Wallace)
Off-side: 3 (Brian O’Driscoll*, Court, Heaslip)
Scrum: 1 (Buckley*)
Discipline: 1 (O’Callaghan – air tackle)
South Africa:
Tackle/Ruck: 5 ( Matfield, Smith, Spies, Jannie du Plessis 2)
Off-side: 4 (Habana*, Steyn*, Pienaar, Smith)
Scrum: 1 (Bismarck du Plessis)
Discipline: 1 (Smith – dissent)
Ireland missed a penalty kick at goal, South Africa two.
(iii) Wales vs Australia
Total number of penalties: 24
Wales: 11
Australia: 13
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Wales:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Warburton 3, Shanklin, Thomas, Davies 2)
Offside: 3 (Warburton, Rees, Biggar*)
Discipline: 1 (Shanklin* – early tackle)
Australia:
Tackle/ruck: 2 (Sharpe, Barnes)
Offside: 1 (Faingaa*)
Scrum: 7 (Alexander 3, Faingaa*, Robinson 3
Discipline: 3 (Chisholm* – air tackle; Beale – dangerous tackle; Cooper – dangerous tackle)
It is an inordinately high number of penalties at the scrum.
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:
England vs New Zealand: 14/24 = 58%
Ireland vs South Africa: 9/20 = 45%
Wales vs Australia: 10/24 = 41%
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) England vs New Zealand
England:
Line-outs: 15 (1 lost, 1 quick, 2 skew)
Scrums: 5 (5 reset, 5 collapses, 4 penalties)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 scrum, 1 mark)
Drop-outs: 1
New Zealand:
Line-outs: 10 (3 quick)
Scrums: 12 (3 reset, 2 collapses, 2 free kicks, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 2
(ii) Ireland vs South Africa
Ireland:
Line-outs: 11 (5 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 6 (2 reset, 2 free kicks, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 3 (2 scrums, 1 line-out)
Drop-outs: 1
South Africa:
Line-outs: 16 (1 free kick)
Scrums: 10 (2 reset, 2 collapses, 2 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 4 (2 scrums, 2 marks)
Drop-outs: 1
(iii) Wales vs Australia
There were 17 scrums in this match. Australia were penalised 7 times in those scrums. Two scrums were reset, both on Wales’s ball. Nobody won a tighthead.
Wales:
Line-outs: 14 (2 lost, 1 skew)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1
Australia:
Line-outs: 13 (1 quick)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 2
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
England vs New Zealand: 80
Ireland vs South Africa: 78
Wales vs Australia: 73
Ball-in-Play time
England vs New Zealand: 18 minutes 22 seconds + 16 minutes 26 seconds = 34 minutes 48 seconds
Ireland vs South Africa: 14 minutes 52 seconds + 18 minutes 46 seconds = 33 minutes 36 seconds
Wales vs Australia: 18 minutes 3 seconds + 18 minutes 19 seconds = 36 minutes 22 seconds
Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:
England vs New Zealand: 164
Ireland vs South Africa: 157
Wales vs Australia: 203
Kicks per match
England vs New Zealand: 38
England: 16
New Zealand: 22
Ireland vs South Africa: 56
Ireland: 26
South Africa: 30
Wales vs Australia: 50
Wales: 27
Australia: 23
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.)
England vs New Zealand: 15 (6)
Ireland vs South Africa: 18(5)
Wales vs Australia: 17 (7)
Hold-ups for injury:
England vs New Zealand: 1
Ireland vs South Africa: 4
Wales vs Australia: 5
Substitutions/replacements:
England vs New Zealand: 4
Ireland vs South Africa: 7
Wales vs Australia: 6
TMO Decisions
England vs New Zealand: 3
Ireland vs South Africa: 0
Wales vs Australia: 2
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
(i) England vs New Zealand: 3
England: 1
New Zealand: 2
(ii) Ireland vs South Africa: 4
Ireland: 2
South Africa: 2
(iii) Wales vs Australia: 4
Wales: 1
Australia: 3
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
England: 1/3
South Africa: 2/3
New Zealand: 2/4
Ireland: 2/3
Wales: 1/3
Australia: 3/2
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 11/18
