Stats: Six Nations, Round 1
We give some statistics from the first round of Six Nations matches. You can see who was penalised most and who was penalised least; who passed most, who passed least; who kicked most, who kicked least, who had possession longest, who tackled most and who missed most tackle, who had possession shortest, and so on.
The scrum stats are interesting – far, far fewer resets than usual, but a many penalties.
Results
England vs Wales, 26-19
Ireland vs Italy, 13-11
France vs Scotland, 34-21
Sanctions
Yellow Cards
There were yellow cards.
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.
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
* = points conceded
(i) Wales vs England
Total number of penalties: 17
Wales: 8
England: 9
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Wales:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Warburton* 2, Powell*, Mitchell 2, Byrne*, James)
Scrum: 1 (James)
England:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Sheridan, Foden, Haskell*, Deacon, Ashton*, Hape*, Wilson)
Scrum: 2 (Hartley, Wilson)
Wales missed two penalty kicks at goal.
(ii) Italy vs Ireland
Total number of penalties: 18
Italy: 5
Ireland: 13
Italy conceded no penalties in the second half.
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Italy:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Sole, Castrogiovanni, Sgarbi)
Discipline: 2 (Sgarbi – obstruction; Dellapè – obstruction)
Ireland:
Tackle/Ruck: 6 (O’Leary*, Healy, O’Callaghan, O’ Connell, O’Brien, Leamy)
Off-side: 1 (Wallace)
Scrum: 4 (Healy 3, Ross)
Discipline: 2 (O’Leary*, O’ Connell)
Italy missed a penalty kick at goal.
(iii) France vs Scotland
Total number of penalties: 14
France: 6
Scotland: 8
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
France:
Tackle/ruck: 1 (Servat)
Offside: 2 (Ducalcon, Guirado)
Scrum: 2 (Mas, Ducalcon)
Discipline: 1 (Harinordoquy – obstruction)
Scotland:
Tackle/ruck: 1 (Murray)
Off-side: 2 (Ansbro, Vernon)
Scrum: 4 (Murray 4)
Discipline: 1 (Kellock – collapsed maul)
France 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:
Wales vs England: 14/17 = 82%
Italy vs Ireland: 9/18 = 50%
France vs Scotland: 2/14 = 14%
The France-Scotland number is inordinately low.
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) Wales vs England
Wales:
Line-outs: 8 (1 lost)
Scrums: 8 (2 reset, 4 collapses, 1 lost, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 0
England:
Line-outs: 13 (1 lost)
Scrums: 6 (0 reset, 2 collapses, 2 penalties, 2 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 3 (2 scrums, 1 +10)
Drop-outs: 3
(ii) Italy vs Ireland
Italy:
Line-outs: 17 (1 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 10 (3 reset, 8 collapses, 4 penalties, 5 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 3 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 0
Ireland:
Line-outs: 9 (1 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 4 (0 reset, 1 collapses)
Free-kicks: 5 (3 marks, 2 scrums)
Drop-outs: 3
(iii) France vs Scotland
France:
Line-outs: 10 (1 lost, 1 skew, 1 penalty, 1 quick)
Scrums: 5 (2 reset, 5 collapses, 1 free kick, 2 penalties, 1 penalty try)
Free-kicks: 4 (2 scrums, 1 +10, 1 line-out)
Drop-outs: 2
Scotland:
Line-outs: 14 (3 lost, 1 free quick)
Scrums: 9 (1 reset, 5 collapses, 1 lost, 4 penalties, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 2
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Wales vs England: 60
Italy vs Ireland: 71
France vs Scotland: 60
Tackles/rucks/mauls per match
Wales vs England: 195
Italy vs Ireland: 192
France vs Scotland: 181
Kicks per match
Wales vs England: 46
Wales: 25
England: 21
Italy vs Ireland: 40
Italy: 19
Ireland: 21
France vs Scotland: 41
France: 19
Scotland: 22
Passes per match
Wales vs England: 232
Wales: 185
England: 147
Italy vs Ireland: 317
Italy: 124
Ireland: 193
France vs Scotland: 372
France: 169
Scotland: 203
Turnovers per match
Wales vs England: 7
Wales: 4
England: 3
Italy vs Ireland: 5
Italy: 1
Ireland: 4
France vs Scotland: 3
France: 1
Scotland: 2
Tackles per match
Wales vs England: 219
Wales: 93
England: 126
Italy vs Ireland: 206
Italy: 112
Ireland: 94
France vs Scotland: 220
France: 112
Scotland: 108
Tackles missed per match:
Wales vs England: 8
Wales: 3
England: 5
Italy vs Ireland: 10
Italy: 7
Ireland: 3
France vs Scotland: 39
France: 25
Scotland: 14
Minutes in possession per match:
Wales vs England: 29 minutes 28 seconds
Wales: 16 minutes 59 seconds
England: 12 minutes 29 seconds
Italy vs Ireland: 32 minutes 50 seconds
Italy: 16 minutes 56 seconds
Ireland: 15 minutes 54 seconds
France vs Scotland: 28 minutes 1 seconds
France: 16 minutes 55 seconds
Scotland: 11 minutes 6 seconds
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
(i) Wales vs England: 3
Wales: 1
England: 2
(ii) Italy vs Ireland: 2
Italy: 1
Ireland: 1
(iii) France vs Scotland: 7
France: 4
Scotland: 3
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
France: 4/1
Wales: 1/4
Scotland: 3/0
Ireland: 1/1
England: 2/4
Italy: 1/2
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 12/12
