Some Six Nations statistics, Round 1
The Six Nations is under way. It started in unpromising fashion at Twickenham and then burst into life in Dublin and Edinburgh was lively as well. Perhaps if you gulp flat beer to start with, champagne is all the nicer!
We give some statistics from the three matches. We shall later discuss some law matters from the matches. We shall also try to accumulate some totals as we go along.
So you can see which team kicked most, which team passed most and so on.
Sanctions
There were four yellow cards. At Twickenham James Haskell was sent to the sin bin for tripping and Shane Geraghty for an air tackle. In Edinburgh Geoff Cross went off on a stretcher with a yellow card for an air tackle and Martyn Williams went to the sin bin for a deliberate knock-on, which seemed a pretty harmless offence in comparison with the ill deeds of Haskell, Geraghty and Cross.
Yellow cards
James Haskell (England) – tripping
Shane Geraghty (England) – air tackle
Geoff Cross (Scotland) – air tackle
Martyn Williams (Wales) – deliberate infringement
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
* = points conceded
(i) England vs Italy
Total number of penalties: 22
England: 14
Italy: 8
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
England:
Tackle/ruck: 5 (Sheridan, Noon, Steffon Armitage*,Haskell, Worsley)
Off-side: 5 (Borthwick, Ellis, Haskell, Kennedy, Easter)
Scrum: 1 (White)
Discipline: 3 (Easter – dangerous tackle; Haskell – trip; Geraghty – air tackle)
Italy:
Tackle/ruck: 5 (Castrogiovanni*, Dellapè, Masi, Parisse, Sole)
Off-side: 1 (Sole)
Scrum: 1 (Nieto)
Discipline: 1 (Reato – man without ball)
England missed a penalty kick at goal, Italy three..
(ii) Ireland vs France
Total number of penalties: 12
Ireland: 2
France: 10
Ireland – land of saints and scholars – conceded just two penalties and those two in the last four minutes of the match.
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Ireland:
Tackle/ruck: 2 (Hayes* 2)
France:
Tackle/Ruck: 8 (Faure* 2, Dusautoir* 2, Tillous-Borde, Jauzion, Heymans*, Kayser)
Off-side: 1 (Tillous-Borde)
Scrum: 1 (Faure)
Ireland missed two penalty kicks at goal.
(iii) Scotland vs Wales
Total number of penalties: 19
Scotland: 9
Wales: 10
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Scotland:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Taylor* 2, Hogg, Southwell, Hamilton*, Gray, Jacobsen)
Scrum: 1 (Ford)
Discipline: 1 (Cross – air tackle)
Wales:
Tackle/ruck: 8 (Shane Williams, Dafydd Jones* 2, Powell* 2, Gough 2, Peel)
Scrum: 1 (Dickinson)
Discipline: 1 (Martyn Williams – deliberate knock-on)
Neither 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 Italy: 10/22 = 45%
Ireland vs France: 7/12 = 58%
Scotland vs Wales: 15/19 = 79%
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 Italy
England:
Line-outs: 9
Scrums: 7 (3 reset, 2 collapses, 1 free kick, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 3 (1 scrum, 1 mark, 1 line-out)
Drop-outs: 3
Italy:
Line-outs: 20 (5 lost, 2 free kicks)
Scrums: 5 (2 reset, 2 collapses, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 line-out, 1 mark)
Drop-outs: 2
(ii) Ireland vs France
Ireland:
Line-outs: 9 (1 free kick)
Scrums: 11 (4 reset, 4 collapses, 1 free kick, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 0
France:
Line-outs: 13 (1 lost, 2 quick)
Scrums: 9 (1 reset, 1 collapse)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 scrum, 1 line-out)
Drop-outs: 2
(iii) Scotland vs Wales
Scotland:
Line-outs: 10 (1 lost)
Scrums: 10 (7 reset, 5 collapses, 2 lost, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 mark, 1 scrum)
Drop-outs: 0
Wales:
Line-outs: 12 (2 lost, 2 quick)
Scrums: 10 (2 reset, 2 collapses, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
England vs Italy: 77
Ireland vs France: 64
Scotland vs Wales: 73
Using possession
Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:
England vs Italy: 317
Ireland vs France: 335
Scotland vs Wales: 407
Kicks per match
England vs Italy: 81
England: 42
Italy: 39
Ireland vs France: 68
Ireland: 39
France: 29
Scotland vs Wales: 45
Scotland: 23
Wales: 22
Passes per match:
England vs Italy: 278
England: 132
Italy: 146
Ireland vs France: 277
Ireland: 103
France: 174
Scotland vs Wales: 388
Scotland: 200
Wales: 188
Substitutions/replacements:
England vs Italy: 14
Ireland vs France: 11
Scotland vs Wales: 12
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
(i) England vs Italy: 6
England: 5
Italy: 1
(ii) Ireland vs France: 5
Ireland: 3
France: 2
(iii) Scotland vs Wales:
Scotland: 1
Wales: 4
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Scotland: 1/2
England: 5/1
Wales: 4/2
France: 2/1
Italy: 1/2
Ireland: 3/3
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 16/11
Some Totals
Tries per country
England: 5
France: 2
Ireland: 3
Italy: 1
Scotland: 1
Wales: 4
Penalty goals per country
England: 1
France: 1
Ireland: 3
Italy: 2
Scotland: 2
Wales: 2
Kicks per country
England: 42
France: 29
Ireland: 39
Italy: 39
Scotland: 23
Wales: 22
Passes per country
England: 132
France: 174
Ireland: 103
Italy: 146
Scotland: 200
Wales: 188
