Stats: Australia vs France
Australia played France in Brisbane, the last of the major mid-winter tour matches from the north. It produced Australia's biggest win ever over France. We give some statistice.
Mid-winter Sanctions
The only recipient this week was Benjamin Boyet of France for a dangerous tackle of the spear variety. But the match also produced citings with suspension. Renaud Boyoud and Imanol Boyoud of France were suspended for three weeks each.
Recipients on mid-winter tours
Yellow cards:
CJ van der Linde (South Africa) - fighting
Richard Hibbard (Wales) - fighting
Andy Sheridan (England) - tackle infringement
Mike Tindall (England) - tackle infringement
Felipe Contepomi (Argentina) - fighting
Mike Tindall (England) - tackle infringement
Carlo Del Fava (Italy) - dangerous tackle
Juan Gómez (Argentina) - fighting
Rodrigo Roncero (Argentina) - fighting
Benjamin Boyet (France) - dangerous tackle
Cited and Suspended
Imanol Harinordoquy (France) - punching
Renaud Boyoud (France) - punching
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
Australia vs France
Total number of penalties: 18
Australia: 6
France: 12
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
Australia:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Baxter, Hoiles, Hugh McMeniman)
Off-side: 2 (Mumm*, Waugh)
Discipline: 1 (Horwill - fighting)
France:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Harinordoquy* 2, Palisson*, Ouedraogo*, Tillous-Borde, Chabal, Picamoles)
Off-side: 1 (Ouedraogo*)
Scrum: 1 (Lecouls)
Discipline: 3 (Chabal - collapsing maul; Boyet - dangerous tackle; Chabal - +10)
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:
Australia vs France: 10/18
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.
Australia vs France
Australia:
Line-outs: 10
Scrums: 9 (2 resets, 1 collapse, 1 lost, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 2 (marks)
Drop-outs: 0
France:
Line-outs: 11 (1 lost)
Scrums: 15 (4 reset, 4 collapses, 2 lost)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 0
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Australia vs France: 72
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
Australia vs France: 5
Australia: 4
France: 1
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Australia: 4/4
France: 1/1
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 5/5