RWC, Day 9, Statistics

There was just one match on Day 9 of the 2007 Rugby World Cup - Scotland against Romania at Murrayfield, not an exhilarating match. We give some statistics of the match.

We give some Rugby World Cup stats accumulatively.

Sanctionary Cards

Carl Hayman of New Zealand became the first recipient of a yellow card. He was not the only one.

There was none in this match - not any sign of one.

Jacques Nieuwenhuis and Hale T Pole each appeared before a disciplinary committee after being sent off and were each suspended for a match.

Recipients of red cards so far

Hale T Pole (Tonga) - foul play

Jacques Nieuwenhuis (Namibia) - dangerous tackle, suspended for one match

Recipients of yellow cards so far

Carl Hayman (New Zealand) - punching

Salvatore Perugini (Italy) - air tackle

Vahafolau Esikia (USA) - tackle infringement

Lawrence Dallaglio (England) - tackle infringement

Paul Emerick (USA) - dangerous tackle

Jo?o Uva (Portugal) - tackle infringement

Vilimoni Delasau (Fiji) - dangerous tackle

Alexandru Manta (Romania) - maul infringement

Drew Mitchell (Australia) - dangerous tackle

Nathan Sharpe (Australia) - tackle infringement

David Wallace (Ireland) - deliberate knock-on

Epeli Taione (Tonga) - tackle infringement

Toma Toke (Tonga) - dangerous tackle

Citing with suspension

Phil Vickery (England) - trip, suspended for two weeks

Paul Emerick (USA) - dangerous tackle, suspended for five weeks

Schalk Burger (South Africa) - dangerous tackle, suspended for four weeks

Alfie Vaeluaga (Samoa) - dangerous tackle, suspended for one week.

Juan Severino Somoza (Portugal) - head-butting, four weeks

Scotland vs Romania

Penalties conceded

In this section we record the times a team was penalised.

Total number of penalties: 17

Scotland: 10

Romania: 7

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Scotland:

Tackle/ruck: 9 (Taylor 2, Hogg 2, Blair, White 2, Sean Lamont, Kerr)

Off-side: 1 (Hamilton)

Romania:

Tackle/ruck: 2 (Dumitras, Manta)

Off-side: 2 (Manta, Sirbu)

Discipline: 3 (Brezoianu - high tackle; Manta - + 10m; Balan - collapsing maul)

Romania missed a kick at goal.

Tackles/Penalties

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties:

Scotland vs Romania: 10/17

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.

Scotland vs Romania

Scotland:

Line-outs: 16 (2 lost)

Scrums: 12 (5 reset, 6 collapses, 2 free kicks, 2 lost)

Free-kicks: 0

Drop-outs: 2

Romania:

Line-outs: 23 (7 lost, 1 reset)

Scrums: 9 (2 reset, 2 collapses, 1 free kick)

Free-kicks: 3 (scrums)

Drop-outs: 0

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):

Scotland vs Romania: 90

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Scotland vs Romania:

Scotland: 6

Romania: 0

Tries/penalties scored

This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:

Scotland: 6/0

Romania: 0/0

Totals per match

Penalties

France vs Argentina: 8+ 9 = 17

New Zealand vs Italy: 3 + 8 = 11

Australia vs Japan: 6 + 6 = 12

England vs USA: 10 + 9 = 19

Wales vs Canada: 6 + 9 = 15

South Africa vs Samoa: 5 + 13 = 18

Scotland vs Portugal: 8 + 14 = 22

Ireland vs Namibia: 5 + 14 = 19

Argentina vs Georgia: 6 + 9 = 15

USA vs Tonga: 8 + 15 = 23

Fiji vs Japan: 12 + 6 = 18

Italy vs Romania: 8 + 15 = 23

England vs South Africa: 9 + 5 = 14

Portugal vs New Zealand: 10 + 5 = 15

Wales vs Australia: 5 + 11 = 16

Ireland vs Georgia: 8 + 5 = 13

Canada vs Fiji: 11 + 10 = 21

Samoa vs Tonga: 12 + 10 = 22

France vs Namibia: 4 + 5 = 9

Scotland vs Romania: 10 + 7 = 17

Tries

France vs Argentina: 0 + 1 = 1

New Zealand vs Italy: 11 + 2 = 13

Australia vs Japan: 13 + 0 = 13

England vs USA: 3 + 1 = 4

Wales vs Canada: 5 + 3 = 8

South Africa vs Samoa: 8 + 1 = 9

Scotland vs Portugal: 8 + 1 = 9

Ireland vs Namibia: 5 + 2 = 7

Argentina vs Georgia: 4 + 0 = 4

USA vs Tonga: 2 + 3 = 5

Fiji vs Japan: 4 + 3 = 7

Italy vs Romania: 2 + 2 = 4

England vs South Africa: 0 + 3 = 3

Portugal vs New Zealand: 1 + 16 = 17

Wales vs Australia: 1 + 4 = 5

Ireland vs Georgia: 2 + 1 = 3

Canada vs Fiji: 1 + 4 = 5

Samoa vs Tonga: 0 + 1 = 1

France vs Namibia: 13 + 1 = 14

Scotland vs Romania: 6 + 0 = 6

Stoppages

France vs Argentina: 71

New Zealand vs Italy: 58

Australia vs Japan: 60

England vs USA: 81

Wales vs Canada: 80

South Africa vs Samoa: 82

Scotland vs Portugal: 83

Ireland vs Namibia: 87

Argentina vs Georgia: 77

USA vs Tonga: 83

Fiji vs Japan: 71

Italy vs Romania: 87

England vs South Africa: 91

Portugal vs New Zealand: 72

Wales vs Australia: 79

Ireland vs Georgia: 89

Canada vs Fiji: 71

Samoa vs Tonga: 90

France vs Namibia: 69

Scotland vs Romania: 90

Penalties conceded per team

Argentina: 9 + 6 = 15

Australia: 6 + 11 = 17

Canada: 9 + 11 = 20

England: 10 + 9 = 19

Fiji: 12 + 10 = 22

France: 8 + 4 = 12

Georgia: 9 + 5 = 14

Ireland: 5 + 8 = 14

Italy: 8 + 8 = 16

Japan: 6 + 6 = 12

Namibia: 14 + 5 = 19

New Zealand: 3 + 5 = 8

Portugal: 14 + 10 = 24

Romania: 15 + 7 = 22

Samoa: 13 + 12 = 25

Scotland: 8 + 10 = 18

South Africa: 5 + 5 = 10

Tonga: 13 + 10 = 23

USA: 9 + 9 = 18

Wales: 6 + 5 = 11

Tries per team

Argentina: 1 + 4 = 5

Australia: 13 + 4 = 17

Canada: 3 + 1 = 4

England: 3 + 0 = 3

Fiji: 4 + 4 = 8

France: 0 + 13 = 13

Georgia: 0 + 1 = 1

Ireland: 5 + 2 = 7

Italy: 2 + 2 = 4

Japan: 0 + 3 = 3

Namibia: 2 + 1 = 3

New Zealand: 11 + 16 = 27

Portugal: 1 + 1 = 2

Romania: 2 + 0 = 2

Samoa: 1 + 0 = 1

Scotland: 7 + 6 = 13

South Africa: 8 + 3 = 11

Tonga: 3 + 1 = 4

USA: 1 + 2 = 3

Wales: 5 + 1 = 6