Statistics: June Tests, Week 4

 
As the June window closes on the Tests we have the statistics from four Tests over the weekend - New Zealand vs Wales, Australia vs Ireland, South Africa and the one with the surprise results, Argentina vs France.

Results

Australia vs Ireland, 22-15
New Zealand vs Wales, 29-10
South Africa vs Italy, 55-11
Argentina vs France, 41-13

Sanctions

Sanctionary Cards

There were three in Hamilton, one in Buenos Aires and none in the other two matches.

Recipients

Sam Whitelock (New Zealand) - man without ball
Lee Byrne (Wales) - dangerous tackle
Gavin Thomas (Wales) - punching
Florian Fritz (France) - tackle infringement

Penalties conceded

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

(i) New Zealand vs Wales

Total number of penalties: 23

New Zealand: 10
Wales: 13

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

New Zealand:

Tackle/ruck: 5 (Jane*, Donnelly, Kaino, McCaw, Thomson)
Scrum: 4 (Tialata 3, Owen Franks)
Discipline: 1 (Whitelock - man without ball)

The penalty against Whitelock was reversed because Gavin Thomas's retaliation was worse.

Wales:

Tackle/ruck: 5 (Gavin Thomas*, Halfpenny, Davies, Roberts, Alun-Wyn Jones)
Offside: 2 (Gavin Thomas, Phillips*)
Scrum: 1 (James)
Discipline: 5 (Phillips - + 10; James - collapsing maul; Byrne*; Jonathan Thomas* - armless tackle; Gavin Thomas - punch)

New Zealand missed penalty kick at goal, Wales two.

Tackles/Penalties

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 10/22

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.

New Zealand:

Line-outs: 12 (1 lost, 2 skew)
Scrums: 4 (1 reset, 2 collapses, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 3 (1 mark, 2 scrums)
Drop-outs: 1

Wales:

Line-outs: 8 (1 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 11 (4 reset, 9 collapses, 2 free kicks, 4 penalties)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 3

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 70

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

New Zealand: 2
Wales: 1

Tries/penalties scored

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

New Zealand: 2/4
Wales: 1/1

(ii)  Australia vs Ireland

Total number of penalties: 23

Australia: 13
Ireland: 10`

 The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Australia:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Chisholm*, Cooper, Mumm, Slipper)
Offside: 3 (Cooper*, Several, Undetermined*)
Scrum: 3 (Daley 2, Slipper)
Discipline: 3 (Mitchell* - man without ball; )'Connor - air tackle; Mumm - obstruction)

Ireland:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Jennings* 2, O'Leary, Varley)
Off-side: 2 (Sexton, Cronin*)
Scrum: 2 (Healy 2)
Discipline: 2 (Brian O'Driscoll* - knock into touch; Mick O'Driscoll* - high tackle)

Australia missed two penalty kicks at goal.

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 8/23

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:

Line-outs: 11
Scrums: 9 (2 reset, 5 collapses, 1 free kick, 3 penalties)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 mark, 1 scrum)
Drop-outs: 1

Ireland:

Line-outs: 15 (2 lost, 1 reset, 1 quick, 1 penalty)
Scrums: 10 (2 reset, 4 collapses, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 2

 Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 78

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Australia: 2
Ireland: 0

Tries/penalties scored

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

Australia: 2/4
Ireland: 0/5

(iii)  South Africa vs Italy

Total number of penalties: 22

South Africa: 10
Italy: 12

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

South Africa:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Louw*, Fourie, BJ Botha, Ralepelle)
Offside: 2 (Van der Merwe, Several at 10m)
Scrum: 2 (Du Plessis, Steenkamp)
Discipline: 2 (Burger* - high tackle;; Undetermined - obstruction)

Italy:

Tackle/ruck: 7 (Bortolami 2, Vosawai* 2, Picone*, Masi, Canale)
Offside: 3 (Perugini, Picone, Several at 10m)
Scrum: 1 (Sbaraglini)
Discipline: 1 (Bortolami - man without ball)

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: 11/22

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.

South Africa:

Line-outs: 13 (1 free kick)
Scrums: 2
Free-kicks: 2 (1 mark, 1 line-out)
Drop-outs: 1

Italy:

Line-outs: 13 (4 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 10 (4 reset, 2 collapses, 3 penalties)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 0

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 67

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

South Africa: 7
Italy: 1

Tries/penalties scored

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

South Africa: 7/2
Italy: 1/2

(iv)  Argentina vs France

Total number of penalties: 24

Argentina: 15
France: 9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Argentina:

Tackle/ruck: 6 (Campos*, Fessia* 2, Amorosino, Leguizamón, Creevy)
Offside: 2 (Roncero, Fernandez Lobbe)
Scrum: 5 (Roncero 2, Ledesma, Figallo, Ayerza)
Discipline: 2 (Albacete - obstruction; Figallo - obstruction)

France:

Tackle/ruck: 5 (Nallet, Szarzewski* 2, Fritz*, Lamboley)
Offside: 1 (Papé)
Scrum: 1 (Mas)
Discipline: 2 (Trinh-Duc - dangerous tackle; Nallet* - armless tackle)

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: 11/24

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.

Argentina:

Line-outs: 8
Scrums: 4 (1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 4 (3 scrums, 1 mark)
Drop-outs: 1

France:

Line-outs: 13 (2 lost, 1 skew, 2 quick)
Scrums: 9 (3 reset, 6 collapses, 1 lost, 3 free kicks, 4 penalties)
Free-kicks:  0
Drop-outs: 0

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):  66

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Argentina: 4
France: 1

Tries/penalties scored

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

Argentina: 4/4
France: 1/2