We give some statistics from the matches. You can find out who was penalised most this weekend and over the whole tournament, who kicked most, who passed least, who scored most/fewest tries, which game had most action - that sort of thing.

We give some statistics from the matches. You can find out who was penalised most this weekend and over the whole tournament, who kicked most, who passed least, who scored most/fewest tries, which game had most action - that sort of thing.

Results, Round 5

The teams that won in Round 4 lost in Round 5.

France vs Wales, 28-9
Ireland vs England, 24-8
Scotland vs Italy, 21-8

Sanctions

Citing

Gonzalo Canale (Italy) - dangerous tackle of the tip variety.

Yellow Cards

Nick Youngs of England got a yellow card for his second bit of cheating. penalised for trying to knock the arm of the Irish scrumhalf he then threw the ball into the crowd to avoid a quick Irish throw-in.

James Hook (Wales) - dangerous tackle of the tip variety.

Penalties conceded

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

* = points conceded

(i) Scotland vs Italy

Total number of penalties: 23

Scotland: 14
Italy: 9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

Scotland:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Lamont* 3, Ford, Danielli*, Strokosch, Barclay)
Off-side: 2 (Hines, Jackson)
Scrum: 1 (Ford & Jacobsen)
Discipline: 4 (Gray - collapsing maul; Lamont - obstruction; Hines - man without the ball; Jacobsen - not 10)

Italy:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Burton* 2, Zanni, Sgarbi, Castrogiovanni, Dal Fava, Bergamasco)
Off-side: 1 (Canale)
Discipline: 1 (Lo Cicero - stamping)

Each side missed a penalty kick at goal.

(ii) Ireland vs England

Total number of penalties: 15

Ireland: 6
England: 9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

Ireland:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (O'Brien, O' Connell*, Heaslip)
Scrum: 3 (Healy*, Court 2)

England:
Tackle/Ruck: 1 (Palmer)
Off-side: 2 (Flood* et al, Undetermined)
Scrum: 1 (Hartley)
Discipline: 4 (Ashton* - high tackle; Youngs - cheating; Youngs - throwing the ball away in touch; Wood - high tackle)

England missed a penalty kick at goal.

(iii) France vs Wales

Total number of penalties: 25

France: 12
Wales: 13

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

France:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Parra, Harinordoquy, Bonnaire*, Nallet*, Domingo 2, Marty)
Offside: 1 (Palisson)
Scrum: 1 (Ducalcon)
Discipline: 3 (Nallet - obstruction; Bonnaire - + 10; Dusautoir - air tackle))

Wales:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (James*, Adam Jones, Lydiate*, Rees, Davies*, Ryan Jones, Hibbard)
Scrum: 2 (James, Yapp)
Discipline: 4 (Alun-Wyn Jones - high tackle; Hook - man without ball; Hook dangerous tackle))

Each 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:

Scotland vs Italy: 14/23 = 61%
Ireland vs England: 4/15 = 45%
France vs Wales: 14/25 = 27%

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) Scotland vs Italy

Scotland:
Line-outs: 7 (1 lost)
Scrums: 5 (2 reset, 1 collapse, lost, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1

Italy:
Line-outs: 20 (7 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 4 (2 reset, 1 collapse)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 0

(ii) Ireland vs England

Ireland:
Line-outs: 12 (2 lost, 1 quick, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 13 (3 reset, 2 collapses, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1

England:
Line-outs: 11 (1 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 6 (3 reset, 2 collapses, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 2 (line-out, scrum)
Drop-outs: 0

(iii) France vs Wales

France:
Line-outs: 14 (2 lost)
Scrums: 5 (2 reset, 4 collapses, 1 free kick, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1

Wales:
Line-outs: 10 (1 skew, 2 quick)
Scrums: 2 (1 collapse, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 2

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

Scotland vs Italy: 62
Ireland vs England: 65
France vs Wales: 61

Ball in Play

These are provided by Jan Taljaard.

Scotland vs Italy (Walsh):
17 minutes 20 seconds + 21 minutes 28 seconds = 38 minutes 48 seconds

France vs Wales (Joubert):
18 minutes 26 seconds + 20 minutes 05 seconds = 38 minutes 31 seconds

Ireland vs England (Lawrence):
13 minutes 54 seconds + 19 minutes 19 seconds = 33 minutes 13 seconds

Tackles/rucks/mauls per match

Scotland vs Italy: 192
Ireland vs England: 138:
France vs Wales: 170

Kicks per match

Scotland vs Italy: 42

Scotland: 29
Italy: 13

Ireland vs England: 42

Ireland: 27
England: 15

France vs Wales: 44

France: 24
Wales: 20

It's a dubious statistic that the teams that kicked more than their opponents won.

Passes per match

Scotland vs Italy: 361

Scotland: 172
Italy: 189

Ireland vs England: 277

Ireland: 130
England: 147

France vs Wales: 175

France: 124
Wales: 151

The teams that did more passing lost!

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

(i) Scotland vs Italy: 3

Scotland: 2
Italy: 1

(ii) Ireland vs England: 3

Ireland: 2
England: 1

(iii) France vs Wales: 3

France: 3
Wales: 0

Tries/penalties scored

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

France: 3/3
Scotland: 2/3
Wales: 0/3
England: 1/1
Italy: 1/1
Ireland: 2/4

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 9/15

In Week 1 the ratio was 16/17
In Week 2 it was 15/16
In Week 3 it was 8/17
In Week 4 it was 7/21

Turnovers won

Scotland vs Italy:

Scotland:
Italy:

France vs Wales:

France:
Wales:

Ireland vs England:

Ireland:
England:

Tackles made

Scotland vs Italy: 246

Scotland: 143
Italy: 103

Ireland vs England: 162

Ireland: 88
England: 74

France vs Wales: 220

France: 132
Wales: 88

Tackles missed

Scotland vs Italy: 13

Scotland: 7
Italy: 6

Ireland vs England: 12

Ireland: 4
England: 8

France vs Wales: 16

France: 11
Wales: 5

Some Totals

Tries per country

England: 2 + 8 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 13
France: 4 + 1 + 0 + 2 + 3 = 10
Ireland: 1 + 3 + 3 + 1 + 2 = 10
Italy: 1 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 1 = 6
Scotland: 3 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 2 = 6
Wales: 1 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 0 = 6

Penalties conceded per country

England: 9 + 15 + 8 + 8 + 9 = 49
France: 6 + 7 + 7 + 11 + 12 = 43
Ireland: 13 + 10 + 12 + 8 + 6 = 49
Italy: 5 + 15 + 5 + 8 + 9 = 42
Scotland: 8 + 10 + 4 + 11 + 14 = 47
Wales: 8 + 12 + 14 + 10 + 13 = 57

Kicks per country

England: 21 + 16 +18 + 21 + 15 = 91
France: 19 + 16 + 21 + 18 + 24 = 98
Ireland: 21 + 10 + 24 + 42 + 27 = 124
Italy: 19 + 15 + 21 + 20 + 13 = 88
Scotland: 22 + 25 + 24 + 28 + 29 = 128
Wales: 25 + 27 + 26 + 36 + 20 = 134

Passes per country

England: 147 + 234 + 157 + 217 + 147 = 902
France: 169 + 152 + 150 + 164 + 124 = 759
Ireland: 193 + 126 + 144 + 185 130 = 778
Italy: 124 + 148 + 191 + 133 + 189= 685
Scotland: 203 + 199 + 192 + 123 + 172 = 889
Wales: 185 + 107 + 150 + 132 + 151 = 725

Yellow cards

Week 1

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.

Week 2

Martín Castrogiovanni (Italy): deliberately knocking the ball away to prevent a tap kick
Bradley Davies (Wales): deliberate offence at a tackle - kicking the ball away.
Lee Byrne (Wales): high tackle

Week 3

Alan Jacobsen (Scotland) - scrum infringement

Week 4

John Barclay (Scotland) - tackle infringement

Week 5

Nick Youngs (England) - cheating
James Hook (Wales) - dangerous tackle of the tip variety

All the 2011 Results

England vs Wales in Cardiff, 26-19
Ireland vs Italy in Rome, 13-11
France vs Scotland, 34-21

England vs Italy, 59-13
Wales vs Scotland, 24-6 in Edinburgh
France vs Ireland, 25-22 in Dublin

Wales vs Italy, 24-16 in Rome
England vs France, 17-9
Ireland vs Scotland, 21-18 in Edinburgh

Italy vs France, 22-21
Wales vs Ireland, 19-13
England vs Scotland, 22-16

Scotland vs Italy, 21-8
Ireland vs England, 24-8
France vs Wales, 28-9