RBS 6 NATIONS CHAMPIONSHIP 2011 – OFFICIAL MATCH DATA

STADE DE - 19.03.11

15 Medard 1 Domingo 15 Byrne 1 James 14 Clerc 2 Servat FRANCE 14 Halfpenny 2 Rees 13 Marty 3 Mas 13 Roberts 3 A R Jones 12 Traille 4 Pierre 12 J J V Davies 4 B S Davies 11 Palisson 5 Nallet 11 North 5 A W Jones 10 Trinh-Duc 6 Dusautoir 28 9 10 Hook 6 Lydiate 9 Parra 7 Bonnaire 9 Phillips 7 Warburton 8 Harinordoquy 8 R P Jones 11 HT 3

Try 3 PenTry 0 02:31 HOOK - Penalty Try 0 PenTry 0 Conversions 2 / 3 PARRA - Penalty 07:15 Conversions 0 / 0 Penalty Goals 3 / 4 12:48 HOOK - PenMiss Penalty Goals 3 / 4 Drop Goals 0 / 1 15:34 Thomas on for Warburton Drop Goals 0 / 0 PARRA - Penalty 25:45 Phases of Play PARRA - PenMiss 36:18 Phases of Play Scrums Won 2 NALLET - Try 37:54 Scrums Won 1 Lost 0 PARRA - ConMiss 39:13 Lost 0 Lineouts Won 13 HT Lineouts Won 10 Lost 3 42:56 HOOK - Penalty Lost 2 Pens Conceded 12 NALLET - Try 43:36 Pens Conceded 13 Freekick Conceded 1 PARRA - Conversion 44:49 Freekick Conceded 0 Mauls Won 7 48:11 HOOK - Penalty Mauls Won 0 Ruck and Drive 32 PARRA - Penalty 52:26 Ruck and Drive 52 Ruck and Pass 40 52:38 Yapp on for A R Jones Ruck and Pass 39 TRAILLE - DropMiss 55:03 Ball Won 56:58 HOOK - Sin Bin Ball Won In Open Play 79 CLERC - Try 58:40 In Open Play 91 In Opponent’s 22 26 PARRA - Conversion 59:34 In Opponent’s 22 14 At Set Pieces 28 Pape on for Pierre 66:39 At Set Pieces 23 Turnovers Won 4 Ducalcon on for Mas 66:46 Turnovers Won 0 66:48 S M Jones on for Hook Team Statistics 66:48 Peel on for Phillips Team Statistics Passes Completed 124 66:48 Hibbard on for Rees Passes Completed 151 Line Breaks 4 Estebanez on for Traille 69:44 Line Breaks 2 Possession Kicked 24 Guirado on for Servat 70:29 Possession Kicked 20 Errors from Kicks 1 70:29 Mccusker on for Thomas Errors from Kicks 2 Kicks to Touch 6 Lapandry on for Harinordoquy 71:15 Kicks to Touch 4 Percentage Kicks 45% Tomas on for Parra 73:08 Percentage Kicks 37% Huget on for Clerc 74:59 Tackles Made 132 Mas on for Domingo 76:51 Tackles Made 88 Missed 11 Missed 5 Tackle Completion 92% Tackle Completion 94%

Offloads in Tackle 6 Offloads in Tackle 18 Offloads / Tackled 6% Offloads / Tackled 13%

Total Errors Made 9 Total Errors Made 12 Errors / Possession 16% Errors / Possession 22%

Minutes in Possession Minutes in Possession 1 14:36 2 13:25 1 10:12 2 14:21

Mins in Opponent’s Half Mins in Opponent’s Half 1 24:27 2 18:59 1 19:13 2 25:32

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19.03.11 21:51 2011 BULLETIN ROUND 5 FIXTURES

SATURDAY 19 MARCH KO: 20.45 FRANCE V WALES

FRANCE V WALES P W D L F (pts) A (pts) F (tries) A (tries) Overall 87 41 3 43 1267 1288 161 173 Five / Six 81 38 3 40 1139 1122 145 147 Six Nations 11 8 0 3 300 232 23 20

RBS 6 NATIONS RECORDS FORM GUIDE RBS 6 NATIONS RECORDS Highest Score 56 (A 2005) France at Stade de France (6 Nations – 2000-2011) Highest Score 47 (H Italy 2000, 2008) L L W / W L / W W W / W W / W W W / W L / W W W / W W / W Biggest Win Margin 43 (A Italy 2005) L W / W W / W W W / W Biggest Win Margin 39 (H Italy 2008) Highest Score Agst 48 (A England 2001) FRANCE at Stade de France (LAST 10-2008-2011) Highest Score Agst 54 (A 2002) Heaviest Loss Margin 29 (A England 2001) W L W W W W W W L W Heaviest Loss Margin 44 (A Ireland 2002) WALES at Stade de France Most Appearances 36 W L W L L Most Appearances 49 Stephen Jones JB Elissalde WALES in (LAST 10) Most Points in Match 24 Most Points in Match 28 N Jenkins (A Wales 2004) L L L L W W L W L L (A France 2001) Most Tries in Match 3 V Clerc (H Ireland 2008) DID YOU KNOW... Most Tries in Match 2 13 Occasions French coach Marc Lievremont’s bold decision to drop six senior Most Cons in Match 6 D Yachvili (A Italy 2003) players from the 22 that lost to Italy in last weekend has Most Cons in Match 5 S Jones (H Italy 2002, taken 379 caps worth of experience out of his side. Between A 2005) Most Pens in Match 7 G Merceron (H Italy 2002) them Aurelien Rougerie (63 caps), (73), Sylvain Marconnet (83), Sebastien Chabal (62), Jerome Thion (54) and Most Pens in Match 7 N Jenkins (H Italy 2000) Most DG in Match 2 L Beauxis Clement Poitrenaud (44). Between them the six players have won (A Ireland 2009) eight Grand Slams and 18 Six Nations titles. Wales outside half will be looking to maintain his 100% record in the RBS Most DG in Match 3 N Jenkins 6 Nations in the No 10 jersey. Last weekend’s victory over Ireland (A Scotland 2001) was his seventh Championship start in the legendary Welsh shirt and all seven matches have been won. He has also come onto the field four times to take over at No 10 and won three of them.

FRANCE CAPS (W - D - L) POINTS LAST YEAR…26 Feb, WALES CAPS (W - D - L) POINTS WALES 20 FRANCE 26 HT: 0- 20 Att: 74,102 15 Maxime Medard 18(11-0-7) 43 (8T 1DG) Wales: L Byrne; L Halfpenny, J Hook, J Roberts, S Williams; S Jones, R 15 42(17-2-23) 45 (9T) Rees; P James, H Bennett, AR Jones, B Davies, Deiniol Jones (L Charteris 14 47(29-1-17) 115 (23T) 25), J Thomas, M Williams, R Jones (capt) 14 18(7-0-11) 62 (7T 9P) Scorers; Tries -L Halfpenny,S Williams; Cons - S Jones 2;Pens - S Jones 2 13 28(13-0-15) 10 (2T) 13 32(25-0-7) 55 (11T) Reps not used: K Owens, R Gill, S Warburton, M Phillips, 12 81(52-2-27) 123 (13T 8C A Bishop, T Shanklin 12 Jonathan Davies 10(6-0-4) 10 (2T) 12P 2DG) France: C Poitrenaud (M Andreu 80); J Malzieu, M Bastareaud 11 3(0-1-2) 10 (2T) 11 13(8-0-5) 10 (2T) (D Marty 70), Y Jauzion, A Palisson; F Trinh-Duc (F Michalak 62), M Parra; T Domingo (J-B Poux 54), W Servat (D Szarzewski 71), N Mas, L Nallet, J 10 James Hook 51(21-2-28) 268 (11T 36C Pierre (S Chabal 64), T Dusautoir (capt), J Bonnaire, I Harinordoquy 10 Francois Trinh-Duc 26(15-0-11) 44 (6T 1C 1P 3DG) (A Lapandry 70) 43P 4DG) 9 26(17-0-9) 169 (1T 25C Scorers; Tries - A Palisson, F Trinh-Duc; Cons - M Parra 2; Pens - M Parra 9 Mike Phillips 50(24-2-24) 25 (5T) 37P 1DG) 3, F Michalak YC: M Parra (63) Referee: Jonathan Kaplan () 1 21(8-1-12) 1 16(11-0-5) 5 (1T) MATCH RECORDS - TEAM 2 46(20-1-25) 10 (2T) 2 36(24-1-11) 10 (2T) 3 Adam Jones 68(31-3-34) 10 (2T) 3 43(26-0-17) FRANCE 6N OVERALL 4 21(9-1-11) 4 16(9-0-7) Highest Score 37 (2002) 51 (1998) 5 Alun 47(19-0-28) 25 (5T) 5 61(41-0-20) 30 (6T) Win Margin 33 (2000) 51 (1998) 6 9(4-1-4) Most Tries 3 (2000,2002,2003) 7 (1998) 7 13(7-0-6) 5 (1T) 6 41(25-0-16) 25 (5T) Most Cons 3 (2000,2003) 5 (1998) 7 60(40-1-19) 30 (6T) Most Pens 7 (2001) 7 (2001) 8 50(26-2-22) 5 (1T) 8 68(44-1-23) 65 (13T) Most DGs 1 (2000,2002,2005) 2 (1958, 1967) WALES 6N OVERALL Replacements Replacements Highest Score 43 (2001) 49 (1910) 16 Richard Hibbard 13(6-0-7) Win Margin 17 (2008) 42 (1909) 17 John Yapp 20(14-0-6) 16 11(5-0-6) Most Tries 4 (2001) 11 (1909) 17 Luc Ducalcon 5(4-0-1) Most Cons 4 (2001) 8 (1910) 18 65(29-3-33) 35 (7T) 18 Pascal Pape 26(15-1-10) 10 (2T) Most Pens 5 (2004, 2008) 9 (1999) 19 Josh Turnbull 1(1-0-0) 19 5(5-0-0) 5 (1T) Most DGs 2 (2001) 2 (1930, 1978, 2001) 20 75(35-2-38) 25 (5T) 20 2(1-0-1) MATCH RECORDS - INDIVIDUAL 21 Stephen Jones 98(41-3-54) 981 (7T 138C 21 3(2-0-1) 1184P 6DG) FRANCE 6N OVERALL 22 Yohan Huget 6(3-0-3) 22 Morgan Stoddart 6(3-0-3) 20 (4T) Most Points 24 (JB Elissalde (2004) 24 JB Elissalde (2004) Most Tries 2 ( 2002) 3 Emile Ntamack 1999 WALES 6N OVERALL Most Points 28 ( 2001) 29 (Neil Jenkins 1999) Most Tries 2 ( 2005) 4 (Reggie Gibbs 1908) All information correct at time of publishing