Card question

cables · Post by **cables** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:02 am

Yellow cards in the ML this season (averages in brackets):

Irish Teams 29 (7.25)
Welsh Teams 15 (3.75)
Scottish Teams 7 (3.5)

Why?

pwrmoore · Post by **pwrmoore** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:18 am

Either Irish teams infringe more or refs go with a preconception that they do. Couldn't tell you which though

Rooster · Post by **Rooster** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:21 am

Irish teams get more Scottish referees ?

cables · Post by **cables** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 3:36 am

You may recall Munster winning the Specsavers Fairplay League - they are now basically at the other end of that League this season along with Connacht and Ulster - Leinster are only half as bad.

Some further data:

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Rooster · Post by **Rooster** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:30 am

Scots reffs dont appear to give many cards to Scots sides, but then again they only have 2 all Scots matches.

cables · Post by **cables** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:49 pm

I looked at the stats on a per game basis.

There were 23 (of 55) games with no cards.
18 games with a total of 1 card.
9 games with a total of 2 cards.
5 games with a total of 3 cards.

No Welsh or Scottish team OR Leinster were shown more than 1 card in a game.

Connacht at Home were shown 2 cards in each of 2 games (Paterson and Bodily were refs).
Munster (Away) were shown 2 cards in each of 2 games (Jones and Rolland were refs).
Ulster (Away) were shown 2 cards in each of 2 games (Paterson and Lewis were refs).
Ulster (Away) were shown 3 cards in 1 game (Allan was ref).

Connacht, Munster need to address this. Ulster needs to wise up.

Setanta · Post by **Setanta** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 3:08 pm

Ulster (Away) were shown 2 cards in each of 2 games (Paterson and Lewis were refs).
Ulster (Away) were shown 3 cards in 1 game (Allan was ref).

Surprise, surprise!!!! Well, who'd have thought?!!

BR · Post by BR » Tue Mar 03, 2009 2:13 pm

Interesting table - especially the home/away trend.

What would happen if you stripped out the derby matches?

cables · Post by **cables** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:03 pm

THIS BR
(non-derby first then derby only)

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BR · Post by BR » Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:56 pm

I'm pretty sure we could read anything we wanted into that. I think I'll stick with "Ulster need to concede less penalties, if they are playing at home or away with a Irish or non-Irish ref"

ulsterrugby4life · Post by **ulsterrugby4life** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:10 am

BR wrote:

I'm pretty sure we could read anything we wanted into that. I think I'll stick with "Ulster need to concede less penalties, if they are playing at home or away with a Irish or non-Irish ref"

impartial and well said LOL

does verge on ridiculous at times!!!! esp. were some of the penalties are conceded

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