RWC2014: Ireland Women Stats

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John McMurtry

The stats probably go a long way to pinpointing the reasons behind Ireland’s two losses in the final stages of the 2014 Women’s Rugby World Cup. Going into the final rounds Ireland had a core of 13 players who had been involved in the three pool games with three key players, , and each totalling over 200 minutes on the pitch over 9 days, including two particularly brutal games against the USA and, of course, New Zealand.

By the end of the tournament a core of 11 players had featured in all five matches with the front row of , Bourke and all averaging over 60 minutes each on the pitch over the five games. In the end Bourke played a phenomenal 377 minute in total or 75 minutes per match! Next up was Rosser who averaged 70 minutes per game, closely followed by Coghlan who averaged 69.

Tournament Play

Unfortunately injuries to experienced players such as , and pre World Cup, and the insistence of the IRFU to have particularly small senior squads and the lack of any sort of competition outside of the highly competitive Six Nations tournament left Ireland short of experienced replacements meaning the four key games featured largely the same players.

No slight on the squad players who stood in for the game against Kazakhstan but they have just not had the opportunity to gain the experience required to perform at the highest level. As it was four of the tiny squad of 26 featured in only that one game.

While the women’s club game has improved slightly over the last four years it still has a long way to go. Too few games and even fewer actual competitive fixtures leaves a huge gap between the club/provincial player and the international elite.

It is remarkable what such a small pool of players has achieved over he last two years, producing the two best runs in their history with seven straight wins in 2013/14, picking up the Grand Slam along the way and five straight wins in the build up to and participation in the World Cup pushing their 2 year win average up to unprecedented highs of 80% at the end of 2013 and 76% at the end of the World Cup though they should really get bonus ratings for that win against New Zealand!

2 year win average

New Zealand are the 16th opponent that Ireland have faced and are one of the few that Ireland has a 100% win ratio against 🙂 the others being Germany, Netherlands and South Africa. However Ireland’s all time win ratio is still only 38%, showing what a truly remarkable period of success we are now enjoying.

Last Five

The full list of Ireland Women’s Rugby Fixtures from 1993 to date is shown below.

DATECOMPOPPFALOCATION
Sun 14 Feb 1993FriendlyScotland010AwayRaeburn Place, Edinburgh
Sun 13 Feb 1994FriendlyScotland05HomeRavenhill, Belfast
Fri 15 Apr 1994World CupFrance031N/AWest of Scotland RFC
Sun 17 Apr 1994World CupUSA076N/ABoroughmuir
Wed 20 Apr 1994World CupScotland310N/AMelrose
Sat 23 Apr 1994World CupJapan113N/aBoroughmuir
Mon 20 Feb 1995FriendlyScotland320AwayMyreside, Edinburgh
Fri 03 Mar 1995FriendlyFrance1039HomeDublin
Sun 21 Jan 1996Home NationsScotland021HomeBlackrock
Sun 03 Mar 1996Home NationsWales226HomeOld Belvedere RFC, Dublin
Sun 17 Mar 1996Home NationsEngland812AwaySunbury
Sun 26 Jan 1997Home NationsWales532AwayBridgend
Sun 9 Feb 1997Home NationsEngland032HomeLimerick
Sun 23 Feb 1997Home NationsScotland328AwayPennypit, Edinburgh
Thu 03 Apr 1997FIRASpain027N/ANice, France
Fri 04 Apr 1997FIRAItaly513N/ANice, France
Sun 06 Apr 1997FIRAGermany160N/ANice, France
Sun 09 Nov 1997FriendlyGermany326AwayHamburg
Sun 08 Feb 1998Home NationsScotland015HomeOld Belvedere RFC, Dublin
Sun 22 Mar 1998Home NationsWales1027HomeOld Crescent RFC, Rosbrien
Sun 05 Apr 1998Home NationsEngland862AwayWorcester
Sat 02 May 1998World CupAustralia021N/AAmsterdam
Tue 05 May 1998World CupKazakhstan612N/AAmsterdam
Sat 09 May 1998World CupNetherlands2118N/AAmsterdam
Tue 12 May 1998World CupItaly205N/AAmsterdam
Fri 15 May 1998World CupKazakhstan1026N/AAmsterdam
Sun 07 Feb 1999Five NationsFrance024HomeDublin
Sun 28 Feb 1999Five NationsWales026AwayUnknown
Sun 07 Mar 1999Five NationsEngland056HomeDublin
Wed 31 Mar 1999Five NationsScotland522AwayInverleith, Edinburgh
Mon 08 May 2000FIRAFrance1441N/AEl Ejido, Spain
Wed 10 May 2000FIRAKazakhstan1531N/AVera, Spain
Sat 13 May 2000FIRANetherlands1912N/AEl Ejido, Spain
Sat 03 Feb 2001FriendlySpain042AwayMadrid
Fri 16 Feb 2001FriendlyFrance053HomeDublin
Sun 06 May 2001FIRAFrance945N/AMarquette les Lille, France
Sat 12 May 2001FIRAItaly98N/ALille, France
Sun 10 Jun 2001FIRAWales1015N/ALille, France
Sun 03 Feb 2002Six NationsWales513HomeThomond Park, Limerick
Sun 17 Feb 2002Six NationsEngland079AwayWorcester
Sat 02 Mar 2002Six NationsScotland013HomeLimerick
Mon 25 Mar 2002Six NationsSpain68HomeLimerick
Fri 05 Apr 2002Six NationsFrance046AwayMelun
Mon 13 May 2002World CupCanada057N/ABarcelona
Fri 17 May 2002World CupSamoa022N/ABarcelona
Mon 20 May 2002World CupGermany180N/ABarcelona
Fri 24 May 2002World CupJapan018N/ABarcelona
Sun 16 Feb 2003Six NationsScotland025AwayNetherdale, Galashields
Sun 23 Feb 2003Six NationsSpain160AwayMadrid
Sun 09 Mar 2003Six NationsFrance020HomeLimerick
Fri 21 Mar 2003Six NationsWales017AwayCardiff Arms Park
Fri 28 Mar 2003Six NationsEngland346HomeThomond Park RFC, Limerick
Sun 15 Feb 2004Six NationsFrance522AwaySavigny sur Orge, Paris
Sat 21 Feb 2004Six NationsWales1314HomeThomond Park, Limerick
Sat 06 Mar 2004Six NationsEngland1051AwayTwickenham, London
Sat 20 Mar 2004Six NationsSpain78HomeThomond Park, Limerick
Sat 27 Mar 2004Six NationsScotland017HomeThomond Park, Limerick
Sat 01 May 2004FIRAWales724N/AToulouse, France
Wed 05 May 2004FIRAItaly145N/AToulouse, France
Sat 08 May 2004FIRASpain2012N/AToulouse, France
Sun 24 Oct 2004FriendlyNetherlands150AwayAmsterdam
Sun 14 Nov 2004FriendlyJapan550HomeDonnybrook, Dublin
Sat 05 Feb 2005Six NationsSpain1719AwayCampo Central, Madrid
Sat 12 Feb 2005Six NationsScotland515AwayMurrayfield
Sat 26 Feb 2005Six NationsEngland032HomeSt Mary’s College, Dublin
Sun 13 Mar 2005Six NationsFrance034HomeDublin
Fri 18 Mar 2005Six NationsWales116AwayArms Park, Cardiff
Wed 25 Jan 2006FriendlyUSA523Home?
Sat, 4 Feb 2006Six NationsSpain2510HomeDonnybrook, Dublin
Fri 10 Feb 2006Six NationsFrance032AwayMontauban, Toulouse
Sat 25 Feb 2006Six NationsWales714HomeDonnybrook, Dublin
Fri 10 Mar 2006Six NationsScotland09HomeNavan
Fri 17 Mar 2006Six NationsEngland1029AwayOld Albanians, St Albans
Sat 29 Apr 2006FriendlyCanada158HomeGalway
Thu 31 Aug 2006World CupFrance043N/ASt. Albert Rugby Park, St. Albert
Mon 04 Sep 2006World CupUSA1124N/AEllerslie Rugby Park, Edmonton
Fri 08 Sep 2006World CupSouth Africa370N/ASt. Albert Rugby Park, St. Albert
Tue 12 Sep 2006World CupScotland1011N/ASt. Albert Rugby Park, St. Albert
Sat 16 Sep 2006World CupAustralia1418N/AEllerslie Rugby Park, Edmonton
Sat 03 Feb 2007Six NationsWales510AwayTaffs Well RFC, Cardiff
Sat 10 Feb 2007Six NationsFrance1013HomeSt Mary’s RFC, Dublin
Sun, 25 Feb 2007Six NationsEngland032HomeThomond Park, Limerick
Sat 10 Mar 2007Six NationsScotland186AwayMeggetland, Edinburgh
Sat 17 Mar 2007Six NationsItaly1712AwayTre Fontane, Rome
Fri 01 Feb 2008Six NationsItaly190HomeSt Mary’s RFC, Dublin
Sun 10 Feb 2008Six NationsFrance1726AwaySt Gratien
Fri 22 Feb 2008Six NationsScotland133HomeSt Mary’s RFC, Dublin
Fri 07 Mar 2008Six NationsWales1019HomeSt Mary’s RFC, Dublin
Sat 15 Mar 2008Six NationsEngland717AwayLondon Irish
Sat 17 May 2008FIRASpain417N/AAmsterdam
Tue 20 May 2008FIRAEngland1122N/ADrachten, Netherlands
Sat 24 May 2008FIRAFrance2222N/AAmsterdam
Fri 06 Feb 2009Six NationsFrance75HomeAshbourne
Sat 14 Feb 2009Six NationsItaly3517AwayStadio M.Natali, Colleferro
Fri 27 Feb 2009Six NationsEngland1329HomeSt Mary’s RFC, Dublin
Fri 13 Mar 2009Six NationsScotland230AwayMeggetland
Sat 21 Mar 2009Six NationsWales1310AwayTaffs Well
Fri 05 Feb 2010Six NationsItaly225HomeAshbourne
Fri 12 Feb 2010Six NationsFrance919AwayStade des Allées, Blois, Loir-et-Cher
Sun 28 Feb 2010Six NationsEngland522AwayPillar Data Arena, Esher, Surrey
Fri 12 Mar 2010Six NationsWales183HomeAshbourne
Fri 19 Mar 2010Six NationsScotland153HomeAshbourne
Fri 20 Aug 2010World CupEngland027N/ASurrey Sports Park, Guildford
Tue 24 Aug 2010World CupUSA2212N/ASurrey Sports Park, Guildford
Sat 28 Aug 2010World CupKazakhstan373N/ASurrey Sports Park, Guildford
Wed 01 Sep 2010World CupUSA340N/ASurrey Sports Park, Guildford
Sun 05 Sep 2010World CupScotland328N/ASurrey Sports Park, Guildford
Sun 06 Feb 2011Six NationsItaly265AwayRovigo
Fri 11 Feb 2011Six NationsFrance1214HomeAshbourne
Sat 26 Feb 2011Six NationsScotland225AwayLasswade
Sun 13 Mar 2011Six NationsWales1415AwayCross Keys RFC
Fri 18 Mar 2011Six NationsEngland1415HomeAshbourne
Sat 11 Feb 2012Six NationsFrance78AwayStade de Hameau, Pau
Fri 24 Feb 2012Six NationsItaly4010HomeAshbourne RFC
Sat 03 Mar 2012Six NationsWales360HomeAshbourne RFC
Fri 09 Mar 2012Six NationsScotland200HomeAshbourne RFC
Sat 17 Mar 2012Six NationsEngland623AwayEsher RFC
Sun 03 Feb 2013Six NationsWales1210AwayAberavon
Sat 09 Feb 2013Six NationsEngland250HomeAshbourne RFC
Sat, 23 Feb 2013Six NationsScotland303AwayLasswade
Fri 08 Mar 2013Six NationsFrance1510HomeAshbourne RFC
Sun 17 Mar 2013Six NationsItaly63AwayParabiago, Milan
Fri 31 Jan 2014Six NationsScotland590HomeAshbourne RFC
Fri 07 Feb 2014Six NationsWales186HomeAshbourne RFC
Sat 22 Feb 2014Six NationsEngland1017AwayTwickenham, London
Sat 08 Mar 2014Six NationsItaly390HomeAviva Stadium, Dublin
Fri 14 Mar 2014Six NationsFrance1519AwayStade du Hameau, Pau
Sat 05 Jul 2014FriendlySpain3620AwayValladolid, Spain
Sun 20 Jul 2014FriendlyWales277HomeMalahide RFC
Fri 01 Aug 2014World CupUSA2317N/AMarcoussis, France
Tue 05 Aug 2014World CupNew Zealand1714N/AMarcoussis, France
Sat 09 Aug 2014World CupKazakhstan405N/AMarcoussis, France
Wed 13 Aug 2014World CupEngland740N/AStade Jean Bouin, Paris, France
Sun 17 Aug 2014World CupFrance1825N/AStade Jean Bouin, Paris, France

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