Six Nations Review: Top Scorers

For the third year running, Ireland out-half Ronan O’Gara has finished top of the scoring charts in the RBS 6 Nations championship. He finished the 2007 tournament with a handsome tally of 82 points, just a converted try behind Jonny Wilkinson’s record of 89 points from 2001.

RBS 6 NATIONS SCORING STATISTICS (AFTER FIVE ROUNDS) –

TOP POINTS SCORERS:

82 – Ronan O’Gara (Ireland)
65 – Chris Paterson (Scotland)
50 – Jonny Wilkinson (England)
47 – David Skrela (France)
31 – Andrea Scanavacca (Italy)
30 – James Hook (Wales)
28 – Ramiro Pez (Italy)
26 – Stephen Jones (Wales)
24 – Lione Beauxis (France), Toby Flood (England)
20 – Jason Robinson (England)
15 – Girvan Dempsey (Ireland)
10 – Mauro Bergamasco (Italy), Sebastien Chabal (France), Rob Dewey (Scotland), Christope Dominici (France), Cedric Heymans (France), Denis Hickie (Ireland), Shane Horgan (Ireland), Yannick Jauzion (France), Kaine Robertson (Italy)
9 – Dimitri Yachvili (France)
5 – Rory Best (Ireland), Marco Bortolami (Italy), Isaac Boss (Ireland), Vincent Clerc (France), Gordon D’Arcy (Ireland), Roland De Marigny (Ireland), Simon Easterby (Ireland), Harry Ellis (England), Shane Geraghty (England), Imanol Harinordoquy (France), Chris Horsman (Wales), Raphael Ibanez (France), Sean Lamont (Scotland)

TOP TRY SCORERS:

4 – Ronan O’Gara (Ireland), Jason Robinson (England)
3 – Girvan Dempsey (Ireland)
2 – Mauro Bergamasco (Italy), Sebastien Chabal (France), Rob Dewey (Scotland), Christophe Dominici (France), Cedric Heymans (France), Denis Hickie (Ireland), Shane Horgan (Ireland), Yannick Jauzion (France), Kaine Robertson (Italy), Andrea Scanavacca (Italy)
1 – Rory Best (Ireland), Marco Bortolami (Italy), Isaac Boss (Ireland), Vincent Clerc (France), Gordon D’Arcy (Ireland), Roland De Marigny (Italy), Simon Easterby (Ireland), Harry Ellis (England), Toby Flood (England), Imanol Harinordoquy (France), James Hook (Wales), Chris Horsman (Wales), Raphael Ibanez (France), Sean Lamont (Scotland), Magnus Lund (England), David Marty (France), Olivier Milloud (France), Euan Murray (Scotland), Lionel Nallet (France), Brian O’Driscoll (Ireland), Chris Paterson (Scotland), Alix Popham (Wales)

TOP GOAL SCORERS:

24 – Ronan O’Gara (Ireland)
22 – Chris Paterson (Scotland)
18 – David Skrela (France)
15 – Jonny Wilkinson (England)
10 – Lionel Beauxis (France), Stephen Jones (Wales)
9 – Andrea Scanavacca (Italy)
8 – James Hook (Wales), Ramiro Pez (Italy)
6 – Toby Flood (England)
3 – Dimitri Yachvili (France)
2 – Shane Geraghty (England)
1 – Paddy Wallace (Ireland

TOP TEAM SCORERS:

IRELAND 17 tries, 149 points
FRANCE 15 tries, 155 points
ENGLAND 10 tries, 119 points
ITALY 9 tries, 94 points
SCOTLAND 7 tries, 95 points
WALES 7 tries, 86 points

TOP KICKING STATS:

100% – Shane Geraghty (England) – 2/2 attempts
100% – Dimitri Yachvili (France) – 3/3 attempts
100% – Paddy Wallace (Ireland) – 1/1 attempts
88% – Chris Paterson (Scotland) – 22/25 attempts
83% – Stephen Jones (Wales) – 10/12 attempts
81% – David Skrela (France) – 18/22 attempts
80% – Ramiro Pez (Italy) – 8/10 attempts
78% – Jonny Wilkinson (England) – 15/19 attempts

– All statistics compiled by SAS Software Ltd., the official data and competititve intelligence partner of the RBS 6 Nations championship –