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Revision as of 17:40, 27 February 2010

2010 Six Nations Championship
Tournament statistics
Matches played7
Attendance480,422 (68,632 per match)

The 2010 Six Nations Championship, known as the 2010 RBS 6 Nations due to the tournament's sponsorship by the Royal Bank of Scotland, is the 11th series of the Six Nations Championship. The annual northern hemisphere rugby union championship is contested by England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. The tournament began on the weekend of 6 February 2010, with the final games scheduled for 20 March 2010.

Participants

The teams involved are:

Nation Home stadium City Head coach Captain
 England Twickenham London Martin Johnson Steve Borthwick
 France Stade de France Paris Marc Lièvremont Thierry Dusautoir
 Ireland Croke Park[N 1] Dublin Declan Kidney Brian O'Driscoll
 Italy Stadio Flaminio Rome Nick Mallett Leonardo Ghiraldini[N 2]
 Scotland Murrayfield Edinburgh Andy Robinson Mike Blair/Chris Cusiter
 Wales Millennium Stadium Cardiff Warren Gatland Ryan Jones
  1. ^ The Aviva Stadium (replacing Lansdowne Road) is not expected to open until April 2010 following the redevelopment of the site.
  2. ^ Italy's normal captain, Sergio Parisse, has been ruled out of the 2010 Six Nations due to a torn ACL suffered in a training session during the November 2009 test series.[1]

Squads

For each nation's squad for the 2010 Six Nations Championship, see 2010 Six Nations Championship squads.

Table

Position Nation Games Points Table
points
Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Difference Tries
1  France 3 3 0 0 77 39 +38 7 6
2  England 2 2 0 0 47 29 +18 4 4
3  Ireland 2 1 0 1 39 44 −5 3 2
4  Wales 3 1 0 2 68 80 −12 7 2
5  Italy 3 1 0 2 39 58 −19 2 2
6  Scotland 3 0 0 3 45 65 −20 2 0

Fixtures and results

The schedule for the 2010 Championship was released on 2 April 2009.[2] Following the success of the tournament's first Friday night game, between France and Wales in the 2009 Championship, the organisers scheduled the reverse fixture to also be played on a Friday night.[3]

'c' and 'm' following a try denote 'converted' and 'missed conversion' respectively.

Week 1

6 February 2010
14:30 GMT
Ireland 29 – 11 Italy
Try: Heaslip 15' c
O'Leary 35' c
Con: O'Gara (2/2)
Pen: O'Gara (4/4) 9', 27', 32', 46'
P. Wallace (1/1) 67'		ReportTry: Robertson 39' m
Pen: Gower (1/1) 26'
Mi. Bergamasco (1/1) 44'
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 77,686
Referee: Romain Poîte (France)
6 February 2010
17:00 GMT
England 30 – 17 Wales
Try: Haskell (2) 40' c, 75' c
Care 44' c
Con: Wilkinson (3/3)
Pen: Wilkinson (3/3) 11', 35', 79'		ReportTry: A. Jones 49' c
Hook 71' c
Con: S. Jones (2/2)
Pen: S. Jones (1/2) 27'
Twickenham, London
Attendance: 81,406
Referee: Alain Rolland (Ireland)
  • England wore a special kit to celebrate the centenary of the first international match – England v Wales – at Twickenham Stadium.[4]
7 February 2010
15:00 GMT
Scotland 9 – 18 France
Pen: Paterson (3/3) 9', 30', 52'ReportTry: Bastareaud (2) 14' m, 33' c
Con: Parra (1/2)
Pen: Parra (2/3) 28', 44'
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Attendance: 65,687
Referee: Nigel Owens (Wales)

Week 2

13 February 2010
14:00 GMT
Wales 31 – 24 Scotland
Try: Byrne 56' m
Halfpenny 77' c
S. Williams 80+1' c
Con: S. Jones (2/3)
Pen: S. Jones (4/5) 15', 23', 39', 79'		ReportTry: Barclay 9' c
M. Evans 20' m
Con: Paterson (1/2)
Pen: Parks (2/2) 26', 41'
Drop: Parks (2/4) 18', 66'
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Attendance: 72,400
Referee: George Clancy (Ireland)
  • Chris Paterson became the 13th player in history with at least 100 international appearances. His missed conversion ended a personal streak of 35 consecutive successful kicks at goal in the Six Nations, dating back to 2007.[5]
13 February 2010
16:30 GMT
France 33 – 10 Ireland
Try: Servat 27' c
Jauzion 31' c
Poitrenaud 59' c
Con: Parra (3/3)
Pen: Parra (2/3) 17', 68'
Drop: Parra (1/1) 62'
Michalak (1/1) 78'		ReportTry: D. Wallace 64' c
Con: O'Gara (1/1)
Pen: O'Gara (1/1) 29'
Stade de France, Paris
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Wayne Barnes (England)
14 February 2010
14:30 GMT
Italy 12 – 17 England
Pen: Mi. Bergamasco (4/5)ReportTry: Tait 44' m
Pen: Wilkinson (3/5)
Drop: Wilkinson (1/1) 74'
Stadio Flaminio, Rome
Attendance: 31,876
Referee: Christophe Berdos (France)
  • Jonny Wilkinson's two missed penalties ended a personal streak of consecutive successful penalty kicks in any international which he has started, dating back to 2003.[6]

Week 3

26 February 2010
20:00 GMT
Wales 20 – 26 France
Try: Halfpenny 62' c
S. Williams 79' c
Con: S. Jones (2/2)
Pen: S. Jones (2/2) 45', 49'		ReportTry: Palisson 6' c
Trinh-Duc 40' c
Con: Parra (2/2)
Pen: Parra (3/3) 19', 26', 78'
Michalak (1/1) 71'
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Attendance: 73,767
Referee: Jonathan Kaplan (South Africa)
27 February 2010
13:30 GMT
Italy 16 - 12 Scotland
Try: Canavosio 64' c
Con: Mi. Birgamasco (1/1)
Pen: Mi. Birgamasco (3/3) 10', 14', 43'		Pen: Parks (3/4) 22', 33', 64'
Drop: Parks 49'
Stadio Flaminio, Rome
Referee: Dave Pearson (England)
27 February 2010
16:00 GMT
England 16 - 13 (70mins) Ireland
Twickenham, London
Referee: Mark Lawrence (South Africa)
  • John Hayes of Ireland became the first Irish player to earn 100 international caps for his country.[7]

Week 4

13 March 2010
14:30 GMT
Ireland v Wales
Croke Park, Dublin
Referee: Craig Joubert (South Africa)
13 March 2010
17:00 GMT
Scotland v England
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Referee: Marius Jonker (South Africa)
14 March 2010
14:30 GMT
France v Italy
Stade de France, Paris
Referee: Alan Lewis (Ireland)

Week 5

20 March 2010
14:30 GMT
Wales v Italy
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Referee: Wayne Barnes (England)
20 March 2010
17:00 GMT
Ireland v Scotland
Croke Park, Dublin
Referee: Jonathan Kaplan (South Africa)
20 March 2010
19:45 GMT
France v England
Stade de France, Paris
Referee: Bryce Lawrence (New Zealand)

Scorers

References

  1. ^ "Sergio Parisse ruled out of Italy's Six Nations campaign after injury". guardian.co.uk. Guardian News and Media. 27 November 2009. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
  2. ^ "RBS Six Nations Fixtures and Results". rbs6nations.com. Six Nations Rugby. Retrieved 26 February 2010.
  3. ^ "Wales host France in Friday clash". BBC Sport. British Broadcasting Corporation. 2 April 2009. Retrieved 26 February 2010.
  4. ^ Evans, Jonathan (3 February 2010). "England strip back to good old days (when they won)". Western Mail. Media Wales. Retrieved 26 February 2010.
  5. ^ Scrum.com
  6. ^ "Six Nations - Italy v England as it happened". BBC Sport. British Broadcasting Corporation. 14 February 2010. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
  7. ^ "England v Ireland". BBC Sport. British Broadcasting Corporation. 25 February 2010. Retrieved 26 February 2010.
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