Stats the spirit: Running the Round 24 numbers 📊📉
A record-breaking regular season on the both sides of the ball looms for the Warriors.
All-time attacking and defensive records beckon
Wahs wingers pile up tries on Broncos
Barnett on a tear
Statistical nectar from the Rugby League Eye Test
Hat-trick of wins over Rabbitohs on the cards
With three rounds still to play, the Warriors have won 15 games in a season for just the fifth time in their 32-season history.
Andrew Webster’s side has unequivocally put something of a mini-slump well behind them to win three straight: an iconic 28-12 statement against Penrith bookended with Queensland-hosted beatdowns of Gold Coast (42-6) and now Brisbane (40-6).
For the second straight game, the Warriors kept a clean defensive sheet in the first half — despite Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad becoming the third Warriors player to be sin-binned in 2026.
The Warriors led 18-0 at halftime — another repeat of the previous week against the Panthers — and ran in four tries to one after the break to cruise to an emphatic victory, their biggest over the Broncos since 2013.
Competition leaders in both categories, the Warriors dominated in the possession (52%) and completion rate (85% to 79%) departments. It was a bloodbath in the run metres stakes — the Warriors made 1,712 metres to the Broncos’ 1,196, while the average set distance disparity (42.81 metres to 27.82) was even more disparate.
Narrow penalty count winners (6-5), the Warriors were caned in terms of set restarts (8-2) but it made little difference for a battling, outmatched Broncos outfit that lost their best player, Reece Walsh, 20 minutes in.
The Warriors scored seven tries despite making only five line-breaks. Each of their five line-breaks resulted in tries to the line-breaker, while there was a try from an intercept and another from a kick.
For-and-against all odds
The Warriors hit 40 points for the fifth time this season, while it was also the fifth occasion they have conceded just one try.
It’s only the second time the Warriors have hit 40 points five times in the same year, also managing the feat on five occasions in 2014.
The latter stat equals the Warriors’ all-time record of conceding one or fewer tries five times in a season, achieved in 2018 (it occurred four times in 2007, 2008 and 2010). In each of Andrew Webster’s first three seasons, the Warriors only recorded one game conceding one try.
Accordingly, the Warriors are in the frame to break season club records for both attack and defence.
Currently boasting an NRL-high 606 points, the Warriors need to score a further 83 points over the last three rounds to pass the history-making 2002 combination’s mark for points scored in a regular season.
The Warriors’ record for least points conceded in a season is in even closer reach. They have leaked just 330 points so far, still a considerable haul short of the club’s lowest regular-season tally to date — 393 points in 2011.
Few fans will need reminding the Warriors’ best attacking team became the club’s first grand final qualifiers and the best defensive unit became its second.
The Warriors have a points differential of +276 (second only to Penrith’s +286, with Cronulla’s +165 a distant third); the 2002 side holds the club record with a for-and-against total of +242.
