Stats the spirit: Running the Round 22 numbers 📊📉
Fantastic facts and figures from an emphatic Warriors win on the Gold Coast.
Wahs and Titans attract the masses
Split the differential
Metre-eating mania
Wing pairing on fire
CHT-TMM combo firms for finals
Nicho evokes memories of Witt streak
Wahs eye end of eight-year home drought
The Warriors rocketed back to form with a 42-6 rout of a previously in-form Gold Coast Titans at Cbus Super Stadium, cementing their top-four standing and staying in the race for the minor premiership.
Racking up their equal-most points of the season, the Warriors scored a season-high eight tries and conceded just one try for the fourth time in 2026.
The 26-6 halftime scoreline also represented their most first-half points this season, beating their tally against the Roosters in Round 1 (22-6), the Titans in Round 7 (22-0) and Broncos in Round 11 (22-0).
With the Warriors enjoying an eye-watering 58 percent possession and completing at a more familiar 81 percent (to the Titans’ dismal 66 percent), they crushed the Titans in the run metres (2,311 to 1,501) and post-contact metres (774 to 518) departments, as well as pouring through for 12 line-breaks and breaking 48 tackles.
The Warriors’ average set distance clocked in at a massive 53.74 metres, to the Titans’ 37.53.
Crowded market
The crowd at Cbus Super Stadium (25,181) was the third-biggest for a Warriors-Titans match, behind only the 2010 qualifying final (27,026) and the Round 7 clash in 2008 (25,310), which were also both at Robina.
The past eight matches between the clubs at all venues (starting in the last round in 2022) have attracted crowds of more than 20,000 — unprecedented in any rivalry in the Warriors’ history.
The next-most consecutive games involving the Warriors and another club to get 20,000-plus attendances is six matches against the Broncos from 2009-11. The past five Warriors-Broncos clashes have had crowds of at least 22,000 and is sure to sail past that mark at Suncorp Stadium again in Round 24.
Split the differential
The Warriors’ for-and-against now sits at +226 — the club’s highest ever outside of eight weeks of the 2002 season.
The 2002 Warriors peaked at +264 with three rounds remaining, before suffering a 44-0 defeat to the Roosters. The minor premiers finished the regular season with a points differential of +236.
Last season, Andrew Webster’s side wound up with a mere +21 for-and-against record, while the 2023 vintage had a points differential of +124 — third in the club’s history behind the 2002 side and the 2007 combination (+149).
If the Warriors maintain their current points per game average (28.32), they will finish with 679 points — just shy of the 2002 outfit’s record 688.
Meanwhile, they are conceding only 16.42 points per game; extending that to the end of the regular season would see the Warriors end up with 394 points against. The 2011 team conceded a record low 393 points.
