Stats the spirit: Running the Round 15 numbers 📊📉

Crunching the figures from the Warriors' hard-fought loss to Cronulla.

• Highs and low-scorers

• Home disadvantage

• TMM’s try spree

• Taine’s right-side bias

• Warriors confront NZ venue bogey

The Warriors were left to rue some crucial missed opportunities in the clutch during a 10-8 home loss to Cronulla on Saturday night.

In the lowest-scoring match of the 2026 NRL season so far, the adversaries scored a try apiece in the first half and were locked at 8-all into the dying minutes.

After Te Maire Martin had a field goal attempt brilliantly charged down by Will Kennedy, Braydon Trindall nailed only third two-point field goal this year to put the Sharks in front in the 79th minute.

The Warriors had a chance to send it into golden point on the bell, but Adam Pompey’s penalty attempt slid agonisingly wide.

The Warriors had only 45 percent possession and completed at a below par 79 percent, compared to the Sharks’ 84 percent. That considered, the Sharks had only small advantages in terms of run metres (1,535 to 1,414), post-contact metres (490 to 423) and average set distance (33.38 to 32.9).

The match finished with just two line-breaks apiece, while the Sharks broke 35 tackles to the Warriors’ 24. Penalties finished six apiece and the Sharks gave away three set restarts to one.

The 9-4 Warriors remain outright second — four points adrift of Penrith — but Manly, the Dolphins, Cronulla, Sydney Roosters and Newcastle sit just two points behind.

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Highs and low-scorers

Cronulla’s victory represented just the fifth time a team has scored 10 points or less against the Warriors and come away with the win.

WARRIORS OPPONENTS’ LOWEST WINNING SCORES

4-2 v Melbourne - Round 13, 2007

8-2 v Brisbane - Round 11, 2019

10-8 v Brisbane - Round 19, 2012

10-6 v Newcastle - Round 15, 2021

10-8 v Cronulla - Round 15, 2026

11-10 v Parramatta - Round 22, 2000