Longer than a Raiders-Broncos finals match, with three times as much head butting, it’s our 2025 NRL Finals Week 2 Tips Predictions & Stats Preview.
Our NRL Finals edition of our weekly tips blab is a quick preview glance for each match, a bunch of barely interesting stats, a pinch of opinion, and some bonus finals and 2025 season stats. It’s all you can eat NRL stats.
2025 NRL Finals Week 2 Tips
Here are our tips for the week ahead. How did we get to here? By going through all the visuals and stats below.
CANBERRA by 1
PENRITH by 16
2025 NRL Finals Week 2 Tips Match Thoughts
Looking for a cheat sheet for the weekend’s upcoming games?
What about some finals stats?
Or some barely interesting facts?
Here’s as much information that we could cram into one size fits all visual.
Finals record goes back to 1998.
SAT 7:50pm – CANBERRA v CRONULLA @ Canberra Stadium
FINALS H2H – Canberra 3 Cronulla 1
@ Canberra – Canberra 2 Cronulla 1
Saturday 2025 Win % – Canberra 63% Cronulla 67%
Cronulla lead the Finals H2H on a Saturday 2-1.
Cronulla have won one of 16 away finals games since 1998. The only win was against Canberra in 2016.
Cronulla have also lost eight of nine finals games away on a Saturday.
Canberra have now lost their last three finals games, which also broke a three game finals winning streak at home.
Canberra have won their last three finals on a Saturday which includes two wins v Melbourne and one v Cronulla.
Canberra’s win earlier this season broke a run of three straight losses to the Sharks.
Canberra have won six of their last seven at home to Cronulla and the last two on a Saturday.
Canberra are W4 L1 at home on a Saturday this season v all sides.
Cronulla are W3 L2 away from home on a Saturday this season.
SUN 4:05PM – BULLDOGS v PENRITH @ Olympic Stadium
FINALS H2H – Bulldogs 2 Penrith 1
@ Olympic Stadium – Bulldogs 1 Penrith 0 (2014)
Sunday 2025 Win % – Bulldogs 86% Penrith 100%
Bulldogs have lost their last five finals games with a last win in 2015.
But the Bulldogs have won the only Finals game v Penrith at the Olympic Stadium.
Excluding Grand Finals the Bulldogs Finals record v Sydney teams at the Olympic Stadium is W4 L3.
Bulldogs have lost their last three Sunday finals games at the Olympic Stadium.
Whilst it helps to win a lot of Grand Finals, Penrith are still W9 L1 on a Sunday in Finals.
And W10 L2 at the Olympic Stadium.
Penrith have won their last three away Finals games.
Penrith’s 72% win rate at the Olympic Stadium since 2020 is higher than the Bulldogs’ 48%. Since 1998 for no good reason it is Bulldogs 54% and Penrith 47%.
Penrith have won eight of their last nine v Bulldogs, with the infamous 16 player resting game the only loss.
Penrith lead the H2H v bulldogs at the Olympic Stadium since 1998 by nine wins to eight.
Penrith have won nine Sunday games in a row, and have won all Sunday games this season.
Penrith have also won the last five games on a Sunday v Bulldogs with a last win in 2006.
Penrith have won six in a row away to Sydney sides on a Sunday. And their last five on a Sunday away to anyone.
Bulldogs are W6 L1 on a Sunday.
2025 NRL Finals Week 2 Stats
Answering the big questions ahead of the NRL Finals starting. Which teams have done best against their finals opponents. And so much more.
FINALS TEAMS v FINALS TEAMS RECORD IN 2025
FINALS TEAMS v EACH OTHER IN FINALS
