2024 Round 2 Broncos v South Sydney – BRISBANE BRONCOS 28 – SOUTH SYDNEY 18
Brisbane are on the board in 2024 after a comfortable win at Lang Park.
While it was a scrappy first half, Brisbane did enough to lead 12-0 at half-time.
Souths struck back quickly: tries to Siliva Havili and Davvy Moale levelling the score five minutes into the second half.
But Brisbane dominated from there, with Reece Walsh and Deine Mariner both scoring their second tries of the game.
It wasn’t all good news for Brisbane, with Adam Reynolds going off with a knee injury after 50 minutes and Walsh taking over goalkicking duties.
Latrell Mitchell scored a consolation try in the final minute. The result sets up two Round 3 blockbusters: Penrith against Brisbane at BlueBet Stadium and the Sydney Roosters against Souths at Allianz Stadium (SFS).
FINAL THOUGHT:
South Sydney were terrible again, and their first half was so bad it was almost a thing to marvel at. New ways of giving away the ball and penalties. Like losing an attacking scrum, kicking the ball into your player, and forgetting the new rules on multiple occasions.
Broncos showed glimpses of brilliance but are still not at their 2023 best. They look capable of plenty more and Reece Walsh and Selwyn Cobbo were great.
Souths look like a rabble and look bottom half material for sure right now. And their coach looking at being the first sacking of the season.
Courtesy of nrl.com
After leading the competition in Round 11 last season, South Sydney have won just four of the next 15 games.
Broncos have now won 10 of their last 12 Round 2 games in the NRL.
Souths last lost both of their opening games of the season in 2022.
The last two teams to lose at Suncorp Stadium both scored 18 points.
Brisbane’s victory was just their second win in 12 home games at Suncorp Stadium on a Thursday night.
The loss broke a run of four wins in a row at Suncorp Stadium for Souths. And is a third straight loss to Qld sides anywhere.
It’s a half-arsed weekend of Premier League and it deserves no less than our half-arsed Premier League Week 29 Predictions and useful stats.
Although we considered not bothering, that would be disrespectful to the teams Ipswich Town will hopefully be playing next season. And to ourselves.
Each week we provide a meandering look into the upcoming round of Premier League football, with not only our predictions for the upcoming Premier League fixtures but offer up a wide range of H2H and in-season stats and barely interesting facts.
2023-24 Premier League Week 29 Fixtures
2023-24 Premier League Week 29 Predictions
Here are our fearless predictions for the fixtures ahead, and tune in below for all the stats and barely interesting stats that go along with them.
Burnley 1 Brentford 2
Luton 2 Nottingham Forest 2
Fulham 1 Spurs 4
West Ham 0 Aston Villa 3
Season Progress: 48% – 126/265 – Correct Scores – 16
(Tech Issues GW 6 – not including GW25/28 Midweek Games)
2023-24 Premier League Week 29 Best Stats
Need a reason to pick one team over another, or just have a stat ready to impress friends and family, either way you are welcome to our favourite stats of the current gameweek.
BUR v BRE – Burnley have the worst home record this season with just one win, averaging 0.36 points per game at home, and scoring at less than a goal per game.
BUR v BRE – Burnley (W2 D2) are unbeaten in their last four home games on a Saturday v Brentford.
BUR v BRE – Brentford have lost seven of their last eight away games.
BUR v BRE – Brentford have lost all of their away games v bottom six teams (bottom six at time of fixture).
LUT v NFO – Luton, along with Sheffield Utd, are the only teams not to beat a bottom six team (at time of match) at home this season (D1 L2)
LUT v NFO – Nottingham Forest are unbeaten (W1 D2) v promoted teams this season.
LUT v NFO – Luton are unbeaten (W2 D3) in their last five v Nottingham Forest.
LUT v NFO – Nottingham Forest have won four of the last six v Luton on a Saturday.
LUT v NFO – Luton have lost three in a row at home leading into this clash.
FUL v TOT – Tottenham are one of two teams that haven’t been beaten away by a London club this season. The other team has won all their London away games and will be up next.
FUL v TOT – Spurs (W9 D1) are unbeaten in their last ten games v Fulham. And six in a row on a Saturday.
FUL v TOT – Spurs have won seven in a row at Fulham too.
FUL v TOT – Spurs have an ordinary W2 D2 L1 record away to middle eight sides (at time of match).
WHU v AVL – Aston Villa have won all five away games to London clubs this season.
WHU v AVL – West Ham have lost both home games to teams inside the top six at time of match. And by a combined 1-9.
WHU v AVL – West Ham have never lost to Aston Villa at home on a Sunday – W1 D4.
2023-24 Gurgler Team Ratings Form-O-Meter
With fewer games than ever, we decided to come up with our own Ratigns system to see if the ladder is lying or not.
We have taken various stats, calculated the best score and each team’s score is a % of the top rated score.
Here is the Gurgler EPL Ratings ahead of this weekend. Arsenal for the title then.
2023-24 English Premier League Current Season Stats
A quick look at the current state of play in the Premier League. An alternative table, form summary, points per game at home or away, v opposition and expected goals. So many.
The Gurgler loves an NRL stat or two or ten, and since you’re here we presume you do too. Whether you use NRL stats to impress friends in the workplace, build the best Supercoach side or enjoy a responsible wager or two, we try and provide enough info to help. This edition is trying to cram in as many key stats, offering quantity and quality with our NRL Player Stats 2024.
Each week we will keep an eye on who are the best metre eaters, who breaks the most tackles and lines, and throw in who is making the most errors or giving away the most penalties.
Here’s a snapshot of the best of player stats from the latest round of the NRL, before we go diving into the whole season stats.
NRL Player Stats 2024 – Metres
The best metre eaters are here. Be it All Run Metre machine like the back three at Penrith, or the barging force that is the best at the Post Contact Metres.
Line Breaks & Tackle Breaks
Rugby league players are good at breaking, and here are the 2024 NRL Players stats for Line Breaks and Tackle Breaks.
Assists
Some rugby league players live to give and lay on the try assists and line break assists for others to get the glory. Here we celebrate the 2024 season’s best so far.
Errors & Penalties
Players aren’t always perfect, but some players are occasionally less perfect than the others. Here are the stats for most errors in 2024.
NRL Player Stats 2024 Current Season Summary
NRL Player Stats 2024 – Historical Round Summaries
Here are the round by round player stats summaries for those who need to know from back in the day.
The Gurgler loves an NRL stat, and lots of them, and since you’re here we presume you do too. Whether you use NRL stats to impress friends in the workplace, look for love on the internet, build the best Supercoach side or enjoy a responsible wager or two, we try and provide enough info to help. This edition is trying to cram in as many key stats, offering quantity and quality with our NRL Team Stats 2024.
Each week we will keep an eye on who are the best metre eaters, who breaks the most tackles and lines, and throw in who is making the most errors or giving away the most penalties.
A quick run down of all the results from the 2024 NRL Season. And the best of the stats into which team does best on a certain day, time, against a certain team etc.
NRL Team Stats 2024 – Point Scoring
Going beyond the ladder, here are the point scoring trends of the NRL teams home or away, or against top/bottom half side.
NRL Team Stats 2024 – HT-FT Summary
They say some games can be a tale of two halves. To justify such comment, here are some stats for the 2024 NRL season.
NRL Team Stats 2024 – All Stats Summary
Before we dive into the stats in detail, here are the stats summary for all the teams this season.
Run Metres & Post Contact Metres
The best metre eaters are here. Be it All Run Metre machine like the back three at Penrith, or the barging force that is the best at the Post Contact Metres.
Line Breaks & Tackle Breaks
Rugby league players are good at breaking, and here are the 2024 NRL Players stats for Line Breaks and Tackle Breaks.
Errors and Penalties
Who’s not the messiah and been a naughty boy? Well, the players in this list who have committed the most on-field crimes. And players aren’t always perfect, but some players are occasionally less perfect than the others. Here are the stats for most errors in 2024 too.
NRL Team Stats 2024 – Round by Round Stats History
The NRL is back for 2024 and the Round 1 results were a shocker for many tipsters and punters around the world, some even getting all of the Round 1 Tips wrong. Talking of wrong, our stat-filled preview of the upcoming weekend of rugby league is on hand to help with our 2024 NRL Round 2 Tips Predictions & Stats Preview.
Each week we offer up a quick preview glance for each match, throw in a bunch of barely interesting stats, and mix in a pinch of opinion, and you have a rugby league soup with probably more than one could ever need or want.
2024 NRL Round 2 Tips – This Week’s Matches
Here are our tips for the week ahead. How did we get to here? By going through all the visuals and stats below.
Brisbane
v
South Sydney
Thursday, 8:00 pm
Suncorp Stadium
Cronulla
v
Bulldogs
Friday, 6:00 pm
Allegiant Stadium
Penrith
v
Parramatta
Friday, 8:05 pm
BlueBet Stadium
Canberra
v
Wests Tigers
Saturday, 3:00 pm
GIO Stadium
North Queensland
v
Newcastle
Saturday, 5:30 pm
Queensland Country Bank Stadium
Melbourne
v
Warriors
Saturday, 7:35 pm
AAMI Park
Manly Warringah
v
Roosters
Sunday, 4:05 pm
4 Pines Park
Dolphins
v
St George Illawarra
Sunday, 6:15 pm
Kayo Stadium
2024 NRL Round 2 Tips – This Week’s Tips
BRISBANE to beat South Sydney
CRONULLA to beat Bulldogs
PENRITH to beat Parramatta
CANBERRA to beat Wests Tigers
NORTH QLD to beat Newcastle
MELBOURNE to beat Warriors
ROOSTERS to beat Manly
DOLPHINS to beat Dragons
Here we take the best points of interest for each match coming up this weekend and share them with you for no cost. Feel free to share with friends and family.
46% of the teams who win a Round 1 game going back through the last ten seasons have lost their Round 2 fixture.
THU – BRI v SOU – Brisbane have lost ten of their last 11 home games at Suncorp Stadium on a Thursday night. Broncos have scored over 12 points just three times in that 11 game run and conceded 50 points or more twice.
THU – BRI v SOU – South Sydney have won four in a row and seven of their last eight away to Queensland sides.
FRI – CRO v BULL – Cronulla have won 11 of their last 13 games v Bulldogs.
FRI – CRO v BULL – Cronulla have won four in a row at Shark Park v Bulldogs.
FRI – CRO v BULL – Cronulla have won five in a row at Shark Park on a Friday.
FRI – CRO v BULL – Cronulla won all three games on a Friday in 2023. And have now won six in a row on a Friday.
FRI – CRO v BULL – Bulldogs lost all three games on a Friday in 2023. And have lost 13 of their last 14 Friday.
FRI – CRO v BULL – Bulldogs last won an away game on a Friday in 2019. Eight games ago.
FRI – PEN v PAR – Parramatta have won four of their last six games v Penrith and two of the last three on a Friday.
FRI – PEN v PAR – Penrith have won 20 of their last 22 home games on a Friday going back to 2020. Their only two losses came against Parramatta.
FRI – PEN v PAR – Parramatta lost their last three Friday games in 2023, conceding an average of 45 points across those games.
SAT – CAN v WT – Canberra have won 7/7 home games v bottom half opponents since 2022. Bottom half at time of match.
SAT – CAN v WT – Canberra won 10/13 games in 2023 v Sydney opposition.
SAT – Wests Tigers lost all six games last season away to non Sydney teams.
SAT – West Tigers have lost their last three away games on a Saturday in 2023, scoring 8, 0, and 0 in the process.
SAT – NQL v NEW – Newcastle have lost 19 games in a row when playing away to a Queensland side in Queensland. Their last win was in 2015.
SAT – NQL v NEW – Newcastle do quite well in Qld v non Qld opposition though, winning five of their last six in Queensland v n on-Qld sides. Thanks to Covid and Magic Round.
SAT – NQL v NEW – Since 1998, Newcastle have won just five of 27 away games in Queensland.
SAT – NQL v NEW – North Queensland have won six in a home at home on a Saturday v NSW opposition. Averaging 38.6 points a game.
SAT – NQL v NEW – North Queensland have won seven in a row at home to Newcastle and 10 of the last 11 home games.
SAT – MEL v NZ – Melbourne have won 14 straight v Warriors. And the last nine at home.
SAT – MEL v NZ – Melbourne have won only three of their last ten home games on a Saturday to opposition outside of Qld. And lost 2/3 at home on a Saturday in 2023 v top eight opponents.
SAT – MEL v NZ – New Zealand have won five of seven matches v Melbourne in Melbourne on a Saturday. Including the only game played on a Saturday at AAMI Park, although that was back in 2011.
SAT – MEL v NZ – Warriors won 3/7 away games on a Saturday in 2023.
SAT – MEL v NZ – Melbourne’s record in Round 1 is outstanding, but their Round 2 results from the past ten seasons is less so. They have won six and lost four. But it is better than the Warriors at W2 L8.
SUN – MAN v ROO – Manly’s record at home to the Roosters on a Sunday is W6 L2. Including an 18-16 win last season.
SUN – MAN v ROO – Roosters record on a Sunday in 2023 was W2 L4. Manly’s Sunday record overall in 2023 was W5 L2.
SUN – MAN v ROO – Since 2019 Manly have won 13/16 games on a Sunday v Sydney opposition. Roosters are 7/10.
SUN – DOL v STGI (Kayo) Dolphins are 2/3 at Kayo Stadium.
SUN – DOL v STGI – St George Illawarra have lost seven in a row on Sunday.
SUN – DOL v STGI – St George Illawarra did lose all their away games in 2023, and since 2020 have won just 10 of 46 away games. Over the past 10 season, the Dragons away winning record of 30.5% is the worst. For the record the best away winning is Melbourne with 69.5%
Here are The Gurgler’s 2024 Saudi Arabia Grand Prix Ratings – our way of rating the performances of all the drivers from the latest race in Saudi Arabia, where the race was won Max Verstappen to no surprise, but the bigger performance came from 18 year Ferrari fill-in driver Oliver Bearman.
Our G-Power Rankings goes a little bit deeper than just points scored on the Sunday and has a slightly cooler name than most. We take on board Free Practice, Qualifying, performance in relation to teammate, fastest lap, and a few more stats that are attempting to highlight a driver outperforming the car and/or thrashing their teammate.
Plus, we have a range of stats and barely interesting facts from the 2024 F1 Season so far. Not much yet, but more to come as the season progresses. So much to read in so little time.
Here are the current overall standings for our Driver of the Year winner – the Martini Medal. Named in honour of one of F1’s most unsung heroes – Pierluigi Martini of Minardi fame.
We have the overall scores as they stand, plus a visual which shows the flow of each driver’s position throughout the season, plus a few points of interest below.
Here is the breakdown of the Driver of the Year points from the most recent race and the season so far.
LATEST RACE RATINGS
2024 Bahrain Grand Prix Ratings – Teams
This is essentially using the same drivers stats but in reverse for the worst score, but taking out anything that is a H2H between the drivers.
And our annual award focuses on the other end of the grid, highlighting the worst team of the season.
Of course, the worst team of the season award needs to be named after the worst F1 team of all time. And if you want to fund out more about Andrea Moda, follow this link.
LATEST RACE RATINGS
Here are the choicest of cuts from the F1 data we compile for season 2024, we a few hand picked barely interesting points to share below.
McLaren the big improves in qualifying compared to last season in Saudi Arabia – they improved their gap to pole position by 1.2%. Half the field had a worse % of pole resulkt for the 2024 edition, including Ferrari, Mercedes and Aston Martin.
Our new all session H2H shows some interesting H2H battles. Highlights the dominance of Max Verstappen. On the track. No measure for off the track. Yet.
Valtteri Bottas continues his usual trend of going backwards on the first lap. He has a double negative so far in 2024.
The drivers have mostly kept to the same Qualifying session segment so far in 2024.
DRIVER 2024 H2H RECORD
Beating your team mate in F1 is very important, which is why we keep an eye on the H2H stats through the season.
New for this week is the overall H2H. Which means the H2H from every session – FP and Qualifying, plus who set a faster Fastest Lap and two point for beating the team mate in the race. Note: both have to feature in same Q session for H2H point.
2024 F1 QUALIFYING STATS
Here our qualifying analysis covers just about everything we could find on qualifying.
QUALIFYING SUMMARY
QUALIFYING COMPARISON FROM 2023 SEASON to 2024 SEASON
QUALIFYING COMPARISON FROM 2023 SAUDI ARABIA GP TO 2024 SAUDI ARABIA GP
FIRST LAP POSITION + GRID TO RACE RESULT GAINS
Races can’t be won or lost at the first corner, well actually they can be lost at the first corner, and a good one can make all the difference. Unless you drive a Red Bull, then it doesn’t really matter.
So here are the stats on the lightning fast starters and the slow pokes.
FREE PRACTICE
Some say Free Practice is a giant waste of time, and they are probably right. Regardless here is the average position for each drivers in Free Practice this season. Each round an average of all the sessions.
FASTEST LAP
A quick look at the Fastest Lap stats for 2024.
Current Race Power Rankings in Detail
2024 F1 Season Power Rankings – Points Explanation
Here’s how the points work this season. Essentially the perfect race (Win from Pole, Fastest Lap, thrash team mate, best in race etc) should amount to the perfect 100 points.
FIRST LAP GAINS +0.5pts per position gained -0.5pts per position lost.
CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS – 25pts to 1pt as per World Championship – Sprint Race Points added.
BEAT TEAM MATE (RACE) – 10pts (if both finish or other driver got self inflicted DNF)
FASTEST LAP – 5pts – 1pt for top five drivers.
GRID POSITION TO RACE POSITION – formula +/- relative finish to grid
BEST OF THE REST (RACE) – 5pts to 1pt – top five non Mercedes-Red Bull drivers
QUALIFYING – 20pts to 1pt – Grid Position 1 to 20.
BEAT TEAM MATE (QUALIFYING) – 5pts
BEST OF THE REST (QUALIFYING) – 5pts to 1pt – top five non Mercedes-Red Bull drivers
GREAT/GRAPE – 5pts Great 2pts Honourable Mention -2Pts Dishonourable Mention -5Pts Grape
BEAT TEAM MATE (QUALIFYING) Time Gap – Formula for % beaten team mate by
BEAT TEAM MATE (QUALIFYING) Position – 0.5 Pts for every position team mate is beaten by. 0 points for second car.
FREE PRACTICE HERO – 10Pts to 1Pt – Average Position across all three practice sessions.
WIN FROM POLE – Bonus 5 Points
WIN FROM POLE WITH FASTEST LAP – Bonus 10 Points
DNF Not Driver or Team Fault Minus 2 Points
DNF CAUSED BY DRIVER/TEAM INCOMPETENCE Minus 5 Points
SPRINT RACE POINTS – Points 8 to 1 as handed out in the sprint race.
SPRINT RACE CHANGE – 0.5 Points per change in end position to starting position.
SPRINT RACE QUAL – Points 8 to 1 as handed out in the order of qualifying 1st to 8th.
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An “aggressive and boisterous” video game reality show will air on Channel 9 from Easter Sunday.
Noob Hunters features 16 games, divided into eight ‘pros’ (professional Esports competitors) and eight ‘noobs’ (enthusiasts amateurs).
The first eight episodes see the pros and noobs play each other in a round robin format, with one video game across all eight fixtures (to be decided via Noob Hunters’ social media pages). The 16 gamers will be ranked based on high scores, with the top eight playing knockout quarter-finals, semi-finals, and a best-of-five grand final series with a variety of game genres. Hamish and Andy will host, while a panel of local video game journalists will award bonus points based on ‘style of play’, ‘smack talk’, and ‘extravagance of celebrations’.
Peter Foges, the show’s producer (and former Esports champion), encourages the pros to embrace the mismatches.
“Most reality shows thrive on conflict and drama. So we want our pros to be as aggressive and boisterous as possible. Celebrate wins with style and rub the noobs’ noses into it. If the noobs cry on air, then even better. That stuff is perfect for our TV promos and social media content,” said Peter.
”We wanted to call it Noob Pwners,but the dinosaurs at Nine said ‘nobody will understand it or know how to pronounce it.’ If you don’t know what ‘pwners’ means, then you probably play s****y mobile games and don’t deserve to watch this show!”
Want more NRL information than just the draw, results or the current ladder? Then you are in the right place and the right time with the home of Stats and Stuff via our 2024 NRL Round 1 Stats Summary for the weekend that was.
Each week we compile and keep up to date a wide range of stats from the latest weekend of NRL action plus the best 2024 NRL Season Stats to help you to the top of the tipping competition, land a few responsible winners or even make your Supercoach team better. And now with a match by match summary full of all the stats you need and/or want.
2024 NRL Round 1 Stats Summary
NRL Round 1 Stats Summary – Points of Interest
That’s nine straight for the Roosters on a Saturday v Qld opposition.
Broncos won all their games on a Saturday in 2023 vs Sydney teams, but 0% thus far in 2024.
That’s now two losses in a row for Queensland sides playing in USA.
It was Manly’s first win over South Sydney since April 2019 and broke a run of seven straight defeats.
The win was only Manly’s third in 12 first round matches.
That’s now four losses from four games at McDonald Jones Stadium on a Thursday for Newcastle.
Newcastle’s loss broke a run of six Newcastle Round 1 wins at home. It also broke a run of six straight wins at home.
It was only Canberra’s sixth win away to Newcastle in 20 games since 1998.
The 12 points conceded by Canberra was their lowest since beating Wests Tigers 56-10 in September 2022.
Cronulla’s win over the Warriors was just their third Round 1 win since 2010.
Warriors are now 1/6 v Cronulla on a Friday. Cronulla have won their last six on a Friday.
Of the 56 times the Warriors have scored exactly 12 points since 1998, they have won five games. And none of the last 21 now.
According to our match stats above, Cronulla lost every one of our key H2H Stats comparisons except score.
It’s only the seventh time since 1998 that a team has been kept scoreless in Round 1. Penrith did it previously in 2007. They also kept North Qld pointless in 2021, the second time the Cowboys scored zero in Round 1.
Four teams have scored zero in a season and still gone on to win the premiership – Penrith 2022, Melbourne 2020, Bulldogs 2004, Brisbane 2000. Three of those four occurrences happen in leap years. And 2024 is also a leap year.
Melbourne are just the third side to score eight points or less in a Round 1 clash and win – Bulldogs in 2022 and Parramatta in 2020.
Melbourne last lost a Round 1 clash in 2001.
Penrith last won a Round 1 away from home in 2006.
It is only the fourth time Melbourne have kept a team scoreless on a Friday.
Parramatta have won 14 of their last 17 v Bulldogs.
Parramatta have won eight of their last nine at home to Bulldogs and conceded 12 points or less in all of those eight games.
Parramatta have won 10 of their 11 Saturday games at Commbank Stadium v all opposition.
It is St George Illawarra’s first away win since August 2022 after they lost all of their away games in 2023.
Gold Coast have won just 1/7 v Dragons at home on a Saturday. And now just one in 10 v Dragons anywhere on a Saturday.
Gold Coast have won just three of 16 games at home on a Saturday v Sydney opposition.
Dragons broke a run of seven away losses in a row v Qld teams.
That’s now 4/5 for the Dragons in Round 1 in Queensland venues. And 3/3 in Round 1 v Gold Coast.
Gold Coast have scored six points or less in four of their last six Round 1 games.
The last time Dragons conceded six points or less was in July 2022.
The last time the Dragons conceded six points or less away from home was April 2017.
North Queensland’s 43 points was the third highest score by an away team in Round 1.
NRL Round 1 Stats Summary
Some weekly stats and additional interesting visuals for the weekend that was.
Top/Bottom based on final 2023 ladder position for this round.
NRL Round 1 Stats Summary – H2H Match by Match Summary
All eight games with all the stats you could ever want or need.
The Gurgler loves an NRL stats, and since you’re here we presume you do too. Whether you use NRL stats to impress friends in the workplace, build the best Supercoach side or enjoy a responsible wager or two, we try and provide enough info to help. This edition is all about the First Try Scorer & Last Try Scorer.
Each week we will keep an eye on which players, which teams and what positions are the best at scoring the first and last in the NRL.
What an incredible first round of NRL action it was. Star performances, tries galore, work horses giving it their all, and everyone else in between. But which players were the best of the best you ask? We’ll let the stats do the talking and separate the Wheat/Chaff to present the 2024 NRL Round 1 Player Stats and Team of the Week.
First we have our Team of the Week, which takes some of the key player stats from the weekend and using various scoring methods come up with the best players in their positions from the latest round of the NRL.
Then there’s additional player stats from this weekend and the best of the season so far for the ultimate NRL player stats summary.
2024 NRL Round 1 Player Stats & Team of the Week
We’ve used the stats for each position and picked the best starting 13 players from the most recent round, the stats and points assigned are explained at the end.
On top of the best starting 13, we include the best four interchange players of the week. Seeing who has provided maximum impact from the bench.
Plus we throw in the players we thought were great but the stats did not with Gurgler’s Choice.
2024 NRL Round 1 Player Stats
Want to see which players topped the key stats for the latest round of the NRL this weekend?
INTERESTING STATS FROM THIS ROUND
Most of the top players for Tackle Breaks in Round 1 played in losing sides.
Terrell May made 93 Post Contact Metres from the bench. The only player in the top ten for that stat to do so.
Zac Lomax topped Post Contact Metres, and it was only the second time he passed 100 metres in one match for our records going back to 2022. And the other was in 2022.
Although five errors in one game isn’t great, the most in one game according to our records going back to 2022 is eight by Jason Saab in 2022.
Jesse Arthars’ 197 Run Metres is better than any effort in 2023.
Reece Walsh gave away three penalties v Roosters. He gave away 15 in 2023.
Ezra Mam topped the Missed Tackles count for Broncos v Roosters, his nine was double his 2023 average per game.
Richie Kennar scored the first and last try in the opening game, that happened just eight times last season and was done twice by fellow Souths players.
A clean sweep for Newcastle utility Pheonix Crossland in the match against Canberra. He gave up the most errors, missed tackles and penalties.
That’s the third time since the start of 2023 that Addin Fonua-Blake has scored the first try. He also has scored the last try of the game twice over the same period.
How the Team of the Week works
Want to know how we come up with the numbers to rank the players, the below table should explain hopefully.
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