Another round of rugby league action is done and dusted, and before it is boxed and ready for export to PNG, we thought we’d improve people’s Mondays just a little with our NRL Round 5 Results Stats Review.
Instead of just providing the scores and the scorers, we dive a little further into the stats to provide a handful of barely interesting stats to get your working week started.
Feel free to share and claim as your own and enjoy the NRL Round 5 Results Stats Review.
NRL ROUND 5 RESULTS MAIN STATS
RUGBY LEAGUE NRL BUNDABERG RUM CONSPIRACY
Rugby League players are super athletes, and getting better every year.
Did you know that all players from every game have run a collective 130.90km already this season.
Imagine then if you multiplied total run metres for all teams by ten and then walked the 1309km.
Starting in Sydney, going up the Pacific Hwy, you could make stops at glamour locations like Byron Bay, Gold Coast and Redcliffe before your journey would end in Rum City.
Conspiracy theory then that the NRL coverage has Bundaberg Rum splashed (pardon the pun) all over the coverage and that this run metres x ten ends in Bundaberg?
We don’t think the NRL are that smart. Well except for Peter V’Landys we guess.
BRIAN TO’O GOOD
Penrith’s blockbusting winger is also the stat busting player of the NRL so far. Here are the best of his stats.
- To’o tops the run metres at 1,121m.
- To’o is also top of the post contact metres at 420m
- Tackle Breaks? Yep, top of this too with 36.
- Line breaks? Not as good as Viliame Kikau’s seven, but his six is good enough for equal third.
- He’s also made the second most number of run at 108. Roger Tuivasa-Sheck is the only other player over 100 runs this season so far with 120.
- To’o is behind Blake Ferguson for NRL Supercoach points in third for CTW.
BITS AND PIECES
- Brian To’o has more Post Contact Metres this season so far (420) than James Tamou, Wade Graham and Kenny Bromwich have run metres.
- The Cowboys win over the Tigers was their first at Leichhardt Oval since 2000. They had lost their previous eight matches on the ground.
- Penrith’s win over Canberra on Friday was the first win for the Panthers at Penrith Stadium over Canberra on a Friday since our records can be bothered going back (1998). It was also the first game between Canberra and Penrith at Penrith Stadium on a Friday.
- Souths were last beaten by a Qld side at home in April 2018, eight games ago.
- Two weeks in a row the Wests Tigers have scored the most points in defeat. In fact, those 52 points in two games is still more than both Manly and the Bulldogs have managed in five games this season.
- The Warriors are currently top for Post Contact Metres yet fourth last for tackle breaks.
- The Titans (31) have made as many line breaks as the Panthers.
