Two down, and another two NRL Finals pretenders are shown the door this weekend with knock out rugby league now the norm. Talking of Life Be In It, our 2024 NRL Finals Week 2 Tips Predictions & Stats Preview are ready is life ready and awaiting your reading activity.
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, some spicy tips and you have a rugby league soup with probably more flavour than one could ever need or want. It’s all you can eat NRL stats.
2024 NRL Finals Week 2 Matches
Fri 7:50 pm – Cronulla v North Queensland @ Allianz Stadium
Sat 7:50 pm – Roosters v Manly Warringah @ Allianz Stadium
2024 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.
SEASON PROGRESS: 132/208 (63%)
READ MORE: Our 2024 Match Centre Home
2024 NRL Finals Week 2 Weekly H2H Stats
Looking for a cheat sheet for the weekend’s upcoming games?
Here’s as much information that we could cram into one size fits all visual.
Plus our famed barely interesting stats all in the one place for this week of fewer games.
North Queensland have won three of their last four at Allianz Stadium. Cronulla have lost three of their last four. North Queensland have won the last match v Cronulla at the ground. But Cronulla lead the H2H there by 2-1.
Overall Cronulla have won 11 of the last 13 matches v Cowboys.
Cronulla have also won 10 of the last 12 home games v Cowboys.
Cronulla have won 13/16 home games on a Saturday v Cowboys.
North Queensland have won three of four away games on a Saturday this season, all against Sydney teams.
North Queensland have beaten Penrith and the Roosters away this season, but were beaten by Cronulla.
North Queensland lead the Finals H2H by 3-2.
Roosters have won four straight home games v Manly, although only one has been at Allianz Stadium.
Roosters have won 4/5 at Allianz on a Saturday since it re-opened.
Since 2023, Manly have lost 6/7 away games on a Saturday to Sydney teams.
Manly’s win over the Bulldogs last Sunday was only their 2nd win away from home in finals since 1998 from 15 games. The Sea Eagles have lost their last three finals games at Allianz Stadium on a Saturday.
Manly’s only away game in the finals on a Saturday was against the Roosters in 2013, where they lost 4-0.
Roosters have now lost four of their last five finals games.
Rooster have won five Saturday finals games in a row and 12 of their last 14.
Roosters lead the Finals H2H v Manly by 2-1.
2024 NRL Finals Week 2 – Finals Series Stats
Heading into the 2024 NRL Finals Series, it’s time to check a few stats for each of the finals team’s records this season against the other top teams, across other seasons and their finals record in general. In case you needed more stats.
FINALS RECORDS SINCE 1998 / 2020
WEEK 2 FINALS GAMES – FINALS H2H RECORDS SINCE 1998
2024 NRL Season Stats Summary
