Meli stats in attack look good

Very impressed with Walker's defence, but the downside for me is Jones' go forward, or lack of it. He offers nothing in attack I'm afraid.

The one thing stats don't mention is that Hohaia was playing his first game after missing three with his shoulder injury.

Stats don't give any indication of the game beyond the raw numbers. Ade missed a lot of tackles - but why? Walkers tackling stats were fantastic - but why? the only way stats can be genuinely used is in context with the real game. Warrington's outside backs are very quick and on at least 3 occasions was forced into making a snap decision due to an overlap. Walkers stats were so good because after the first 20 mins, the Wire pack picked up the pace and our central defenders had to do a lot of tackling. With 15 mins to go Wire had used 3 less interchanges and our pack was starting to tire.

My judgement on the stats are that Ade wasn't quite as bad as the stats suggest ( only one try down his side )., and Walkers performance was even more extraordinary given that he also bettered Roby's tackling stats.

Stats don't always tell the truth.

The best thing that came out of the game that the stats don't cover was our ability to close out the game. This was down to good defence, kicking, discipline and good mistake free rugby in attack. Given how we have lost some big leads over the last few years it is good to see we were able to play in the correct way for this situation.

Kicking out of dummy half was especially good, Roby's kicking game is so underrated.