A statistical snapshot of the Warriors’ overwhelmingly underwhelming 2024 NRL campaign.
Wins, losses and for-and-against
The Warriors’ 9-1-14 record (a 39.58 percent win rate) was equal-18th of their 30 seasons in terms of win percentage – and an identical record to Stephen Kearney’s post-SJ 2019 team.
The Warriors lost seven and drew one of 13 games as a favourite. They won four of 11 games as an underdog. The team had a 10-14 cover record in 2024.
The Warriors scored 512 points at 21.33 per game – 11th in the NRL. Their points per game average was down from 23.83 in 2023 but was their third-highest regular-season total in the past 10 seasons.
The Warriors conceded 574 points at 23.92 per game – ninth in the NRL. Last year they leaked just 18.67 points a game in the regular season. Their 2024 defensive effort rates equal-fourth over the club’s past 10 seasons.
The Warriors twice pieced together three-match winning streaks but otherwise did not win back-to-back games. They endured a pair of four-match losing runs, as well as losing back-to-back games on three other occasions.
The Warriors had a 4-1-5 record at Mt Smart Stadium (they won their other two ‘home’ games in Christchurch and at Magic Round) – their fourth-worst at the ground in the club’s history.
Appearances, tries and points
The Warriors used 31 players – placing them equal-eighth for least in the competition – and handed out three NRL debuts with a further two club debuts. But their line-up disruptions were emphasised by the fact that Addin Fonua-Blake and Mitch Barnett led the team with 23 appearances, with Dallin Watene-Zelezniak (22) and Wayde Egan (20) playing the next most games. Last season nine players made 20-plus appearances in the regular season.
The longest streak the Warriors fielded the same spine (1, 6, 7, 9) was five games, between Rounds 5 and 9.
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak finished as the Warriors’ top tryscorer with 15 from 22 games – equal-11th in the NRL. He also became just the second player to lead the Warriors’ tryscoring charts three years in a row and only the third Warrior to score 13-plus tries in consecutive campaigns. Addin Fonua-Blake was the club’s second-most prolific tryscorer with eight, placing him sixth in the competition among forwards and first among props, along with Marcelo Montoya.
Shaun Johnson was the Warriors’ top pointscorer with a modest 78 – the lowest team-leading tally in the NRL in 2024.
Warriors goalkickers converted their attempts at 74.51 percent (76 goals from 102 attempts) with Adam Pompey (24 goals at 77.42 percent) shading Shaun Johnson (29 goals at 76.32 percent) as the best of the team’s regular kickers. It’s only the second time in the past nine seasons their season percentage has dipped below 75 percent and ranked 13th in the NRL.
For the first time since 2008, no Warriors player kicked a field goal.
Attack
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak led the Warriors with 14 line-breaks (equal-31st in the NRL) ahead of Marcelo Montoya with 11 (equal-45th). The team’s 109 total line-breaks ranked 13th in the NRL.
Addin Fonua-Blake topped the Warriors’ tackle-break count with 84 – 20th in the NRL and fourth among forwards. Roger Tuivasa-Sheck (80), Dallin Watene-Zelezniak (76) and Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad (71) placed inside the top 50 in the competition. The Warriors’ total of 840 tackle-breaks was the seventh-highest in the league.
The Warriors led the NRL in set completion (82 percent), line engagements (624) and decoy runs (1,414).
The Warriors were second in the NRL for all run metres (42,623) and kick-return metres (4,692) behind only Penrith, and third in the NRL for post-contact metres (14,107) behind only Newcastle and Canberra. Addin-Fonua-Blake topped the competition for post-contact metres (1,698) and was fourth overall and the leading forward for run metres (4,031). Mitch Barnett landed ninth for post-contact metres (1,409) and 20th for run metres (3,442).
Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad had the fifth-best run metres average (202.9) in the NRL with Roger Tuivasa-Sheck (182.5) 13th. Addin Fonua-Blake’s post-contact metres average (73.8) was second only to one-game Panther Isaiah Iongi, while Tuivasa-Sheck was 10th overall (63.9).
Te Maire Martin (16 in 16 games) edged Shaun Johnson (15 in 16 games) for the most try assists by a Warriors player in 2024 – equal-11th and equal-14th in the NRL, respectively.
The Warriors ranked 13th in the NRL for offloads with an average of seven per game. Mitch Barnett (28), equal-21st in the NRL, was the team’s most prolific offloader, followed by Addin Fonua-Blake (24) and Dallin Watene-Zelezniak (21).
The Warriors were one of only two teams (with South Sydney) who did not register a 40/20 in 2024.
Defence
The Warriors ranked ninth in the NRL for tackles made (8,051) and had the third-least missed tackles (772).
Wayde Egan was the Warriors’ top tackler with 752 (25th in the NRL), followed by Mitch Barnett with 727 (32nd) and Jackson Ford with 710 (33rd). Egan’s average of 37.6 per game (18th in the NRL) pipped Ford’s 37.4 (20th) and Tohu Harris’ 36.9 (24th).
Wayde Egan was the only Warrior to rank inside the NRL’s top 50 for missed tackles, tallying 67 (equal-47th). Shaun Johnson’s 3.7 missed tackles per game (equal-24th in the NRL) was the most by any Warriors player.
Jackson Ford was one of only nine players to come up with more than one chargedown in 2024, while Dallin Watene-Zelezniak was third in the NRL for intercepts with five.
Discipline
The Warriors conceded 123 penalties, the equal-fifth-least in the NRL. Their tally of 241 errors was the third-least in the NRL.
Jackson Ford gave away the most penalties of any Warriors player with 14 (equal-16th in the NRL), while he was shaded by Rocco Berry’s 0.8 penalties conceded per game for the team’s worst average. Ford also conceded the most ruck infringements (7) with Mitch Barnett leading the way for most inside-the-10 set restarts given away (6).
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak was the Warriors’ most error-prone player, committing 28 across the season (equal-18th-highest in the NRL). Backline fill-ins Edward Kosi (1.8 per game) and Moala Graham-Taufa (1.7) had the highest error averages in the team (11th and 17th in the NRL, respectively).