THE extent of Warrington Wolves’ dominance over London Broncos is reinforced by a look at the match stats.

The figures on the Super League website make for encouraging reading for The Wire, with the Broncos unable to live with them physically throughout the game.

Here’s a few key stats from the Round Five game…

Too big and too strong

In the simplest possible terms, Warrington were just too big for London.

It was an area in which they were expected to dominate and they duly did, making nearly twice the metres of their hosts.

Wire’s players made 1,735 metres combined from 196 carries at an average of just over nine each. By contrast, London could manage just 907 metres between them from 146 carries (average 6.21 each).

Post-contact, Warrington made 786 metres compared to London’s 499 while they also broke through a staggering 56 tackles. In comparison, the home players busted just nine.

Monstrous middles

It comes as no surprise that Paul Vaughan was able to churn out more impressive metre-making, but 212 metres from 20 carries is impressive even by his standards.

For the third game in a row, Matt Dufty cleared the 200-metre mark and busted an incredible 13 tackles, with his hat-trick of tries plus an assist helping to stamp his mark as Super League’s form player.

Alongside Vaughan, all four of Wire’s recognised props reached three figures in terms of metres – Joe Bullock’s return from Hull FC saw him clock up 135, James Harrison was not far behind with 132 and Zane Musgrove nudged over the ton with 103.

In total, eight members of the Wire 17 made more than 100 metres, with Joe Philbin and Connor Wrench both just short with 99.

No London player got above 100, with their top metre-maker being centre Jarred Bassett with 97.

Improvement in some areas, work still needed in others

In their four games so far, Wire have struggled to keep a lid on their opponents in yardage and have tended to allow for too many easy metres.

On that front, this was certainly an improvement, with London’s kick return metres well down at 83.

However, Sam Burgess may feel his side can be a little tighter around the ruck, with the Broncos completing 10 dummy-half runs and being allowed to get 13 successful offloads away.