Some interesting stats from our last three seasons against Top 6 teams that doesn't auger well for the next few weeks.
In that time we have played the Top 6 of that season, including Finals matches, 21 times, for 8 wins and 13 losses. The for and against is 330-477, or an average of 15.7 for and 22.7 against.
The disturbing stat comes in the second half of the seasons. In the back half of the seasons, we have played 9 games against the Top 6, and so far it is 2 wins and 7 losses, with a for and against of 130 to 247, or 14.5 for and 27.5 against per game.
We have four more games this season against Top 6, not including any potential matches in the Finals.
In the 21 games, our Top 6 opponent has scored 28 or more against us in 10 of those games. 6 of those have occurred in the back half of the season. Half of those in Finals. The least a Top 6 opponent has scored against us in a Final is 32 points.
Only twice have we scored more than 30 points against a Top 6 opponent (31 against the Roosters this year and 32 against Manly in 2019). In 9 of the 21 games we have scored two tries or less. Four times we have failed to score a point (three times in the second half of a season).
Only once has a Top 6 opponent failed to score against us (an understrength Storm team).
Read into these stats what you will.