Telstra Tracker: Dragons dominance on show in Round 1 of Telstra Women's Premiership, NRLW Stats

Author: NRL.com
Timestamp: Fri 4 Mar 2022, 11:18 AM

St. George-Illawarra's strong start to the 2021 Telstra Women's Premiership was underpinned by a relentless enthusiasm right across the park, according to the Telstra Tracker data.

While the Broncos and Eels both chalked up more metres as a team, the Dragons' dominance in the relative distance data from Telstra — showing a player's average metres run per minute — showed the blueprint for their 20-12 win over the Titans and a detail which would have certainly pleased coach Jamie Soward.

Across all players in the opening week of the competition, Dragons fullback Emma Tonegato (88.3 metres/min), lock Tegan Dymock (84.8), halfback Rachael Pearson (84.6) and centre Shaylee Bent (84.0) all finished inside the top seven players for relative distance — the only team to have multiple players inside the top seven.

Abbi Church made her impact for the Eels count in their thrilling win over the Knights, taking out top spot in the relative distance data for the week with 90.4 metres per minute, with Brisbane hooker Lauren Brown (87.1) narrowly behind Tonegato to round out the top three.

Tonegato's efforts showed up in other aspects of the Telstra Tracker data, with the fullback finishing fourth amongst all players in maximum velocity (29.5)— a category taken out by her teammate Jaime Chapman (32.9) — and second in total distance behind the Broncos' Brown (7,563 metres).