Opta Stats: Stars hit their stride in Round 11

ALLIANZ Premiership Rugby produced a breathtaking Round 11 at the weekend, our tightest of the season with three of the matches on a knife-edge until the final whistle decided by margins of exactly five points – no other matchday this season has had more than one game decided by five points or fewer.

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• Alisha Butchers-Joyce was our Player of the Round with a stunning performance that brought her 12 carries, two clean breaks, 76 metres gained an impressive 13 tackles!

• Three separate players scored hat-tricks in this round of Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby fixtures (Eilidh Sinclair, Kathryn Treder & McKinley Hunt) – it is the second round this season to have seen multiple players score 3+ tries, alongside matchday 10 (2 players).

• Exeter Chiefs’ Linde van der Velden beat 11 defenders against Sale Sharks, the most of any player in this round of Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby fixtures, and seven more than any other lock has beaten in a league game this term.

• McKinley Hunt became the first prop to score a hat-trick of tries in this season’s Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby and just the second Saracens player to cross the line three times in a match this term (also Paige Farries on MD7).

• Leicester Tigers recorded their second consecutive away win (22-17 v Loughborough Lightning) and have now won two of their last three Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby matches (L1) after losing their first seven of the campaign.

• Gloucester-Hartpury extended their record as the only team to have maintained a 100% win rate in this season’s Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby (W9), with each of their last four wins all having come by margins of fewer than 10 points.

• Exeter Chiefs defeated Sale Sharks by a margin of 59 points (64-5), their largest Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby win since May 2023 (82-7 v Wasps) and the biggest home win for any team in the league this term.

• Saracens’ victory against Harlequins (29-24) extended their winning run at home to 11 league games, the longest active run of any Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby team, however, their five-point margin of victory in that game was their narrowest over that period.

• Exeter Chiefs recorded 24 line breaks and 59 defenders beaten against Sale Sharks, with both figures being the highest of any side in a single Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby match this season.

• Gloucester-Hartpury registered 319 metres in contact against Bristol Bears, the most of any team in a single Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby match this season.