This may seem a strange statement about a team that won by 50-odd points, but perhaps the most impressive and encouraging part of Wire’s performance was their work off the ball.

That is what will please Sam Burgess and his coaching staff the most and ultimately, if this current defensive form continues, their run in the play-offs will be a lengthy one.

On the rare occasions in which they did have the ball, London were truly suffocated and were more often than not forced to kick from deep inside their own half.

A demonstration of that is the Broncos only being able to make 596 metres with the ball collectively, while the Warrington defence missed only 12 tackles for a completion rate of 95 per cent and did not concede a single line break.

By contrast, London missed 52 tackles to give a success rate of 86 per cent while Wire players were able to make 12 clean breaks.

On average, the visitors’ carries yielded 4.32m each – almost three metres less than the Warrington figure (1,435m from 198 carries, 7.25m per carry average).

Indeed, the top four metre-makers on the Warrington side – Matt Dufty (198m), Josh Thewlis (161m), Matty Ashton (146m) and James Harrison (120m) combined to eclipse the entire total of all 17 London players.

Despite the relentless nature of their defensive work, none of the Warrington players appeared to be over-worked in terms of their individual output.

Their highest individual tackle figure was Ben Currie with 23 and of the rest of the team, only Toby King got up to 20.

Nine London players were over 20 tackles for the game, with ex-Wire prop Rob Butler the game’s top tackler with 38.

Perhaps more pertinently, likely play-off opponents St Helens were put through the wringer by Leigh Leopards without the ball – eight of their players made more than 20 tackles with five of those going over 30. Morgan Knowles (40) had the highest figure.

On the face of it at least, then, Warrington should enter next Saturday’s eliminator tie slightly fresher.