In seasons past, five straight wins would be cause enough for NZ Warriors fans to celebrate from the rooftops.
To put that into perspective, you must go back more than two decades to find a longer winning run - eight consecutive victories that helped propel the Auckland team to the top of the NRL table and their first Grand Final appearance in 2002.
These days, the benchmark has been set higher than those past campaigns, with new coach Andrew Webster required to provide an answer to his team's patchy form over the last three of their five on the trot.
Their latest success - a 30-22 result over cellar-dwellers Wests Tigers at Hamilton - still hung in the balance midway through the second half, when former Warriors forward Isaiah Papali'i appeared to score a potential go-ahead try, overturned for a knockon in the build-up.
A Shaun Johnson penalty and Addin Fonua-Blake's converted try were required to steer the Warriors clear of danger in a fixture they were expected to win easily, with the playoffs beckoning.
"I'm relieved with the two points, but it certainly wasn't one of our better ones," admitted Webster. "The tries we conceded weren't us - I thought it was great work by them.
"We don't normally concede tries like that, I reckon. You've got a team just throwing the ball around with fearless attack, the way they go about it.
"You've got to hold your gloves up and concentrate. I don't think we did that enough, but we were good enough to get the win."
The performance follows similar showings against Canberra Raiders, when they conceded two tries in final moments and won with Johnson's goldenpoint drop goal, and Gold Coast Titans, which was locked at 18-18 with 16 minutes remaining, before two late tries saved their blushes.
In between came a bye week that seemed to break a purple patch featuring 30-point wins over post-season contenders Parramatta Eels and Cronulla Sharks. The Eels had reeled off a five-game streak of their own, until that lapse, while the Sharks are still just four competition points adrift of the Warriors.
Webster described the Titans win as "ugly", but still doesn't appear concerned, despite his side's current indifference.
"It wouldn't matter how much we practice it," he reflected. "We could have a million training sessions, but what we need to fix, we can fix in a second - it's just our mindset.
"It's just flicking the switch and concentrating for longer. I feel like, before the bye, we had lots of momentum and knew what we were doing... I still think we know what we're doing, but we're just not concentrating for longer periods.
"What we need to fix is not in a training session. It's in the boys' heads, I know they can fix it quick and we will.
"It doesn't worry me at all."
The Warriors need one more win - or a Newcastle Knights loss - to seal their first top-eight post-season spot since 2018 and perhaps that prospect has taken their eyes off the immediate objective.
"Everyone's talking finals, but seriously, if we'd lost that one... you just can't," said Webster. "You've got to win them, you've got to win every game and come with your best foot forward.
"We've got too much stuff we need to get better at to be lacking concentration."
The Warriors remain in third on the NRL table for another week and will host 12th-placed Manly Sea Eagles at Go Media Stadium Mt Smart on Friday.
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