NRL Rd 10: South Sydney Rabbitohs v Newcastle Knights Stats Breakdown

South Sydney Rabbitohs v Newcastle Knights Breakdown

The South Sydney Rabbitohs and Newcastle Knights have played each other on 42 occasions; the Rabbitohs have won 16 games and the Knights have 26 games. There have been no draws.

The South Sydney Rabbitohs have won nine of the last ten games between the two sides.

In the first thirty-three games played between the two sides, the Newcastle Knights won twenty-six of them.

Paul Harragon scored more than a quarter of his career tries (19) against the South Sydney Rabbitohs (5).

The first clash between the two sides was a 17-10 win to the Newcastle Knights in round 10, 1988.

Biggest Wins

The South Sydney Rabbitohs biggest win over the Newcastle Knights was a 52-6 rout in round 20, 2015.

The Newcastle Knights biggest win over the South Sydney Rabbitohs was a 60-0 demolition in round 23, 1999.

Top try-scorer in this clash

Robbie O’Davis (NEW) – 13
Akuila Uate (NEW) – 11
Alex Johnston (SOU) – 10
Nathan Merritt (SOU) – 8
Adam MacDougall (NEW/SOU) – 7
Greg Inglis (SOU) – 7

Most prolific point-scorer in this clash

Andrew Johns (NEW) – 6 tries, 43 goals & 1 field goal (111 pts)
Adam Reynolds (SOU) – 38 goals & 1 field goal (87 pts)
Kurt Gidley (NEW) – 5 tries, 19 goals & 2 field goals (60 pts)
Robbie O’Davis (NEW) – 13 tries (52 pts)

Players to have played for both sides from this clash

1. Wayne Richards – 1991-1994 & 1997-1998 (NEW) & 1999 (SOU)
2. Adam Muir – 1992-1997 (NEW) & 2002 (SOU)
3. Lee Jackson – 1995 (SOU) & 1996-1998 (NEW)
4. Owen Craigie – 1995-1999 (NEW) & 2002-2004 (SOU)
5. Evan Cochrane – 1993 (SOU) & 1997-1998 (NEW)
6. Matt Parsons – 1997-1999 (SOU) & 2000-2004 (NEW)
7. Adam MacDougall – 1997-2003 & 2007-2011 (NEW) & 2004-2006 (SOU)
8. Glenn Grief – 1996 & 1998-2001 (NEW) & 2002 (SOU)
9. Russell Richardson – 2002-2003 (SOU) & 2004 (NEW)
10. Jamie Fitzgerald – 2002-2003 (SOU) & 2004 (NEW)
11. Luke MacDougall – 2003-2006 (SOU) & 2007 (NEW)
12. David Fa’alogo – 2003-2009 (SOU) & 2013-2015 (NEW)
13. Todd Polglase – 2004-2006 (SOU) & 2007 (NEW)
14. Craig Smith – 1995 (SOU) & 2005-2006 (NEW)
15. Ben Rogers – 2006-2008 (SOU) & 2009-2011 (NEW)
16. George Ndaira – 2008 (SOU) & 2009-2010 (NEW)
17. Dane Gagai – 2012-2017 (NEW) & 2018-2020 (SOU)
18. Robbie Rochow – 2012-2016 (NEW) & 2017 (SOU)
19. Josh Starling – 2012-2013 (SOU) & 2017 (NEW)
20. Hymel Hunt – 2016-2018 (SOU) & 2019-2020 (NEW)

Players to have been sin-binned/sent-off from this clash

1. Matthew Gidley (NEW) sin-binned in round 8, 2006.
2. Trent Hodkinson (NEW) & George Burgess (SOU) both sin-binned in round 3, 2017.

Players to have scored three or more tries in this clash

1. Akuila Uate (NEW) scored four tries in round 26, 2011.
2. Paul Mellor (SOU) scored three tries in round 16, 1994.
3. Mark Hughes (NEW) scored three tries in 23, 1999.
4. Anthony Quinn (NEW) scored three tries in round 9, 2003.
5. Alex Johnston (SOU) scored three tries in round 21, 2014.
6. Greg Inglis (SOU) scored three tries in round 20, 2015.
7. Dylan Walker (SOU) scored three tries in round 20, 2015.
8. Aaron Gray (SOU) scored three tries in round 2, 2016.

Head Coaching Records

Michael Maguire (SOU) – 8/8 (100%)
Malcolm Reilly (NEW) – 5/5 (100%)
Anthony Seibold (SOU) – 1/1 (100%)
Michael Hagan (NEW) – 7/8 (87.5%)
David Waite (NEW) – 5/6 (83.3%)
Allan McMahon (NEW) – 3/4 (75%)
Brian Smith (NEW) – 3/5 (60%)
John Lang (SOU) – 1/2 (50%)
Warren Ryan (NEW) – 1/2 (50%)
Jason Taylor (SOU) – 2/5 (40%)
George Piggins (SOU) – 1/3 (33.3%)
Shaun McRae (SOU) – 1/3 (33.3%)
Rick Stone (NEW) – 1/3 (33.3%)
Craig Coleman (SOU) – 1/4 (25%)
Ken Shine (SOU) – 1/5 (20%)
Nathan Brown (NEW) – 1/5 (20%)
Steve Martin (SOU) – 0/1 (0%)
Arthur Kitinas (SOU) – 0/1 (0%)
Wayne Bennett (SOU) – 0/1 (0%)
Paul Langmack (SOU) – 0/2 (0%)
Wayne Bennett (NEW) – 0/4 (0%)
Frank Curry (SOU) – 0/5 (0%)