NRL Rd 8: Newcastle Knights v Sydney Roosters Stats Breakdown

Newcastle Knights v Sydney Roosters Stats

The Newcastle Knights and Sydney Roosters have played each other on 57 occasions; the Knights have won 20 games, the Roosters have won 33 games and there have been four draws.

The Newcastle Knights need 30 points to score 1000 total points against the Sydney Roosters.

Since 2010, the Sydney Roosters have won thirteen of the seventeen games played between the two sides.

After winning five of the opening seven games at McDonald Jones Stadium (5W, 1D, 1L), they have won just five of the last twenty games at the venue (5W, 1D, 14L) including the most recent clash.

The first game played between the two sides was a 26-10 win for the Sydney Roosters in round 13, 1988.

Biggest Wins

The Newcastle Knights’ biggest win over the Sydney Roosters was a 48-12 rout in round 22, 2000.

The Sydney Roosters’ biggest win over the Newcastle Knights was a 48-4 shellacking in round 15, 2014.

Top try-scorer in this clash

Anthony Minichiello (SYD) – 13
Andrew Johns (NEW) – 8
Matthew Gidley (NEW) – 7
Brad Fittler (SYD) – 7
Shaun Kenny-Dowall (SYD/NEW) – 7

Most prolific point-scorer in this clash

Andrew Johns (NEW) – 8 tries, 51 goals & 2 field goals (138 pts)
Craig Fitzgibbon (SYD) – 2 tries & 47 goals (102 pts)
Kurt Gidley (NEW) – 5 tries & 25 goals (70 pts)
Anthony Minichiello (SYD) – 13 tries (52 pts)
Latrell Mitchell (SYD) – 2 tries & 20 goals (48 pts)

Players to have played for both sides from this clash

1. Gary Wurth – 1984-1988 (SYD) & 1989-1991 (NEW)
2. David Smith – 1987-1991 (SYD) & 1993-1994 (SYD)
3. Peter Johnston – 1987-1988 (SYD) & 1989-1991 (NEW)
4. Mike McLean – 1985-1990 (SYD) & 1991 (NEW)
5. Adam MacDougall – 1995 (SYD) & 1997-2003 & 2007-2011 (NEW)
6. Clinton O’Brien – 1993-1995 (SYD) & 1999-2002 (NEW)
7. Sean Rudder – 1998-2003 (NEW) & 2008 (SYD)
8. Anthony Tupou – 2004-2008 (SYD) & 2017 (NEW)
9. Richard Fa’aoso – 2005 (SYD) & 2008-2012 (NEW)
10. Mickey Paea – 2005-2008 (SYD) & 2016-2017 (NEW)
11. Riley Brown – 2004-2007 (NEW) & 2008-2009 (SYD)
12. Mitchell Pearce – 2007-2017 (SYD) & 2018-2021 (NEW)
13. Shaun Kenny-Dowall – 2007-2017 (SYD) & 2018-2019 (NEW)
14. Willie Mason – 2008-2009 (SYD) & 2012-2014 (NEW)
15. Aidan Guerra – 2010-2017 (SYD) & 2018-2020 (NEW)
16. Joseph Leilua – 2010-2012 (SYD) & 2013-2015 (NEW)
17. Zane Tetevano – 2011-2014 (NEW) & 2017-2019 (SYD)
18. Connor Watson – 2016-2017 (SYD) & 2018-2021 (NEW)
19. Tautau Moga – 2012 (SYD) & 2018-2020 (NEW)
20. Brock Lamb – 2016-2018 (NEW) & 2019 (SYD)

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

1. Dean Bell (SYD) sin-binned in round 13, 1988.
2. Mark Barnes & Rob O’Dwyer (both SYD) both sent-off in round 16, 1993.
3. Luke Ricketson (SYD) & Wayne Richards (NEW) both sin-binned in round 4, 1997.
4. George Carmont (NEW) sin-binned in round 15, 2004.
5. Brett Finch (SYD) sin-binned in round 22, 2006.
6. Jason Ryles (SYD) sin-binned in round 10, 2010.
7. Jared Waerea-Hargreaves (SYD) sin-binned in round 20, 2014.
8. Tautau Moga (SYD) sin-binned in round 3, 2018.
9. Dylan Napa (SYD) sin-binned in round 14, 2018.

Players to have scored three or more tries in one game in this clash

1. Ashley Gordon (NEW) scored three tries in round 13, 1990.
2. Andrew Johns (NEW) scored three tries in round 22, 2000.
3. Trent Salkeld (NEW) scored three tries in round 17, 2005.
4. Akuila Uate (NEW) scored three tries in round 10, 2010.
5. Roger Tuivasa-Sheck (SYD) scored three tries in round 22, 2015.
6. Blake Ferguson (SYD) scored three tries in round 9, 2016.

Head Coaching Records

Arthur Beetson (SYD) – 1/1 (100%)
Trent Robinson (SYD) – 11/13 (84.6%)
Ricky Stuart (SYD) – 8/10 (80%)
Rick Stone (NEW) – 2/3 (66.7%)
Brad Fittler (SYD) – 3/5 (60%)
David Waite (NEW) – 3/5 (60%)
Graham Murray (SYD) – 3/6 (50%)
Malcolm Reilly (NEW) – 3/6 (50%) (1 draw)
Brian Smith (NEW) – 3/6 (50%)
Brian Smith (SYD) – 2/4 (50%)
Allan McMahon (NEW) – 2/4 (50%) (1 draw)
Michael Hagan (NEW) – 4/12 (33.%)
Mark Murray (SYD) – 2/6 (33.3%) (1 draw)
Phil Gould (SYD) – 2/7 (28.6%) (1 draw)
Warren Ryan (NEW) – 1/4 (25%)
Wayne Bennett (NEW) – 1/5 (20%)
Nathan Brown (NEW) – 1/7 (14.3%)
Chris Anderson (SYD) – 0/1 (0%)
Danny Buderus (NEW) – 0/1 (0%)
Adam O’Brien (NEW) – 0/1 (0%)
Russell Fairfax (SYD) – 0/2 (0%)