Newcastle Knights Women

Last updated
 Newcastle Knights 
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Club information
Full nameNewcastle Rugby League
Football Club
Nickname(s)Novocastrians
ColoursPrimary:
  Blue
  Red
Secondary:
  White
FoundedTeam: 2021;3 years ago (2021)
Club: 1987
Website newcastleknights.com.au
Current details
Ground(s)
CEO Phil Gardner
Coach Ben Jeffries
Captain Hannah Southwell
Competition NRL Women's Premiership
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Uniforms
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Home colours
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Away colours
Records
Premierships2 (2022, 2023)
Runners-up0
Minor premierships 1 (2023)
Wooden spoons 1 (2021)
Most capped Yasmin Clydsdale, Olivia Higgins, Caitlan Johnston-Green, Shanice Parker, Tayla Predebon, Jesse Southwell – 18
Highest try scorer Tamika Upton – 12
Highest points scorer Jesse Southwell – 102

The Newcastle Knights Women are an Australian rugby league team based in Newcastle, New South Wales. The team is part of the Newcastle Knights club and competes in the National Rugby League Women's Premiership (NRLW). The team's home ground is McDonald Jones Stadium. The team has won two premierships over its history (2022 and 2023).

Contents

History

On 11 June 2021, the Newcastle Knights were granted a licence to compete in the 2021 National Rugby League Women's (NRLW) competition. Recently retired Knights player Blake Green was announced as the head coach. [1] The season was planned to commence in August 2021, postponed to October 2021 and further postponed to 2022 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. [2]

On 1 July 2021, the Knights announced their first ever NRLW signing in Indigenous All Stars and Prime Minister's XIII representative Caitlan Johnston-Green, who was a foundation Tarsha Gale Cup player for the Knights in 2018 before spending two seasons with the Sydney Roosters NRLW side. [3]

On 25 November 2021, it was announced that Knights Tarsha Gale Cup coach Casey Bromilow would be taking on the head coach role after Green had been appointed into a specialist halves role alongside Andrew Johns with Newcastle's NRL side. [4] Jess Skinner was announced as the assistant coach. [5] On the same day, the Knights announced a further six Newcastle and Hunter based signings in Bobbi Law from the Sydney Roosters, Jayme Fressard from the Brisbane Broncos and Georgia Page from the St. George Illawarra Dragons, as well as Phoebe Desmond, Chantelle Graham and Kyra Simon from local teams. Six development players were also announced in Bree Chester, Sophie Clancy, Matilda Jones, Kayla Romaniuk, Jesse Southwell and Tylah Vallance. [6]

On 1 December 2021, the Knights signed nine Kiwi Ferns representatives in Ngatokotoru Arakua, Maitua Feterika, Annetta Nu'uausala, Charntay Poko, Krystal Rota, Charlotte Scanlan, Autumn-Rain Stephens-Daly, Katelyn Vaha'akolo and Kararaina Wira-Kohu, [7] Two days later, the club signed Romy Teitzel from the Brisbane Broncos, AFLW player Paige Parker, rugby sevens player Emma Sykes and North Queensland Gold Stars players Rangimarie Edwards-Bruce, Katie Green, Emma Manzelmann and Tahlulah Tillett. [8]

In January 2022, the Knights signed Kirra Dibb from the New Zealand Warriors after Emma Sykes withdrew from the squad. [9] On 21 February, the 24-woman squad was finalised with the signing of Shannon Evans from the Central Coast Roosters [10] and Romy Teitzel was named team captain, Caitlan Johnston-Green and Krystal Rota named as club captains. [11]

The club played in 5 matches without a win in its inaugural season. [12]

In April 2022, Ronald Griffiths was announced as the new head coach for the upcoming season. [13]

On 18 May 2022, the Knights announced the signing of Australian Jillaroos players Millie Boyle and Tamika Upton for their second season in the competition. [14] [15] Additional notable signings for the 2022 season were Sydney Roosters premiership winning players Yasmin Clydsdale, Olivia Higgins, Simone Karpani, Tayla Predebon, Hannah Southwell, [16] [17] former Jillaroos player Caitlin Moran and former Roosters players Shanice Parker and Kiana Takairangi. [18]

On 16 August 2022, Millie Boyle and Hannah Southwell were appointed co-captains of the club. [19]

After winning 4 of its 5 regular season games, the Knights won their first premiership during the 2022 NRL Women's season, defeating the Parramatta Eels 32–12. [20]

Players

Current squad

Newcastle Knights women's – current squad
2024 NRLW top 24 squadDevelopment listCoaching staff

Head coach


Legend:
  • (c) Captain(s)
  • (vc) Vice-captain(s)

Updated: 4 August 2024
Source(s): Newcastle Knights Profiles,
Rugby League Project

Captains

All players that have captained the Newcastle Knights Women's in first-grade.

Cap No.NameYears As CaptainDebut RoundGames As Captain
1. Romy Teitzel 2021Round 15
2. Millie Boyle 2022Round 17
3. Hannah Southwell 2022-24Round 113
4. Tamika Upton 2023Round 13

Coaches

Seasons

SeasonRegular SeasonFinals
PWDLFAPtsPos
2021 50054812306th—
2022 54011126882ndPremiers
2023 9801224119161stPremiers

Club records

This section last updated: 26 July 2024.

Individual records

Career

Most Games

Most Points

Most Tries

Most Goals

Season

Most Points

Most Tries

Match

Most Points

Most Tries

Most Goals

Margins and streaks

Biggest winning margin

MarginScoreOpponentVenueDate
3438–4 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta Eels CommBank Stadium 6 August 2023

Biggest losing margin

MarginScoreOpponentVenueDate
364–40 St. George Illawarra colours.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons McDonald Jones Stadium 20 March 2022

Most consecutive wins

Most consecutive losses

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