NRL starting 17s and SuperCoach analysis
We predict the Round 1 starting lineups for every NRL team, as well as rating the players who can surge into SuperCoach calculations with a strong pre-season showing.
Knights
Power rankings: The backline to challenge the premiers
This is where we find the superstars and the game-breakers. While the Sydney Roosters still have the talent to beat, Parramatta fans should be excited. PAUL CRAWLEY runs his eye over all NRL clubs’ backlines.
Rising stars: Rookie giving Seibold pre-season nightmares
Payne Haas, Maika Sivo, Bronson Xerri and Ryan Papenhuyzen lit up the NRL last season, so who will follow in their footsteps this year? Check out 13 NRL rookies set to shine in 2020.
10 NRL players set for a breakout 2020
A new Bulldog ready to shine, the strike weapon Wests Tigers desperately need and have the Broncos found the answer they’ve been looking for?
‘Drug kingpin’ coached NRL star on how to deal cocaine
Former NRL star Jarrod Mullen built a career on training hard but, as his post-footy life spiralled out of control, he turned to another trade – cocaine dealing. Mullen, along with boxer Les Mason, are awaiting sentencing. READ THE SECRETLY RECORDED TRANSCRIPTS
‘Drug kingpin’ coached NRL star on how to deal cocaine
Former NRL star Jarrod Mullen built a career on training hard but, as his post-footy life spiralled out of control, he turned to another trade – cocaine dealing. Mullen, along with boxer Les Mason, are awaiting sentencing. READ THE TRANSCRIPTS
Knights given a lesson in real toughness
The Daily Telegraph was given unprecedented access to Newcastle’s training camp in Tamworth as the Knights lent what aid they could to a community ravaged by drought.
Newcastle dancing to O’Brien’s tune
Learn about Adam O’Brien’s differing coaching techniques as the new Knights coach reveals the details of his first pre-season in charge.
Agents fight to save careers after NRL crackdown
The NRL has made good on their promise to crack down on player agents, stripping the accreditation from one of the game’s biggest player managers and hitting several others with heavy sanctions.
Knights lock down Barnett on long-term deal
The Knights have re-signed reigning player of the year Mitch Barnett on a new deal that will make him one of the club’s longest serving players of recent years.
Knights giving back to community in need
Newcastle have relied on the support of the community during their dark days of the past. Now they have returned the favour.
NRL must fix system that locks players out
They might not be rugby league’s biggest names, but they are the face of a huge issue that some of the NRL’s most experienced football minds fear is now tearing apart the game’s talent pool.
Pearce knighted, Ponga snubbed in surprise call
Once-in-a-generation talent Kalyn Ponga would walk into almost any representative side. But he has been controversially squeezed out of the Knights’ team of the decade.
How Pete the barber clipped up a classic name
Newcastle Knights teen flyer Bradman Best has undeniably the best name anywhere in rugby league – now and maybe ever. It’s a moniker he feels, after some initial hesitation, blessed to have.
‘NRL can’t stop clubs negotiating with Folau’
Israel Folau back in rugby league? It’s not as far-fetched as it once seemed with some coaches feeling the NRL would become ‘a little anxious’ about a possible legal drama should Folau say he wants to play again.
Knights coach snares first major signing
Newcastle coach Adam O’Brien has landed his first signing as a head coach, pouncing on a Broncos young gun who was squeezed out of Brisbane following Brodie Croft’s arrival.
Joey versus JT: New twist in statue race
Newcastle Knight fans have been pushing hard to have Andrew Johns immortalized in bronze and now they have a key backer.
The Latrell circus has to end now
This latest twist in the Latrell Mitchell saga proves he needs to stop agonising over his future and make a decision before his reputation suffers any more damage.
NRL’s $250K Harvard partnership to fight concussion
The NRL has taken a giant step in its commitment to tackling concussion after teaming up with Harvard for a new study described as one of the biggest of its kind in the world.
Knights to unleash their ‘Darren Lockyer’
Newcastle rookie Phoenix Crossland is firming to partner Mitchell Pearce in the Knights’ season opener, with one club insider saying his ‘Darren Lockyer playing style’ will complement the NRL veteran.
Loyalty list that shames Greatest Game of All
It’s the scourge damaging the game and turning fans off in droves – and this damning list proves loyalty in the NRL is close to becoming extinct. SEE THE CURRENT ONE-CLUB PLAYERS.
Greats demand end to Joey statue shame
Rugby league’s biggest names have joined an unprecedented social media push for an Andrew Johns statue to be erected in Newcastle.
The statue of Joey we all want to see
Plans to install a statue of Johnathan Thurston outside the new Townsville stadium have raised the hackles of passionate Newcastle Knights supporters.
Injury-plagued former premiership winner forced to retire at 28
Former Storm premiership winner and Knights hooker Slade Griffin has been forced to pull the pin on his rugby league career at the tender age of 28.
Former junior Maroon thrown an NRL lifeline
A former North Queensland Cowboy and junior Maroon has been thrown an NRL lifeline by the Newcastle Knights for the 2020 season. Read the full story here.
Knights boss is playing us all for fools
Knights CEO Phil Gardner has been playing Newcastle fans for fools throughout the Nathan Brown saga and his latest attempt to justify it further exposes him, writes PAUL KENT.
Brown, Bennett and the myths of Newcastle’s misery
They still blame Wayne Bennett for the mess Nathan Brown is leaving in Newcastle – but closer examination reveals the truth is something far different writes PAUL CRAWLEY.
Ponga tries to smoothie over thick mess
As Newcastle readies to celebrates Old Boys Day, apologetic Newcastle star Kalyn Ponga is set to appear on Fox Sports with a slice of humble pie to go with his next strawberry thickshake.
The real reason Brown walked away early
Find out the truth between Nathan Brown’s early exit as Newcastle coach as the farcical Knights situation pivots from bad to worse.
Clubs the big losers in sack race: Griffin
When will clubs finally look further than the tired old formula of sacking the coach of an underperforming side to turn things around? Anthony Griffin says the evidence is there.
‘No split, no divide’: Players wanted Brown to finish
Despite speculation of a rift between the Newcastle playing group and Nathan Brown, club veterans have insisted the ‘united’ squad wanted the former coach to see out the season.
Round 24: NRL teams, analysis
Two big guns in Sam Burgess and Latrell Mitchell return as the race to the finals heats up. Re-live our SuperCoach blog on the Round 24 NRL teams.
Kent: Knights let down their coach, club and city
This Saturday is Old Boys day in Newcastle, an idea that originated there to remember the men who stood for something. The current crop of Knights share nothing of those values, writes PAUL KENT.
The ugly fallout over Brown’s shock demise
The sorry saga of Nathan Brown’s exit from the Newcastle Knights has exposed an ugly battle and created powerful enemies – PAUL CRAWLEY takes you behind the scenes.
Kent: Naive boss dragging Knights down
Newcastle boss Phil Gardner is making the classic mistake of assuming that because he is an expert in one industry it makes him an expert in another. And the Knights are paying the price, writes PAUL KENT.
Going nowhere: Knights reject Brown’s quit offer
Nathan Brown will see out his final two games as Newcastle coach despite offering to quit immediately in the wake of a player fall out in the loss to the Wests Tigers.
‘Disrespectful’ Ponga called out after Knights shocker
A flippant comment about departing coach Nathan Brown was strike one, and Newcastle fullback Kalyn Ponga has attracted heavy criticism after his effort against Wests Tigers.
Pathetic performance sums up attitude of Knights
Newcastle’s performance was so bad and so depressing that league Immortal and the club’s greatest player Joey Johns couldn’t watch, writes Phil Rothfield.
Alive and gone: Tigers bury Knights’ finals hopes
Wests Tigers are alive and kicking in the race for a top eight berth after belting Newcastle 46-4 in Campbelltown, with the Knights now all but out of the running for a spot in finals footy.
Saint, Sinner, Shoosh: Fifita ready to talk
As their NRL rivals prepare big money offers, Brisbane run the risk of losing gun forward David Fifita. PLUS, NRL refs face serious review and everything you ever wanted to know about Paul Gallen.
Brown lament for ‘end of the road’
It was a performance that underlined the decision that Nathan Brown and Newcastle had already come to — 30 unanswered first-half points from an underachieving team out of ideas.
Another Knights contender out of running
It’s a virtual one-man race to replace Nathan Brown in Newcastle after another leading contender knocked back a shot to take over as coach of the club.
Hello sailor! Son of a gun makes the grade
There could be a famous name on the team sheet when St George Illawarra face the Sydney Roosters on Saturday night, with the offspring of rugby league royalty ready for his NRL debut.
Roosters coach faces axe over Knights offer
It’s not even a done deal, but the Sydney Roosters are so angry at the possibility of Adam O’Brien joining Newcastle, that the assistant coach could be immediately sacked if he decides to take over from Nathan Brown.
Key clashes to decide NRL finals contenders
These are the seven can’t-miss matches that will decide who finishes in the all-important top four. PAUL CRAWLEY analyses who will sneak into the NRL finals and which teams will miss out.
Knights set to raid Chook house
After being turned down by first choice Craig Fitzgibbon, Newcastle will return to the Sydney Roosters for the next in line to take over from Nathan Brown.
Blues rookie favourite to take over Knights
Newcastle are on the lookout for a new coach, with two former teammates of Nathan Brown and a rookie frontrunners for the job. Who should get the job? VOTE IN OUR POLL
Frontrunner pulls out of Knights coaching race
Newcastle have suffered a blow in their search for a new coach with one of the leading contenders ruling himself out of succeeding Nathan Brown. VOTE IN OUR POLL
Kent: The players behind Brown’s Knightfall
Newcastle say Nathan Brown’s departure was by mutual consent but the timing says otherwise. And if you consider the targets to take over you can see how the decision was made, writes PAUL KENT.
The moment Brown knew he was a dead man walking
The timing of Nathan Brown’s exit from Newcastle may have been unexpected but the outgoing Knights coach realised more than a month ago that he must fall on his sword.
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