Newcastle Knights are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Newcastle, New South Wales.
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26 Facts About Newcastle Knights
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The Newcastle Knights entered the New South Wales Rugby League competition in 1988 with Allan McMahon as coach.
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Newcastle Knights had previously been invited to field a team in the NSWRL competition for the 1982 season but declined, worried it would weaken the area's local league competition.
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The Newcastle Knights made the semi-finals again in 1995 when the competition became the Australian Rugby League, and won the reserve grade premiership the same year.
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From 1997 to 2003, the Newcastle Knights achieved a finals berth for seven consecutive years.
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In 1998, the Newcastle Knights club finished equal on competition points with the Brisbane Broncos, but finished second on points differential.
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In 1999, the Newcastle Knights were in with a huge chance going into the final rounds only to lose their final two games of the regular season to finish 7th, before being knocked out a week later by the Parramatta Eels.
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The Newcastle Knights came third in 2000, followed by a National Rugby League Premiership victory over the Parramatta Eels in 2001, with Andrew Johns winning the Clive Churchill Medal.
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Ironically, during the week of the 2006 season-opening game against Parramatta, the Newcastle Knights outfit confirmed Parramatta coach Brian Smith would take over coaching duties in 2007.
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Newcastle Knights started the 2009 NRL season convincingly, they were placed 2nd in the ladder at round 10.
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Towards the end of the season coach Brian Smith announced he was leaving Newcastle Knights to join the troubled Sydney Roosters in 2010 after their horrific season.
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Toward the end of the season the Newcastle Knights lost three games in a row which put them in doubt for the finals, which they had looked like making all year.
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The Newcastle Knights celebrated 25 years in the NRL competition in 2012.
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The 2013 season was a much better season for the Newcastle Knights club, finishing 7th on the ladder and making the third week of the finals by beating the Melbourne Storm in Melbourne in the second week of the finals.
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In Round 3 of the 2014 NRL Season, the Newcastle Knights side played against the Melbourne Storm at AAMI Park, Melbourne's home ground.
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On 9 September 2015, the Newcastle Knights signed Nathan Brown to a three-year contract to coach starting from 2016.
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In December 2017, the Newcastle Knights expressed their interest in applying for a licence to participate in the inaugural NRL Women's season.
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On 1 November 2017, the club was sold to Wests Group, a Newcastle Knights-based not for profit club, after being administered by the NRL since the departure of Nathan Tinkler.
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The following year, Newcastle Knights would reach the finals finishing 7th on the table.
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In 1988, the Newcastle Knights were re-established to represent rugby league in the Hunter region once more.
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Newcastle Knights fans have been described as being among the most rabid in the NRL and in 2008,2011 and 2012, were the third best supported club in the league.
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In 2012, the Newcastle Knights had the largest Monday Night Football crowd of the year with 18,637 fans turning up in Round 16.
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On 11 June 2021, the Newcastle Knights were granted a licence to compete in the 2021 National Rugby League Women's competition.
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On 1 July 2021, the Newcastle Knights announced their first ever NRLW signing in Indigenous All Stars and Prime Minister's XIII representative Caitlan Johnston, who was a foundation Tarsha Gale Cup player for the Newcastle Knights in 2018 before spending two seasons with the Sydney Roosters NRLW side.
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In January 2022, the Newcastle Knights signed Kirra Dibb from the New Zealand Warriors after Emma Sykes withdrew from the squad.
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On 18 May 2022, the Newcastle Knights announced the signing of Australian Jillaroos players Millie Boyle and Tamika Upton for their second season in the competition.
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