Match Discussion: Round 14 vs Manly @ McDonald Jones Stadium, New Lambton / Awabakal

[League Unlimited News]

NRL 2025 - Round 14
Newcastle Knights v Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
McDonald Jones Stadium, New Lambton / Awabakal (TICKETS)

Thursday 5 June 2025
NRL kickoff 7:50pm.
Live on Fox, Kayo, Nine, 9Now

Teamlist TBC 4pm AEST Tuesday

Teamlist TBC 4pm AEST Tuesday

Referee: Wyatt Raymond
Sideline Officials: Matt Noyen, Nick Pelgrave
Video Referee: Ashley Klein

HEAD TO HEAD - 1988 - 2024​

	TOTAL	NEWCASTLE	MANLY	DRAWN
ALL MATCHES	60	23	36	1
MCD. JONES	27	16	11	0

LAST FIVE MEETINGS​

YEAR	ROUND	RESULT	VENUE	CROWD
2022	Round 5	MANLY 30-6	McD. Jones	9472
2022	Round 18	MANLY 42-12	4 Pines	15896
2023	Round 5	DRAWN 32-32	Glen Willow	9024
2023	Round 13	NEWCASTLE 28-18	McD. Jones	20661
2024	Round 19	MANLY 44-6	4 Pines	17298

BIGGEST WINS​

YEAR	ROUND	RESULT	VENUE	CROWD
2004	Round 16	NEWCASTLE 56-12	EnergyAustralia	17967
2004	Round 23	MANLY 48-10	Brookvale	10028
2024	Round 19	MANLY 44-6	4 Pines	17298

NEXT FOUR MATCHES​

	Round 15	Round 16	Round 17	Round 18
NEWCASTLE	SYDNEY (H)	DOLPHINS (A)	CANBERRA (H)	(BYE)
MANLY	GOLD COAST (A)	(BYE)	WESTS TIGERS (H)	SOUTH SYDNEY (H)

LAST THREE MATCHES​

	Round 11		Round 12		Round 13
NEWCASTLE	PARRAMATTA	L 6-28	PENRITH	W 25-6	ST GEO ILLA	L 6-20
MANLY	NORTH QLD	W 24-6	PARRAMATTA	L 10-30	BRISBANE	W 34-6

STATE OF PLAY: 2025 SEASON​

	POSITION	PLAYED	BYES	W-L-D	FOR	AGAINST
NEWCASTLE	15th	12	1	4-8-0	159	228
MANLY	7th	12	1	6-6-0	292	246

LOWER GRADES

NSW Cup: NEWCASTLE v MANLY, McDonald Jones Stadium, Thursday, 5:20pm

Jersey Flegg: NEWCASTLE v MANLY, Newcastle Knights Centre of Excellence, Saturday, 1:00pm

 

[Old dog]

Tks, Cup and Flegg

 

[The Axe of Druss]

Why bother, Manlys pack is going to chew up our plods and spit them out

 

[Apey]

Manly 13+, they found form just in time.

 

[ryan.a87]

DCE out to prove a point for origin selection

this is going to be so bad

 

[Zoidberg]

KP will be well rested. Manly 13+

At least it’s a Thursday game so we can get it over and done with.

 

[Yosh]

KP will be well rested. Manly 13+

At least it’s a Thursday game so we can get it over and done with.

Hopefully I can drink enough on Friday night to forget the game and actually enjoy my weekend.

 

[mozza91]

Hopefully I can drink enough on Friday night to forget the game and actually enjoy my weekend.

Long weekend too. A 3 day Larry and I’ll forget my own name.

 

[HarVeeGee]

Teams have been going easy on us. Cruise control. Not even trying.

Manly loves running up the score on bad teams, stunting on fools.

They'll beat us at least 42-6 (with a customary junk time try from us, of course).

I'm at the point where I want it to be worse. 60+ to 0. Every game where they damage control their way to a 4-20 loss gives plausible deniability as to how bad things are. The club bosses won't get it until they see complete disintegration.

 

[mozza91]

That 42-6 was the pits. Poor Tom Cant copped an absolute bath playing in the centres.

Manly are very up and down though. They have as many off games as on and are often inconsistent within games. They were very good last week but the Broncos probably played worse than we did.
They’ll beat us but won’t put on a cricket score.

 

[Haffa]

Manly at -6.5 on the line is very generous.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Reuben Garrick alone to outscore us 4:1.

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

I honestly reckon this will be our first 50+ point loss of the year.

I'm definitely not braving the cold for this one lol

 

[League Unlimited News]

1. Kalyn Ponga 2. James Schiller 3. Dane Gagai 4. Kyle McCarthy 5. Fletcher Hunt 6. Fletcher Sharpe 7. Jack Cogger 8. Tyson Frizell 9. Phoenix Crossland 10. Brodie Jones 11. Dylan Lucas 12. Kai Pearce-Paul 13. Mathew Croker

Interchange
14. Jayden Brailey 15. Thomas Cant 16. Jermaine McEwen 17. Elijah Leaumoana

Reserves
18. Jackson Hastings 19. Tyrone Thompson 20. Matthew Arthur 21. Wil Sullivan 22. Greg Marzhew

Out: Tyson Gamble (halfback), Leo Thompson (front row), Jack Hetherington (bench)

In: Kalyn Ponga (fullback), Jermaine McEwen (bench), Elijah Salesa leaumoana (bench)

Changes: Fletcher Sharpe (fullback to five-eighth), Jack Cogger (five-eighth to halfback), Brodie Jones (bench to front row)

https://leagueunlimited.com/news/leagueunlimited-nrl-teams-2025-round-14/

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

God.. That bench is awful

 

[mozza91]

There’s about 8 reserve graders in that 17 and that’s being generous to plodders like Crossland and Schiller.

Ok maybe they will put 50 on us.

 

[macavity]

Lightest bench ever? A hooker and three backrowers.... backing up probably the smallest pack in the comp by some measure.

We are going to get steamrolled up the guts.

 

[HarVeeGee]

Very small and mobile pack. I look forward to more one-out hit ups, with no attempt to take advantage of the one thing our forwards have going for them. Tom Cant trying to steamroll 120kg Tof Sipley. Can't wait. "Change of angle"? What's that. Sounds made up. UP THE GUTS! UP THE GUTS!

 

[Yosh]

Very small and mobile pack. I look forward to more one-out hit ups, with no attempt to take advantage of the one thing our forwards have going for them. Tom Cant trying to steamroll 120kg Tof Sipley. Can't wait. "Change of angle"? What's that. Sounds made up. UP THE GUTS! UP THE GUTS!

Small yes. Mobile? Being generous there.

1. Kalyn Ponga 2. James Schiller 3. Dane Gagai 4. Kyle McCarthy 5. Fletcher Hunt 6. Fletcher Sharpe 7. Jack Cogger 8. Tyson Frizell 9. Phoenix Crossland 10. Brodie Jones 11. Dylan Lucas 12. Kai Pearce-Paul 13. Mathew Croker

Interchange
14. Jayden Brailey 15. Thomas Cant 16. Jermaine McEwen 17. Elijah Leaumoana

Reserves
18. Jackson Hastings 19. Tyrone Thompson 20. Matthew Arthur 21. Wil Sullivan 22. Greg Marzhew

Out: Tyson Gamble (halfback), Leo Thompson (front row), Jack Hetherington (bench)

In: Kalyn Ponga (fullback), Jermaine McEwen (bench), Elijah Salesa leaumoana (bench)

Changes: Fletcher Sharpe (fullback to five-eighth), Jack Cogger (five-eighth to halfback), Brodie Jones (bench to front row)

https://leagueunlimited.com/news/leagueunlimited-nrl-teams-2025-round-14/

Might be the worst team I have seen us put out in at least a decade. Losing this one isn't going to be an issue. It's when we score 2 points 3-4 games in a row with all out best players playing that's an issue.

Hopefully the boys make a good account of themselves and Cogger doesn't ruin everything.

 

[Rod]

Might be the worst team I have seen us put out in at least a decade.

Plenty of worse recent teams on paper than this one, the most obvious being the Brown years. The names on the paper aren't as much of an issue as the way they play.