Newcastle Knights odds

The Newcastle Knights have fallen on hard times since their stunning exploits in the early years of the NRL.

The Knights ended their finals drought at last in 2020, although they couldn’t make it past the first week of the postseason.

Can Newcastle climb the ladder in 2021? Let’s see where they sit with the bookies in the latest NRL outright betting markets.

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Updated Newcastle Knights futures odds

Best Newcastle Knights bets for NRL 2021

There are dozens of NRL futures markets for Newcastle, but where are they likely to return some real value?

Click on the tabs below to get more analysis on these markets:

• Knights 2021 premiership betting
  The Knights broke their finals drought last year slipping into 7th position. Although they got to experience finals again they still look to be a few years away from holding the grand final trophy above their heads.
  
• Top 8 betting
  Newcastle are currently sitting on the outer with bookmakers back them to miss the top 8 this season. They managed to secure 7th position last year with a very poor mid season performance due to a few key injuries. If the knights can stay fit this season they have a good chance at making the 8.
  
• Top point scorer
  Kalyn Ponga is sitting in eighth position to start the season as the top point scorer. If Ponga was able to improve his kicking accuracy through the off season we should be seeing Kalyn be in a real competition for the Top Point Scorer spot.
  

2021 Newcastle Knights draw

Knights players to watch in 2021

Kalyn Ponga
Born: 30/3/1998
Games: 68
Tries: 30
Position: Fullback

Ponga could play anywhere in the back half, but his influence from fullback was highlighted two years ago when he scored 11 tries in the space of 12 starts, then follows it up with 10 tries, 14 try assists, 112 tackle breaks and 12 line breaks in 19 games last year. A full campaign from the WA-born star will put the Knights right in the mix for another finals spot.

Mitchell Pearce
Born: 7/4/1989
Games: 297
Tries: 73
Position: Halfback

Mitchell Pearce will be wanting to come out and prove himself this season after being stuck in the headlines all throughout the off season. They will still be looking to Mitchell Pearce to lead the team even without captaincy in his name. Expect him to come out firing to push the knights back into the top eight.

Bradman Best
Born: 9/06/2001
Games: 14
Tries: 9
Position: Centre

This 19 year old has secured himself a starting spot in the Newcastle Knights squad. Best dominated his junior competition in 2019 scoring seven tries in five games to earn him a call up to start the 2020 season in the NRL. Bradman scored eight tries in his 11 appearances and will be looking at following it up with an even bigger season with the New South Wales jersey in his sights. Will be one to watch this year.

Newcastle Knights records and stats

• Player records
  Most games: 257 – Danny Buderus
  Most career points: 2,176 – Andrew Johns
  Most career tries: 110 – Akuila Uate
  Most points in a season: 279 – Andrew Johns (2001)
  Most tries in a season: 21 – Timana Tahu (2002) and Akuila Uate (2010)
  
• Team records
  Most consecutive wins: 11 (2001-02)
  Most consecutive losses: 19 (2016-17)
  Highest score: 70-32 (vs. Raiders, 2006)
  Biggest winning margin: 60-0 (vs. Rabbitohs, 1999)
  Biggest losing margin: 6-71 (vs. Broncos, 2007)
  Largest NRL attendance: 32,642 (vs. Sea Eagles, 1995)
  
• Knights NRL history
  Newcastle’s rugby league story is much, much older than the Knights. The city was home to one of the nine clubs that founded the NSW Rugby Football League way back in 1908. However, the Newcastle Rebels left the competition after only two seasons when most of their homegrown talent jumped ship to play in a new local league.

  Although Sydneysiders regarded it as a second-rate competition, the Newcastle Rugby League soon became one of Australia’s strongest regional sporting divisions. It fielded a number of successful representative teams throughout the 20th century, several of which were good enough to beat touring sides from interstate and overseas. League legends Clive Churchill, John Sattler, Les Johns and Johnny Graves all played in Newcastle, while NSW and Kangaroos hero Wally Prigg spent his entire club career there.

  As the NSWRL began to expand in the 1960s, talk arose of a new team based in the Hunter Region. However, clubs and league administrators in Newcastle worried that such a move would diminish the value and status of their own competition. They declined an invitation to enter a side in the NSWRL in 1982, which led to the foundation of the Canberra Raiders instead.

  It was a different story a few years later when nationwide expansion became inevitable. In 1988, the Newcastle Knights joined the Sydney first-grade competition along with the Brisbane Broncos and the Gold Coast-Tweed Giants. The team was an instant hit with rugby league fans in country NSW and took only three seasons to reach the playoffs.

  The Knights’ popularity was highlighted during and after the Super League wars of the mid-1990s, when the rival Hunter Mariners franchise came and went within a matter of years. It helped that Newcastle won the Australian Rugby League title in 1997 with the assistance of a handy little footballer by the name of Andrew Johns, who would go on to win three Dally M Player of the Year awards.

  The red and blue have endured a few ups and downs since those heady days. A drugs scandal tarnished their success of the late ’90s, while the city as a whole fell on hard times after the closure of the BHP Steelworks. Even the 2011 signing of Queensland super-coach Wayne Bennett could not inspire the Knights to glory. Three wooden spoons later, the only way is up for Newcastle.
  

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