Ronald Griffiths

Ron Griffiths
Personal information
Full nameRonald Griffiths
Coaching information
Club
Years Team Gms W D L W%
2022–23 Newcastle Knights 18 16 0 2 89
2025– New Zealand Warriors 0 0 0 0
Total 18 16 0 2 89
Representative
Years Team Gms W D L W%
2023 Indigenous All Stars 1 1 0 0 100
Source: [1]
As of 13 October 2024

Ronald Griffiths is an Australian professional rugby league football coach who is the head coach of the New Zealand Warriors in the NRL Women's Premiership. He previously coached the Newcastle Knights, winning two premierships with them.

Background

Griffiths is of Indigenous Australian descent.[2] He played junior rugby league for the Woodberry Warriors.[3]

Coaching career

Early years

In 2012, Griffiths coached the Maitland Pickers in the Newcastle Rugby League, as well as mentoring the under-16s New South Wales Koori side.[4] In 2014, he coached the Greta-Branxton Colts[5] as well as being a pathways coach with the New South Wales VB Cup representative side.[6] In 2016, he became head coach at the Kurri Kurri Bulldogs.[7] In 2019, he worked with the coaching staff at the Wests Tigers, before taking up an assistant coach role with the team in 2020.[8] In 2021, he was a part of the coaching staff for the Indigenous All Stars side.[2]

2022

In April 2022, Griffiths was announced as the head coach of the Newcastle Knights' NRLW team.[3] The team won 4 of its 5 regular season games, before winning the semi-final match and ultimately winning the 2022 NRLW Premiership, the Knights' defeating the Parramatta Eels 32–12.[9]

2023

Griffiths would coach the NRLW team to another premiership win in 2023,[10] before being announced as the Knights' NSW Cup head coach going into 2024.[11]

2024

On 1 July, the New Zealand Warriors announced the appointment of Griffiths as head coach of their NRLW team, who return to the competition in 2025. Griffiths was appointed on a three-year deal.[12] The Newcastle Knights confirmed that Griffiths will depart the club at the conclusion of the 2024 NSW Cup season.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Ron Griffiths (N) - Summary - Rugby League Project". www.rugbyleagueproject.org.
  2. ^ a b "Deadly trio Bowen, Hodges and Prince leading way for Indigenous coaches". National Rugby League. 12 February 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Ronald Griffiths announced as NRLW Head Coach". Newcastle Knights. 14 April 2022.
  4. ^ "Junior Rugby League News, harold matthews cup, sg ball, mel meninga cup, cyril connell cup, uni shield, buckley shield, schoolboys rugby league". ourfootyteam-archives.com.au.
  5. ^ "GRETA GETS REVENGE ON DENMAN | NBN News". NBN News.
  6. ^ "2014 NSWRL Annual Report" (PDF). nswrl.com.au.
  7. ^ "Butcher Boys central to Miller coaching call". Newcastle Herald. 31 August 2016.
  8. ^ "Wests Tigers appoint Ron Griffiths as Coaching Assistant". Match Preview: Round 11 vs Bulldogs. 29 January 2020.
  9. ^ "Custom Match List - RLP". www.rugbyleagueproject.org.
  10. ^ "Custom Match List - RLP". www.rugbyleagueproject.org.
  11. ^ "Griffiths appointed Knights NSW Cup Coach". Newcastle Knights. 2 November 2023.
  12. ^ Becht, Richard (1 July 2024). "Griffiths to coach NRLW side". Warriors.Kiwi. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  13. ^ "Ronald Griffiths to farewell the Knights". Newcastle Knights. 1 July 2024. Retrieved 1 July 2024.