Ronald Griffiths
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ronald Griffiths | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coaching information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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
[edit | edit source]Griffiths is of Indigenous Australian descent.[2] He played junior rugby league for the Woodberry Warriors.[3]
Coaching career
[edit | edit source]Early years
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).