Melbourne Storm v Sydney Roosters Stats

The Melbourne Storm and Sydney Roosters have played each other on 41 occasions; the Storm have won 21 games, the Roosters have won 18 games and there have been no draws.

The Melbourne Storm have won three of the last four games between the two sides.

The first game played between the two sides was a 32-20 win for the Melbourne Storm in round 21, 1998.

Biggest Wins

The Melbourne Storms’ biggest win over the Sydney Roosters a 46-0 whitewash in round 14, 2016.

The Sydney Roosters’ biggest win over the Melbourne Storm was a comfortable 41-6 success in round 19, 2000.

Former Sydney Roosters fullback Anthony Minichiello

Top try-scorer in this clash

Anthony Minichiello (SYD) – 10
Billy Slater (MEL) – 9
Cooper Cronk (MEL) – 8
Marcus Bai (MEL) – 7
Shaun Kenny-Dowall (SYD) – 6

Most prolific point-scorer in this clash

Cameron Smith (MEL) – 3 tries, 66 goals & 1 field goal (145 pts)
Craig Fitzgibbon (SYD) – 5 tries & 39 goals (98 pts)
Matt Orford (MEL) – 3 tries & 20 goals (52 pts)
Latrell Mitchell (SYD) – 3 tries, 17 goals & 1 field goal (47 pts)
James Maloney (SYD) – 22 goals (44 pts)

Players to have played for both sides from this clash

  1. Michael Crocker – 2001-2005 (SYD) & 2006-2008 (MEL)
  2. David Kidwell – 2002 (SYD) & 2003-2006 (MEL)
  3. Chris Walker – 2003-2005 (SYD) & 2006 (MEL)
  4. Brett Finch – 2003-2006 (SYD) & 2009-2010 & 2013 (MEL)
  5. George Rose – 2004-2005 (SYD) & 2014 (MEL)
  6. Richard Fa’aoso – 2005 (SYD) & 2012 (MEL)
  7. James Aubusson – 2007 (MEL) & 2008-2010 (SYD)
  8. Nate Myles – 2007-2011 (SYD) & 2017 (MEL)
  9. Sisi Waqa – 2009 (SYD) & 2011-2014 (MEL)
  10. James Maloney – 2009 (MEL) & 2013-2015 (SYD)
  11. Jason Ryles – 2010-2011 (SYD) & 2012-2013 (MEL)
  12. Lagi Setu – 2013 (MEL) & 2015 (SYD)
  13. Cooper Cronk – 2004-2017 (MEL) & 2018-2019 (SYD)

Players to have been sin-binned/sent-off from this clash

  1. Sam Perrett (SYD) sin-binned in round 2, 2006.
  2. Victor Radley (SYD) sin-binned in round 16, 2018.
  3. Cameron Munster (MEL) sin-binned twice in the 2018 NRL grand final.
  4. Sio Siua Taukeiaho (SYD) & Nelson Asofa-Solomona (MEL) both sin-binned in the 2019 NRL preliminary final.

Players to have scored three or more tries in one game in this clash

  1. Chris Walker (SYD) scored three tries in round 21, 2004.
  2. Joseph Leilua (SYD) scored three tries in round 26, 2011.
  3. Suliasi Vunivalu (MEL) scored three tries in round 14, 2016.

Head Coaching Records

Graham Murray (SYD) – 3/4 (75%)
Chris Anderson (MEL) – 3/5 (60%)
Craig Bellamy (MEL) – 19/32 (59.4%)
Brian Smith (SYD) – 2/4 (50%)
Ricky Stuart (SYD) – 3/7 (42.9%)
Trent Robinson (SYD) – 7/17 (41.2%)
Brad Fittler (SYD) – 2/5 (40%)
Phil Gould (SYD) – 1/3 (33.3%)
Mark Murray (MEL) – 1/4 (25%)
Chris Anderson (MEL) – 0/1 (0%)

 

 

 

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