St George Illawarra Dragons v Cronulla Breakdown
The St George Illawarra Dragons and Cronulla Sharks have played each other on 44 occasions; the Dragons have won 22 games, the Sharks have won 21 games and there has been one draw.
The Cronulla Sharks won seven of the first ten games between the two sides (7W, 2L, 1D).
The St George Illawarra Dragons have won fourteen of the last twenty-two games between the two sides but the Cronulla Sharks have won the last two.
The first game between the two sides was an 18-16 win to the Cronulla Sharks in round 8, 1999.
Biggest Wins
The St George Illawarra Dragons biggest win over the Cronulla Sharks was an easy 38-0 win in round 8, 2010.
The Cronulla Sharks biggest win over the St George Illawarra Dragons was a 40-4 rout in round 4, 2007.
Leading Try Scorer
Brett Morris (SGI) – 15
Colin Best (CRO/SGI) – 9
Nathan Blacklock (SGI) – 8 (1G)
David Peachey (CRO) – 7
Ben Hornby (SGI) – 7
Matt Cooper (SGI) – 7
Jason Nightingale (SGI) – 7
Leading Point Scorer
Gareth Widdop (SGI) – 1 try & 38 goals (80 pts)
Jamie Soward (SGI) – 2 tries, 27 goals & 1 field goal (63 pts)
Mark Riddell (SGI) – 5 tries & 18 goals (56 pts)
Luke Covell (CRO) – 3 tries & 22 goals (56 pts)
Brett Kimmorley (CRO) – 2 tries, 19 goals & 1 field goal (47 pts)
Players to have played for both sides in this clash
- Sam Isemonger – 1998-2000 & 2002-2005 (CRO) & 2006-2007 (SGI)
- Trent Barrett – 1999-2006 (SGI) & 2009-2010 (CRO)
- Wade Forrester – 1997-1999 (CRO) & 2001 (SGI)
- Nathan Long – 1994-2001 (CRO) & 2004 (SGI)
- Luke Branighan – 2000 (SGI) & 2001 (CRO)
- Lance Thompson – 1999-2005 (SGI) & 2006-2008 (CRO)
- Craig Stapleton – 2001-2003 (SGI) & 2007 (CRO)
- Colin Best – 1998-2002 & 2011-2012 (CRO) & 2005-2006 (SGI)
- Matt Bickerstaff – 2002-2004 (CRO) & 2006 (SGI)
- Hassan Saleh – 2003 (SGI) & 2004 (CRO)
- Ian Donnelly – 2003 (SGI) & 2009 (CRO)
- Jason Kent – 2002 (SGI) & 2003-2004 (CRO)
- Michael Ennis – 2005 (SGI) & 2015-2016 (CRO)
- Beau Scott – 2005-2006 (CRO) & 2007-2012 (SGI)
- Tony Caine – 2006 & 2009 (CRO) & 2007 (SGI)
- Adam Peek – 2007 (SGI) & 2008 (CRO)
- Bryan Norrie – 2004-2005 (SGI) & 2006-2007 (CRO)
- Matt Prior – 2008-2013 (SGI) & 2014-2019 (CRO)
- Jeremy Smith – 2009-2010 (SGI) & 2011-2012 (CRO)
- Bronx Goodwin – 2009 (CRO) & 2011-2012 (SGI)
- Atelea Vea – 2009 (CRO) & 2012-2013 (SGI)
- Jon Green – 2008-2011 (SGI) & 2012-2013 (CRO)
- Michael Greenfield – 2004 (CRO) & 2010-2011 (SGI)
- Adam Cuthbertson – 2010 (CRO) & 2011 (SGI)
- Jeremy Latimore – 2012 & 2018-2019 (SGI) & 2017 (CRO)
- Gerard Beale – 2013-2014 (SGI) & 2015-2017 (CRO)
- Tyson Frizell – 2011-2012 (CRO) & 2013-2020 (SGI)
- Daniel Holdsworth – 2004-2005 (SGI) & 2014 (CRO)
- Josh Dugan – 2013-2017 (SGI) & 2018-2020 (CRO)
Players to have sin-binned/sent-off in this clash
- Shaun Timmins (SGI) & Paul Gallen/Ben Pomeroy (both CRO) all sin-binned in round 25, 2006.
- Adam Peek (SGI) sin-binned in round 13, 2007.
- Sosaia Feki (CRO) sin-binned in round 2, 2016.
- Jason Nightingale (SGI) sin-binned in round 2, 2018.
- Cameron McInnes (SGI) sin-binned in round 6, 2018.
Head coaching records
John Morris (SGI) – 2/2 (100%)
Wayne Bennett (SGI) 5/6 (83.3%)
Chris Anderson (CRO) – 4/5 (80%)
Steve Price (SGI) – 3/5 (60%)
John Lang (CRO) – 4/7 (57.1%) (1 draw)
Paul McGregor (SGI) – 6/11 (54.5%)
Nathan Brown (SGI) – 6/12 (50%)
Ricky Stuart (CRO) – 4/8 (50%)
Stuart Flanagan (CRO) – 6/14 (42.9%)
David Waite (SGI) – 1/5 (20%)
Andrew Farrar (SGI) – 1/5 (20%) (1 draw)
Stuart Raper (CRO) – 1/6 (16.7%)
Peter Sharp (CRO) – 0/2 (0%)
Players to have scored three tries or more in one game
- Anthony Mundine (SGI) scored three tries in the 1999 NRL preliminary final.
- Ben Hornby (SGI) scored three tries in round 8, 2004.
- Brett Kearney (CRO) scored three tries in round 4, 2007.
- Brett Morris (SGI) scored three tries in round 11, 2009.
- Brett Morris (SGI) sored three tries in round 8, 2010.
- Josh Dugan (SGI) scored three tries in round 13, 2014.
- Bronson Xerri (CRO) scored three tries in round 11, 2019.