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Gateshead Thunder

Order by: First appearance, Number of appearances, Player name (alphabetical), Most used players by position, Most successful lineup

Legend: FB = Fullback; C = Centre; W = Winger; FE = Five-Eighth; HB = Half-back; FR = Front Row; H = Hooker; 2R = Back Row; L = Lock; B = Bench.

Season Player Summary

Note: Hold the mouse over the game number to see the date and opponent for that match.

Player	1 NLC	2 NLC	3 NLC	4 NLC	3 CC	1	2	3	4 CC	4	6	7	8	5 CC	10	11	QF CC	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	21	9	22
Ben McALPINE	FB	FB	FB		FB	FB	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	W	W	C	C	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W
Robin PEERS	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W		W	W				W	W
Kevin NEIGHBOUR	C	C	C	C	C	C	FB	FB	FB	FB
Jamie CORDING	C	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R				B	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	L	2R	2R	2R	2R
Stewart SANDERSON	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	FB	FB		W	W	W	W	W	W			W	W	W	W	W
Neil THORMAN	FE	FE	FE	FB	FE	FE	FE	FE	FE	FE	FB	FB	FE	FE	FE	FE	FE	FB	B	B	B	B	B	B	B	B	HB	HB
Luke BRANIGHAN	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	FE	HB
Jason PAYNE	FR		FR	B	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR
Andrew HENDERSON	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H			H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H
Ryan McBRIDE	FR	FR	FR	B		B	B	B	B	B	B		B	B		B	B	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR	B	B	B	B	B
Rhys CLARKE	2R	B	B		B	2R	B	2R	2R	2R	B	L	B	B
Dylan NASH	2R	2R	2R	2R		C	C	C	C	C	2R	C	C	C	C	C	2R		C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C
Mike KNOWLES	L	L	L	B	L	L	2R	2R	2R	2R	L	2R	2R	2R	2R	L	L	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R
Ryan CLARKE	B					B	B	B	B	B	FE	FE	L	L	B	B	H	H									B	B
Crawford MATTHEWS	B												W	W
Chris PARKER	B	FR	B	L	B	B	L	B	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR		B	B
Jonathan WALKER	B	B	B	FR	B	FR		B
Joe ARUNDEL		C	C	C	C
David VERNON		B	B	B							B	B
Johnny SCOTT		B			B	B	B		B	B	B
Jamie RUSSO				FE	2R		2R	L	L	L	C
Tabua CAKACAKA				FR	FR		FR	FR				B	FR	FR	FR	FR	B	B	B
Mark DACK									B			B
Dean ANDREWS												B			B
Matt BARRON													B	B	B	2R	B	B	B	B	B	B	B	B	B	B	B	B
Sam CROWTHER													B	B	B	B	FR	B
Nick YOUNGQUEST															FB	FB	FB		FB	FB	FB	FB	FB	FB	FB	FB	FB	FB
Paul FRANZE															C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C
Kris KAHLER															L	FR	FR	L	L	L	L	L	L	2R	L	L	L	L
Liam WATTS																B		FR	FR	B	B	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR
Russell AITKEN																		FE	FE	FE	FE	FE	FE	FE	HB	FE	FE	FE
Nathan MASSEY																			B	FR	FR	B	B	FR	FR	FR	B	FR
Anthony ENGLAND																				B	B	B	B	B	B	B	FR	B

List of Matches

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Competition	Round	Opposition		Score			FB1	W2	C3	C4	W5	FE6	HB7	FR8	HK9	FR10	2R11	2R12	L13	B14	B15	B16	B17
National League Cup	Round 1	Keighley	L	20	-	40	McAlpine   1T	Peers	Neighbour   1T	Cording	Sanderson   1T	Thorman	Branighan   1T 2G	Payne	Henderson	McBride	R. Clarke	Nash	Knowles	R. Clarke	Matthews	Parker	Walker	>
National League Cup	Round 2	Sheffield	W	44	-	18	McAlpine	Peers   1T	Neighbour   1T	Arundel   1T	Sanderson   1T	Thorman	Branighan   1T 6G	Parker	Henderson	McBride	Nash   3T	Cording	Knowles	Vernon	R. Clarke	Walker	Scott	>
National League Cup	Round 3	Widnes	L	18	-	40	McAlpine	Peers	Arundel   2T	Neighbour	Sanderson   1T	Thorman   1T 1G	Branighan	Payne▮	Henderson	McBride	Nash▮	Cording	Knowles	Parker	Vernon	R. Clarke	Walker	>
National League Cup	Round 4	Rochdale H.	W	46	-	22	Thorman	Peers   1T	Neighbour   1T	Arundel   1T	Sanderson   3T	Russo	Branighan   1G	Cakacaka	Henderson   1T	Walker	Nash   1T	Cording	Parker   1T	Vernon	Payne	Knowles   4G	McBride	>
Challenge Cup	Round 3	Whitehaven	W	42	-	38	McAlpine	Peers	Neighbour   1T	Arundel	Sanderson   2T	Thorman	Branighan   2T	Cakacaka	Henderson   2T	Payne	Russo	Cording	Knowles   7G	Parker	Scott	R. Clarke	Walker	>
Championship	Round 1	Whitehaven	L	18	-	40	McAlpine   1T	Peers	Neighbour	Nash▮	Sanderson	Thorman   1T	Branighan   1T	Payne	Henderson	Walker	Cording	R. Clarke	Knowles   3G	R. Clarke	Scott	Parker	McBride	>
Championship	Round 2	Barrow	L	14	-	38	Neighbour	Peers	McAlpine   1T	Nash	Sanderson   1T	Thorman	Branighan   1T	Payne	Henderson	Cakacaka	Knowles   1G	Russo	Parker	R. Clarke	McBride	Scott	R. Clarke	>
Championship	Round 3	Batley	D	20	-	20	Neighbour	Peers	McAlpine	Nash   2T	Sanderson	Thorman	Branighan   1T	Payne	Henderson	Cakacaka	Knowles   4G	R. Clarke	Russo	R. Clarke	Parker	McBride	Walker	>
Challenge Cup	Round 4	Doncaster	W	32	-	18	Neighbour	Peers	McAlpine   2G	Nash   1T	Sanderson   1T	Thorman	Branighan   2T	Payne	Henderson   1T	Parker	R. Clarke	Knowles   1T 2G	Russo	R. Clarke	McBride	Scott	Dack	>
Championship	Round 4	Featherstone R.	L	2	-	23	Neighbour	Peers	McAlpine	Nash	Sanderson	Thorman	Branighan	Payne	Henderson	Parker	Knowles   1G	R. Clarke	Russo	R. Clarke	Cording	Scott	McBride	>
Championship	Round 6	Sheffield	W	41	-	36	Thorman   1F	Peers   1T	McAlpine   1T	Russo	Sanderson   2T	R. Clarke	Branighan   1T	Payne	Henderson	Parker   1T	Nash	Cording	Knowles   1T 6G	R. Clarke	Vernon	Scott	McBride	>
Championship	Round 7	Halifax	L	28	-	72	Thorman	Peers   1T	McAlpine   2T 1G	Nash	Sanderson   1T	R. Clarke	Branighan	Payne	Henderson	Parker	Cording   2T	Knowles   1G	R. Clarke	Cakacaka	Vernon	Dack	Andrews	>
Championship	Round 8	Doncaster	W	45	-	42	Sanderson   1T	Peers   1T	McAlpine   1T	Nash	Matthews	Thorman	Branighan   1T	Parker	Henderson   1T	Cakacaka	Knowles   2T 6G	Cording	R. Clarke   1F	Barron   1T	R. Clarke	McBride	Crowther	>
Challenge Cup	Round 5	Oldham	W	34	-	16	Sanderson   1T	Peers	Nash	McAlpine   1T	Matthews	Thorman	Branighan   2T	Parker	Henderson	Cakacaka	Cording	Knowles   1T 5G	R. Clarke	Crowther	McBride	Barron   1T	R. Clarke	>
Championship	Round 10	Whitehaven	L	34	-	38	Youngquest   2T	Peers	Nash	Franze   2T	McAlpine   1T 1G	Thorman	Branighan	Cakacaka	Henderson	Parker	Knowles   2G▮	Cording   1T	Kahler   1T	R. Clarke	Barron	Crowther	Andrews	>
Championship	Round 11	Widnes	L	30	-	46	Youngquest   1T	McAlpine	Nash   1T▮	Franze   1T	Sanderson	Thorman	Branighan   1T	Cakacaka	Henderson   1T	Kahler	Barron	Cording	Knowles   5G	R. Clarke	McBride	Crowther	Watts	>
Challenge Cup	Quarter Final	St Helens	L	6	-	66	Youngquest   1G	Peers	McAlpine   1T	Franze	Sanderson	Thorman	Branighan	Kahler	R. Clarke	Crowther	Nash	Cording	Knowles	Parker	Barron	McBride	Cakacaka	>
Championship	Round 12	Toulouse	L	16	-	52	Thorman	Peers	McAlpine	Franze   1T	Sanderson	Aitken   2T	Branighan	Watts	R. Clarke	McBride▮	Knowles   2G	Cording	Kahler	Parker	Barron	Crowther	Cakacaka	>
Championship	Round 13	Leigh	W	40	-	12	Youngquest   2T▮	McAlpine	Franze   1T	Nash   1T	Sanderson   1T	Aitken	Branighan	Watts	Henderson	McBride	Cording   1T	Knowles   1T 6G	Kahler	Thorman	Massey	Barron	Cakacaka	>
Championship	Round 14	Halifax	W	34	-	28	Youngquest	McAlpine   1T	Nash   3T	Franze	Sanderson	Aitken	Branighan   1T	Massey	Henderson	McBride	Knowles   5G	Cording   1T	Kahler	Watts	Barron	England	Thorman	>
Championship	Round 15	Featherstone R.	L	40	-	56	Youngquest   1T	McAlpine   1T	Nash	Franze	Sanderson   2T	Aitken   1T	Branighan   2T	Massey	Henderson	McBride	Knowles   6G	Cording	Kahler	Watts	Barron	England	Thorman	>
Championship	Round 16	Widnes	W	34	-	18	Youngquest   1T	McAlpine   1T	Nash	Franze	Peers	Aitken	Branighan   1T	Watts	Henderson	McBride	Knowles   5G	Cording   1T	Kahler	Massey	Barron	England   1T	Thorman   1T	>
Championship	Round 17	Sheffield	L	30	-	46	Youngquest   3T	McAlpine	Nash	Franze   2T▮	Peers	Aitken	Branighan	Watts	Henderson	McBride	Cording	Knowles   3G	Kahler	Massey	England	Barron	Thorman   1T	>
Championship	Round 18	Batley	D	34	-	34	Youngquest   2T	McAlpine   2T	Nash	Franze   1T	Sanderson	Aitken	Branighan   1T	Watts	Henderson	Massey	Knowles   5G	Kahler	Cording	McBride	Barron	England	Thorman	>
Championship	Round 19	Toulouse	W	48	-	20	Youngquest	McAlpine   2T	Nash	Franze	Sanderson   1T	Branighan   1T	Aitken   2T	Watts	Henderson	Massey	Cording   2T	Knowles   1T 6G	Kahler	McBride	Barron	England	Thorman	>
Championship	Round 21	Leigh	W	30	-	24	Youngquest   3T	McAlpine	Nash	Franze	Sanderson   1T	Aitken	Branighan   1T	Watts	Henderson	Massey	Knowles   5G	Cording	Kahler	McBride	Barron	England	Thorman	>
Championship	Round 9	Barrow	W	16	-	12	Youngquest	McAlpine	Nash   1T	Franze	Sanderson	Aitken	Thorman	Watts	Henderson	England	Knowles   1T 4G	Cording	Kahler	McBride	Barron	R. Clarke	Massey	>
Championship	Round 22	Doncaster	W	56	-	0	Youngquest	McAlpine   1T	Nash	Franze   3T	Sanderson   2T	Aitken	Thorman	Massey	Henderson	Watts   1T	Cording   1T	Knowles   8G	Kahler   2T	McBride	England	Barron	R. Clarke	>

Contributions: Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson, Greg Fiveash, AJ Lucantonio

Sources: League Express Rugby League Yearbook (1996 to present)