2019 Toronto Wolfpack season explained

This article details the Toronto Wolfpack's rugby league football club's 2019 season. This is the Wolfpack's third season overall and second season in the RFL Championship.

Competitions

Pre-season friendlies

Date	Home	Score	Away	Venue	Tries	Goals	Attendance
	19 January		24-14	Toronto Wolfpack			O'Brien 1/3
	26 January		12-48	Toronto Wolfpack			O'Brien 4/6, Wallace 2/3

Championship

Results

Date	Rnd	Home	Score	Away	Venue	Tries	Goals	Attendance
	3 February	1		0-14	Toronto Wolfpack			O’Brien 1/3	2,518
	10 February	2		6-58	Toronto Wolfpack			O’Brien 7/11	694
	16 February	3	Toronto Wolfpack	30-6				O’Brien 5/6	1,817
	24 February	4		8-14	Toronto Wolfpack			O’Brien 1/3	3,142
	3 March	5		17-22	Toronto Wolfpack			O’Brien 3/4	1,251
	9 March	6		46-16	Toronto Wolfpack			O’Brien 2/3	6,103
	17 March	7	Toronto Wolfpack	34-12				O’Brien 2/6, Brierley 1/1	7,203
	24 March	8		12-48	Toronto Wolfpack			O’Brien 6/9	2,090
	6 April	9	Toronto Wolfpack	40-10				O'Brien 1/4, Wallace 3/4	1,148
	19 April	10		26-52	Toronto Wolfpack			Wallace 8/9	1,417
	22 April	11		14-23	Toronto Wolfpack			Wallace 1/5, McCrone DG	2,101
	28 April	12	Toronto Wolfpack	52-10				Wallace 8/10	9,562
	4 May	13	Toronto Wolfpack	36-16		Lamport Stadium		O'Brien 4/7	8,363
	18 May	14		14-42	Toronto Wolfpack			O'Brien 7/8	7,912
	24 May	15		16-42	Toronto Wolfpack			Wallace 5/8	932
	9 June	16		14-34	Toronto Wolfpack			Wallace 5/6	1,281
	15 June	17	Toronto Wolfpack	70-8		Lamport Stadium		O'Brien 11/12	6,735
	22 June	18	Toronto Wolfpack	28-16		Lamport Stadium		O'Brien 6/7	7,742
	30 June	19		10-40	Toronto Wolfpack			O'Brien 5/5, Wallace 1/1, Miloudi 0/1	894
	6 July	20	Toronto Wolfpack	34-12		Lamport Stadium		O'Brien 5/6	6,749
	13 July	21	Toronto Wolfpack	22-18		Lamport Stadium		O'Brien 3/4, Rawsthorne 0/1	7,819
	21 July	22		19-24	Toronto Wolfpack			McCrone 1/4, Miloudi 1/1	3,813
	4 August	23		20-25	Toronto Wolfpack			Wallace 1/3, Miloudi 1/2, Miloudi DG	3,121
	10 August	24	Toronto Wolfpack	56-6		Lamport Stadium		O’Brien 5/10, Wallace 1/1	7,261
	17 August	25	Toronto Wolfpack	46-0		Lamport Stadium		O’Brien 3/7, Miloudi 2/3	5,769
	31 August	26	Toronto Wolfpack	62-8		Lamport Stadium		O’Brien 9/11	7,129
	7 September	27	Toronto Wolfpack	46-12		Lamport Stadium		O’Brien 7/8	8,152

Play-offs

Date	Game	Home	Score	Away	Venue	Tries	Goals	Attendance
	22 September	Semi-final	Toronto Wolfpack	40-24		Lamport Stadium		O’Brien 4/8	9,325
	5 October	Grand Final	Toronto Wolfpack	24-6		Lamport Stadium		O’Brien 2/3, Wallace 2/2	9,974

Squad statistics

As of 5 October

No	Player	Position		Apps	Tries	Goals	DG	Points
1			27	27	20	99	0	278
2			25	21	27	0	0	108
3			29	17	13	0	0	52
4			28	28	18	0	0	72
5			28	16	11	0	0	44
6			28	21	8	0	0	32
7			31	28	9	1	1	39
8			32	17	5	0	0	20
9			35	17	4	0	0	16
10			34	23	0	0	0	0
11			29	29	13	0	0	52
12			30	21	4	0	0	16
13			35	27	2	0	0	8
14			26	29	14	0	0	56
15			29	25	3	0	0	12
16			27	29	4	0	0	16
17			27	23	16	35	0	134
18			25	18	0	0	0	0
19			28	3	2	0	0	8
20			31	7	3	0	0	12
21			27	24	4	0	0	16
22			28	9	2	0	0	8
23			26	5	1	1	0	6
24			23	14	9	0	0	36
25			23	3	1	0	0	4
26			23	2	0	0	0	0
27			26	10	4	4	1	25
29			31	2	1	0	0	4
33			27	1	0	0	0	0

Transfers

In

Nat	Name	Position	Signed from	Date
	Ricky Leutele	Centre	Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks	May 2018
	Jon Wilkin	Second row	St. Helens	October 2018
	Joe Mellor	Scrum half	Widnes Vikings	October 2018
	Bodene Thompson	Second row	Warrington Wolves	October 2018
	Tom Olbison	Second row	Widnes Vikings	October 2018
	Gadwin Springer	Prop	Castleford Tigers	October 2018
	Anthony Mullally	Prop	Leeds Rhinos	February 2019
	Jack Logan	Centre	Hull F.C. (Loan)	March 2019
	Brad Fash	Second row	Hull F.C. (Loan)	March 2019
	Hakim Miloudi	Wing	Hull F.C.	April 2019

Out

Nat	Name	Position	Club signed	Date
	Jack Bussey	Loose forward	Featherstone Rovers	September 2018
	Cory Paterson	Second row	Retirement	October 2018
	Richard Whiting	Centre	Retirement	October 2018
	Quinn Ngawati	Stand off	Released	October 2018
	Jonny Pownall	Wing	Leigh Centurions	November 2018
	James Laithwaite	Second row	Retirement	November 2018
	Ryan Burroughs	Wing	Released	November 2018
	Sam Hopkins	Prop	Workington Town	December 2018
	Jack Buchanan	Prop	Burleigh Bears	January 2019
	Olsi Krasniqi	Prop	London Broncos	May 2019
	Jacob Emmitt	Prop	Leigh Centurions	March 2019
	Nick Rawsthorne	Centre	York City Knights (Loan)	April 2019
	Mason Caton-Brown	Wing	Wakefield Trinity	April 2019
	Ryan Brierley	Stand off	Leigh Centurions (Loan)	April 2019
	Adam Higson	Wing	Leigh Centurions	June 2019

Milestones

Former Leeds Rhinos coach Brian McDermott has been named new Toronto Wolfpack head coach.^[1]

• Round 1: Ricky Leutele, Joe Mellor, Bodene Thompson, Jon Wilkin, Tom Olbison and Gadwin Springer made their debuts for the Wolfpack.
• Round 1: Joe Mellor scored his 1st try for the Wolfpack.
• Round 2: Jacob Emmitt made his 50th appearance for the Wolfpack.
• Round 2: Matty Russell scored his 1st four-try haul and 1st hat-trick for the Wolfpack.
• Round 2: Ricky Leutele scored his 1st try for the Wolfpack.
• Round 2: Gareth O'Brien reached 200 points for the Wolfpack.
• Round 4: Anthony Mullally made his debut for the Wolfpack.
• Round 4: Bodene Thompson scored his 1st try for the Wolfpack.
• Round 5: Bob Beswick made his 50th appearance for the Wolfpack.
• Round 6: Jack Logan made his debut for the Wolfpack.
• Round 6: Blake Wallace made his 50th appearance for the Wolfpack.
• Round 7: Brad Fash made his debut for the Wolfpack.
• Round 7: Jack Logan and Jon Wilkin scored their 1st try for the Wolfpack.
• Round 8: Andrew Dixon scored his 1st hat-trick for the Wolfpack.
• Round 9: Andrew Dixon made his 50th appearance for the Wolfpack.
• Round 9: Hakim Miloudi made his debut for the Wolfpack.
• Round 9: Tom Olbison scored his 1st try for the Wolfpack.
• Round 9: Blake Wallace kicked his 1st goal for the Wolfpack.
• Round 10: Gareth O'Brien scored his 2nd hat-trick for the Wolfpack.
• Round 10: Blake Wallace scored his 5th hat-trick for the Wolfpack.
• Round 10: Blake Wallace reached 200 points for the Wolfpack.
• Round 11: Matty Russell scored his 2nd hat-trick for the Wolfpack.
• Round 11: Josh McCrone kicked his 1st drop goal for the Wolfpack.

• Round 13: Gareth O'Brien kicked his 100th goal for the Wolfpack.
• Round 14: Chase Stanley scored his 1st hat-trick for the Wolfpack.
• Round 14: Gareth O'Brien reached 300 points for the Wolfpack.
• Round 15: Liam Kay made his 50th appearance for the Wolfpack.
• Round 16: Andrew Dixon scored his 25th try and reached 100 points for the Wolfpack.
• Round 17: Anthony Mullally scored his 1st try for the Wolfpack.
• Round 17: Matty Russell scored his 25th try and reached 100 points for the Wolfpack.
• Round 19: Andy Ackers made his 50th appearance for the Wolfpack.
• Round 20: Josh McCrone made his 50th appearance for the Wolfpack.
• Round 20: Gareth O'Brien scored his 25th try for the Wolfpack.
• Round 22: Josh McCrone and Hakim Miloudi kicked their 1st goal for the Wolfpack.
• Round 23: Greg Worthington made his 50th appearance for the Wolfpack.
• Round 23: Hakim Miloudi kicked his 1st drop goal for the Wolfpack.
• Round 23: Nick Rawsthorne scored his 25th try and reached 100 points for the Wolfpack.
• Round 24: Gareth O'Brien scored his 3rd hat-trick for the Wolfpack.
• Round 24: Andy Ackers scored his 25th try and reached 100 points for the Wolfpack.
• Round 24: Hakim Miloudi scored his 1st try for the Wolfpack.
• Round 24: Gareth O'Brien reached 400 points for the Wolfpack.
• Round 25: Matty Russell scored his 3rd hat-trick for the Wolfpack.
• Round 26: Liam Kay scored his 8th hat-trick for the Wolfpack.
• Semi Final: Gareth O'Brien made his 50th appearance for the Wolfpack.
• Semi Final: Ricky Leutele scored his 1st hat-trick for the Wolfpack.
• Final: Ashton Sims made his 50th appearance for the Wolfpack.
• Final: Blake Wallace scored his 50th try for the Wolfpack.

External links

• Toronto Wolfpack

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wolfpack turn to 'world-class coach' McDermott, set sights on Super League. CBC Sport . 11 November 2018 . 29 November 2018.