Ranking Magic Weekend’s top try-scorers with Hull KR, Leeds icons in wild list
Ryan Hall, Joel Monaghan and Ben Jones-Bishop
For the 18th time in Super League history, Magic Weekend returns this week – with St James’ Park the latest venue for one of the biggest events in the competition’s calendar.
And there are a number of players who have left their mark on the event throughout the years, in more ways than one. But one obvious metric to measure is those who have scored the most tries in Magic history.
It’s a top 10 list which looks dramatically different to the top 10 of all-time: though there are one or two players on there you’d expect to see on both. Without further ado, let’s start with the man tied just inside the top 10..
=7. Tommy Makinson, Paul Wellens, Jermaine McGillvary, Scott Grix, Ade Gardner, Ryan Atkins (7 tries)
Yep, that’s right: there are a staggering six different players, spanning the entire history of the event, level first up.
That list includes one man that will hope to move further up the list this weekend in St Helens winger Makinson, the only current active Super League player tied on six tries.
Wellens, his coach at St Helens, was involved in the early days of Magic Weekend, while McGillvary has produced one or two sensational finishes down the years.
Grix, Gardner and Atkins’ tallies of seven come for two different clubs: Grix for Huddersfield and Wakefield, Gardner for Hull KR and St Helens, and Atkins for Warrington and Wakefield.
=5. Joel Monaghan and Sam Tomkins (8 tries)
Two men who have gone about accumulating their eight tries in very different ways: not least because over half of Monaghan’s tally came in one single game!
His FIVE at the 2012 Magic Weekend is still a record that has not been bettered to this day. Tomkins, in contrast, has scored his tries across a prolonged period for Wigan Warriors and Catalans Dragons: but injury has ruled him out of adding to that tally this weekend at Elland Road.
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=3. Jodie Broughton and Stefan Ratchford (10 tries)
Only four men have scored double figures in terms of tries at the Magic Weekend: and the two men in joint-third have exactly ten.
Both have played for Salford Red Devils throughout their career, with current Wire stalwart Ratchford beginning his career there before switching to the Halliwell Jones Stadium.
The surprise name so high is arguably Broughton though. A fine winger in his day, Broughton always seemed to have a knack of scoring tries at Magic no matter who he played for!
2. Ben Jones-Bishop (11 tries)
Two men who were team-mates at Leeds Rhinos once upon a time sit in the top two of the list.
Jones-Bishop’s haul of 11 tries have come across three different clubs: Wakefield Trinity, Salford Red Devils and the Rhinos.
But one man beats him to the top spot..
1. Ryan Hall (13 tries)
That’s right – who else. It’s the man who is Super League’s all-time top try-scorer who is the most prolific try-scorer at Magic Weekend.
This time last year, Hall was level with Jones-Bishop on 11 tries. But he scored twice at Elland Road last year to move top of another try-scoring chart.
He won’t be in Newcastle this weekend – but he won’t be surpassed at the top, either.
All stats courtesy of Danny Spencer, the RFL’s official statistician.
