A celebration of the club's former players, officials and support staff, held annually at the Knights final home game of the season.

Old Boys Day will have even greater significance next year with a 20-year reunion planned to also mark the club's second premiership win in 2001.

But some inexplicable match scheduling from the NRL, labelled "an absolute joke" by premiership-winning coach Michael Hagan, could force a change to the tradition.

The Once a Knight Old Boys board will meet on Thursday night to discuss switching their day from the final home game to another game during the season for the first time, after the club was allocated a Thursday night clash against the Titans in the second last round.

Given the Knights defeated Parramatta in the 2001 decider, it has been suggested Old Boys Day and the premiership reunion be celebrated mid-year, when Newcastle take on the Eels at McDonald Jones Stadium on June 6.

"It has been proposed that we change it to that day given they [NRL] have allocated us a Thursday night for the last home game and we've got some people trave'ling from interstate," Once a Knight Old Boys' chairman Steve Crowe said.

"If we leave it where it is, you are talking about having to take Thursday and Friday off work just to get to Newcastle and you run the risk of not having everyone there which is not what we want.

"We had a meeting scheduled for Thursday night anyway and we've added this to the agenda. We'll have a position on it after that meeting and the club want our decision as soon as possible. I think the club will be flexible on it. They see it as problematic where it is currently."

If the change is made as expected, the 2001 reunion could mirror that of the 20-year reunion back in 2017 of the club's first premiership-winning team.

"For the 97 side, Old Boys Day was a Sunday and we got everyone together on the Saturday for a lunch at the Newcastle Club and that was a great event which the club was right behind and help fund," he said. "We could do something similar if we change it to that Sunday and get all the boys together the day before the game and then at the ground and make it pretty special for not only the boys but for the fans as well.

"But we'll see what comes out of the meeting."

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