Match Discussion: Round 25 vs Souths @ McDonald Jones Stadium, New Lambton / Awabakal

[Woody90]

Hastings named at 7 but I reckon it'll be a wait and see thing.

Yeah I’m pretty sure Clune will play instead. Not a bad idea to keep the opposition guessing a bit.

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

Sell out official. Expect Sharks game will do same if we win this.

I reckon that game will come close already being Old Boys Day

 

[The Axe of Druss]

Going to be wearing the cursed mining jerseys.

Weve actually won our fair share of games while wearing them

They look shit though

 

[Zoidberg]

Weve actually won our fair share of games while wearing them

They look shit though

Have we? It’s always felt like it’s cursed.

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

Have we? It’s always felt like it’s cursed.

I think I read somewhere the win/loss ratio is actually pretty even. Pretty sure we wore it when we won our only game in 2016

 

[Old dog]

That’s the strongest 1-17 we’ve had this year- hopefully it’s the team that runs out.

Think we have had that same 1-17 a few times this year

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

Time to bring it back

 

[The Axe of Druss]

Sell out crowd. Souths out of form massively. best team we could possibly field

Souths by 20

 

[mozza91]

Not too worried if Hastings can’t back up. Clune is a better player than Ilias anyway. I’m really confident about this one. I think we’ll give them a touch up.

 

[jason taylor]

Time to bring it back

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Still the best thing to ever come out of this forum.

Go Knights - put a score on them!

 

[SamSepi0l]

Not too worried if Hastings can’t back up. Clune is a better player than Ilias anyway. I’m really confident about this one. I think we’ll give them a touch up.

How's the hangover this morning?

 

[mozza91]

How's the hangover this morning?

Didn’t drink last night. It’ll be shocking tomorrow morning though.

 

[Knight Tales]

If we win the next two I think we are entitled to believe we can make the big dance. At least we are going to know how close we are this time with no soft draw going in. Playing two sides who expect to be there by default. Souths will go out on their own sword on Sunday one way or the other. We are in uncharted waters. Our own destiny in our hands with three desperate sides on our arse in Roosters, Souths and Cowboys. Usually we do the chasing waiting for one of them to fall over first.

 

[perverse]

If we win the next two I think we are entitled to believe we can make the big dance. At least we are going to know how close we are this time with no soft draw going in. Playing two sides who expect to be there by default. Souths will go out on their own sword on Sunday one way or the other. We are in uncharted waters. Our own destiny in our hands with three desperate sides on our arse in Roosters, Souths and Cowboys. Usually we do the chasing waiting for one of them to fall over first.

If we win what... 9 on the trot heading into the finals I wouldn't write us off for a grand final appearance, as unlikely as it all is. It's within the realms of feasibility. Still a long way to go before then. Every game, except perhaps the Dragons, is a mountain to climb between now and then. We're undeniably one of 3 or 4 form teams of the competition at the moment.

 

[Yosh]

If we win what... 9 on the trot heading into the finals I wouldn't write us off for a grand final appearance, as unlikely as it all is. It's within the realms of feasibility. Still a long way to go before then. Every game, except perhaps the Dragons, is a mountain to climb between now and then. We're undeniably one of 3 or 4 form teams of the competition at the moment.

Sounds unbelievable but I just want us to take it one game at a time. Every game is a grand final for us at the moment. A grand final appearance sounds utterly amazing but I'd be stoked for a home game finals week 1.

 

[perverse]

Sounds unbelievable but I just want us to take it one game at a time. Every game is a grand final for us at the moment. A grand final appearance sounds utterly amazing but I'd be stoked for a home game finals week 1.

Pretty much. Every win is a blessing right now. All I'm saying is that we're playing with enough conviction and honesty at the moment to not rule anything out. Been a long time since we had our tails up this high.

 

[Apey]

For funsies I had a quick run through the ladder predictor for the remaining rounds with a few scenarios.

5th if we win all 3
6th if we drop just 1 game (regardless of which one)
7th if we drop Souths & Sharks games
9th if we drop all 3

Lots of close/big match ups in the last few rounds that will impact this though.

 

[Zoidberg]

I’ve been asking myself “would we be better off losing one of the next 2 games?”.

 

[Knight Tales]

If we win what... 9 on the trot heading into the finals I wouldn't write us off for a grand final appearance, as unlikely as it all is. It's within the realms of feasibility. Still a long way to go before then. Every game, except perhaps the Dragons, is a mountain to climb between now and then. We're undeniably one of 3 or 4 form teams of the competition at the moment.

9 in a row would be exceptional and quite unexpected. Have we actually ever done that before? It does not sound like us does it.

 

[Bring it home Knights]

9 in a row would be exceptional and quite unexpected. Have we actually ever done that before? It does not sound like us does it.

I’m pretty sure that in 1995 we won the first 9 games of the season and ended up with one loss after 12 rounds.