I only saw the first half and both teams were poor, the Tiges blew some great opportunities.
Last time we played Newie you could argue we were at our lowest point in 8 or 9 years or possibly ever. We were 13th on the ladder, we'd lost 3 on the trot and our useless coach was sacked and replaced by an incompetent freeloader who had absolutely no idea. We made 15 errors, gave them 5 penalties and a few restarts and let them blow us off the park in the first half 30 - 6. The man in jersey 1 played 5/8, jersey 9 played halfback, jersey 13 played hooker, 14 played starting prop etc, no f**king idea what was going on but we managed to match them in the second half ( 12 all ) I think because the boys just went f**k it let's play our way and ignore the young wanker with the clipboard. Over 400 tackles, ridiculous. Not a good day.
Things will be far different next Sunday. We're on the up, we're 4th ( or 5th if Titans get a big win ) on the ladder, won two in a row, 9 day turnaround, we're scoring points and defending like Trojans, confidence abounds and our new coach seems to come up with a different game plan for each team we face ( will wonders never cease ). We're actually 2nd best in attack with 81 points. We'll miss Hunt and knobhead Jack but they're without the Pong, Bradman Best and possibly Jacob Saifiti plus we'll have the very experienced Clune to step in and maybe Bud on the bench so not too bad overall.
I've gotta say their backs don't impress me at all and I think that's where we'll win it if our pack can just negate / match theirs for a good part of the game.
Dragons by 8