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    Rumoured Targets 3

    So what do people think about Lee? There were rumours going around earlier in the year that the reason he wasn't playing was so we could use him as a mid-year player swap. Seems pretty evident in the last week that he's actually just re-broken his foot. So he's clearly very injury prone. But...
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    Match Discussion: Round 15 vs Warriors @ McDonald Jones Stadium

    Just rewatched our 2006 game against the Raiders. It's amazing how much the sport has changed. To say there would have been 10 bins based on modern PVL ball is conservative. It's actually quite nice to watch pre-Bellamy ball, where dominant runs just naturally result in quick plat-the-balls...
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    2021 Knights rep players

    So this is the situation I was talking about when I wrote this. My (uninformed) guess is that KP probably could have played this week, and probably would have if it and the next were regular NRL rounds. Butif he played this week QLD would pick him. So instead of playing both those games, he and...
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    Match Discussion: Round 14 vs South Sydney @ Stadium Australia

    Certain things that work in juniors don't work in first grade.
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    Match Discussion: Round 14 vs South Sydney @ Stadium Australia

    Imagine a fair few will disagree, but if we're getting back the four blokes Adzy suggested at the presser, this team is going to look night and day even next week. We're lucky that we get to play a not very good Warriors team to go through structures etc. It's one thing to criticise our shape...
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    Rumoured Targets 3

    I think this is right. Couldn't get him for cheap enough/ I think there is some credence to the idea we were trying to swap him for Klemmer. Get 85% of the impact of Klem for 50% of the price. But for an organisation struggling for good PR at the moment, it's an easier sell that they "listened...
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    2021 Knights rep players

    There is no reason to pick KP at 6. Both because he's their clear best option at fullback, and because Munster is literally the only player in their backline that isn't a problem. I'd be more interested, given the fiasco with picking him while clearly unavailable this week, and the bad history...
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    Match Discussion: R13 vs Parramatta @ McDonald Jones - Old Boys Day

    I know some are sick of hearing about injuries, and think mentioning it is just an excuse. Maybe that's right and maybe that's wrong. But what proportion of our 30 man salary cap was unavailable today? The 2021 cap is 9m. Pearce and Ponga are on about 2m between them this year, Klemmer and...
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    Match Discussion: R13 vs Parramatta @ McDonald Jones - Old Boys Day

    Musgrove... "good in the air"
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    Match Discussion: R13 vs Parramatta @ McDonald Jones - Old Boys Day

    We're shorter odds against Parra than we were against Manly, so as you say, who knows? I think the Eels have a bit of flat track bully in them this year, so if our edge defence can hold up as well as it did last week, I think we're a chance. Would have loved for Brown to be out another week.
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    Match Discussion: Round 12 vs Manly @ McDonald Jones Stadium

    Less disjointed in attack? We had 57% possession, 55% territory, 9-1 penalties, and 41 tackles in the opposition 20. And we scored 3 tries, only 1 through a backline move. Our attack was awful. Penrith would have put on 60. We missed Ponga and we missed Pearce (and although we haven't had him...
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    Match Discussion: Round 12 vs Manly @ McDonald Jones Stadium

    Had to watch on replay, so just finished. Will go through the other comments, so apologies if I'm repeating consensus. Massive win for the course of our season, against a team playing top 4 footy coming into it. Mostly nullified Turbo, which was a massive effort. Our edge defence was actually...
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    Rumoured Targets 3

    What's the source that they're looking for similar money? As I understand it, Newcastle are looking to offer Mann replacement level money to be a jack of all trades backup at a number of positions. Whereas Hynes is looking to leave Melbourne for a big starting contract.
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    Rumoured Targets 3

    If 5/8 has been a position we've struggled with this year, why would getting rid of one (who is thereby definitionally a struggling player) be a bad thing? Especially given we would just be replacing him with Clifford. And which of our props has been strong this season?
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    Match Discussion: Round 11 vs North Qld @ Queensland Country Bank Stadium

    What I liked about Sasagi's debut is that he actually looked like a plus athlete even on an NRL field. Something that I'm not sure you could say about a lot of the other younger outside backs we've had come through lately (Hoy, Musgrove, Toa etc.)
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    Match Discussion: Round 11 vs North Qld @ Queensland Country Bank Stadium

    So it turns out that a right edge made up of a 5/8 who can't move side to side, a centre who has no experience playing centre, and a winger who has no experience playing winger doesn't work. Also Mann on the field doesn't work.
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    Where to from here?

    Would that be the most inexperienced backline ever named in the NRL era? And two total games between Sasagi and Johns off the bench...
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    Rumoured Targets 3

    This first paragraph is spot on re flow-on effects at the club. The same is true with signing Pearce - we had to offer very big money to guys who were probably past their peaks to get them to the club. At the time, we were historically terrible. From a 2021 perspective, they're two bad...
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    Match Discussion: Round 9 vs Canberra @ McDonalds Park

    Tbh, I've been disappointed in Klemmer since his first game here. That clip package you posted is actually quite interesting, because it highlights the deficiencies in his game that we're seeing at the moment were always there. With one exemption, every single one of the play the balls it...
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    Rumoured Targets 3

    He was very good. There's a lot of fans who don't watch juniors and don't watch reggies, and therefore wrote him off on the back of a few poor games this year (in a consistently well beaten side). IMO he's a real prospect, and while it won't happen round 1 2022, he has the potential to be a...

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