08 :: R15 Sun :: Knights 14 Roosters 16 @ EnergyAustralia

[BeeeeeRad]

I don't care how we score tbh, as long as we keep scoring and winning games I remain happy.

 

[Slippers]

A few things:

1. Bicey - lol.

2. The Roosters have scored plenty of tries through the hands this year, and they should have been awarded one today. No it wasn't the most convincing win, but the Knights scored one off a bomb and one off a soft dummy half missed tackle.. Would you say the Knights flexed their attacking muscle anymore than the Roosters?

3. The Roosters' line defence kept them in the game - noone is mentioning that.

4. Mason is in a rough patch but is a great player.. he has played some monumental games this year.. but of course people will only notice the bad games.

 

[Bicey_18]

A few things:

1. Bicey - lol.

2. The Roosters have scored plenty of tries through the hands this year, and they should have been awarded one today. No it wasn't the most convincing win, but the Knights scored one off a bomb and one off a soft dummy half missed tackle.. Would you say the Knights flexed their attacking muscle anymore than the Roosters?

3. The Roosters' line defence kept them in the game - noone is mentioning that.

4. Mason is in a rough patch but is a great player.. he has played some monumental games this year.. but of course people will only notice the bad games.

With a name like slippers I wouldnt be laughing at anyone else...

 

[Slippers]

Keep digging bro.

 

[NthKnight]

Bicey mate, sh*t canning the c**ks for scoring off kicks is pretty short sighted. If it were the Knights up there in the top 4 scoring 57% (yes 57%, which is hardly all) from kicks you would be praising their brilliant attack.

Fact is the Knights made wwwwaaaaayyyy too many errors which cost us the game. Not the roosters kicking, not the video ref, not Gary Freeman, just too many errors plain and simple.

 

[Deleted member 10972]

Bicey mate, sh*t canning the c**ks for scoring off kicks is pretty short sighted. If it were the Knights up there in the top 4 scoring 57% (yes 57%, which is hardly all) from kicks you would be praising their brilliant attack.

Fact is the Knights made wwwwaaaaayyyy too many errors which cost us the game. Not the roosters kicking, not the video ref, not Gary Freeman, just too many errors plain and simple.

Bulls eye mate.

A non-singlemindedly bias Knights fan tell it how it is.

Knights played bad, that is why they lost. And you can't criticize Roosters for scoring off kicks, you can't do that when you are camped in your own half from a lack of go forward. We have the go-forward to get ourselves into a kicking position, and its working.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

 

[Jono078]

I been saying it the last few weeks in the Knights forum.

I envy the Roosters ability to execute attacking kicks and score off of them.

I think we've scored like 4 times off of kicks this year, that's just piss poor if that's the case.

 

[adamkungl]

Some have got to be kidding here...goosters get 2..thats 2! tries from fluffy duck kicks and then "Benefit of the doubt"bullsh*t..Buderus/Paterson had you ripped to shreads and only for a little forethought to keep his arm up in the tackle...bit of a reality check for you lot...you were very lucky to get...well...lets look at it... any tries!

Benefit of the doubt bullsh*t indeed. there was no doubt. Buderus taking a run from dummy half is ripping us to shreds? Paterson scoring of a 'fluffy duck' kick? :lol: It isnt luck if we do it week in week out.

 

[strewth_mate]

I been saying it the last few weeks in the Knights forum.

I envy the Roosters ability to execute attacking kicks and score off of them.

I think we've scored like 4 times off of kicks this year, that's just piss poor if that's the case.

It'll be rather difficult to say this without skirting dangerously close to the one-eyed Knights fan stereotype, but anyway. I agree with the above as a general rule, but a couple of the Roosters' tries today might be attributed to woeful defending against somewhat ordinary kicks. They've scored many tries this year through freakishly clinical placement but two of today's were unfortunately scrappy affairs.

That said, they were all over us in the air, so it was a matter of inevitability that the points would come off the boot anyway. And it's nothing to do with sulking about a loss. Far be it from me to downplay the quality of their kicking game.

 

[Jobdog]

Defuse the Roosters ability to score tries off kicks and you win the game, pretty simple really. Exactly how you do that, I'm not too sure

 

[skeepe]

I love it when Newcastle lose. Bicey has been nothing short of hilarious.

 

[perverse]

pretty frustrating to be a knights fan at the moment. now i know how the dragons fans have been feeling the last 4 or 5 years. so much potential, no consistency. we dropped way too much ball to win a game of football against the roosters (mind you, they did too.. a draw would have been somewhat appropriate), however we just lack the killer instinct at the moment. when a game is in the balance we don't know how to close it off and play high percentage football.

i'd like to say well played roosters, but i can't, because they were just as sh*tty. it's a bit early to be looking towards next year already, particularly as we're still in the 8... but we really need to start gelling better before we're considered a force in the competition again. for the moment we'll be the team that no-one wants to play against, because you never know what you're going to get.

 

[Jobdog]

pretty frustrating to be a knights fan at the moment. now i know how the dragons fans have been feeling the last 4 or 5 years. so much potential, no consistency. we dropped way too much ball to win a game of football against the roosters (mind you, they did too.. a draw would have been somewhat appropriate), however we just lack the killer instinct at the moment. when a game is in the balance we don't know how to close it off and play high percentage football.

i'd like to say well played roosters, but i can't, because they were just as sh*tty. it's a bit early to be looking towards next year already, particularly as we're still in the 8... but we really need to start gelling better before we're considered a force in the competition again. for the moment we'll be the team that no-one wants to play against, because you never know what you're going to get.

Pretty much sums it up.

Btw Skeepey, Bicey's just thrown a green jumper on for 48 hours or so.

 

[Tom Ace]

Hey for once I would love to see the Roosters score without kicking... just once

Here ya go champ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spqTN4mhYYA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6OpfDUj3Jw

Enjoy.

 

[~knights~]

I went to the game

but have just watched the replay

arghhh!!!

gary freeman is an absolute tosser !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!