2020 R3 Sun - Panthers 14-14 Knights @ Campbelltown

[Frederick]

What a rude person.

Don't be such a moron then

 

[hineyrulz]

Yep very nicely @SBD82

 

[SBD82]

Yep very nicely @SBD82

 

[mxlegend99]

We had no Edwards, Cleary, Nadan and Martin. Also our halves needed to play smarter at times as we for most of the time lacked cohesion. But that bombed try by Mansour should see him dropped for next week.

Don't defend us. Aside from Cleary who improves us from those guys?

Cleary nails a field goal in all those attempts. Those others could have possibly made us worse.

We deserved to lose due to our lack of urgency. Amazing effort by the Knights with a 2 man bench. We should have won by 20+ but we’re just too predictable. I know we are unbeaten but our lack of attacking imagination makes us very frustrating to watch.

100%. Leading 14 nil against a 15 man side. There's no defending that unless you somehow get a worse run of injuries.

Panthers are technically yet to lose. But f**k me not one of those games has left me with any confidence for the year... That said getting points of poor games is not a bad thing. I just worry they paper over our issues and we don't improve as we didn't lose to think we need to

 

[blue bags]

This thread is warming up nicely.

shut up

 

[mxlegend99]

There are no moral victories. It was a moral draw.

Bullshit. One team was courageous and defied the odds to get a draw

The other team had everything go their way and defied the odds to get a draw.

Knights got far more from that mentally than Panthers did.

 

[Frederick]

 

[no name]

9 producer having a meltdown, their news is on late

Should have started it at 4 and they would have been sweet.

 

[blue bags]

Okie Dokie

we have better technology now, than stupid corner posts

 

[blue bags]

Just don’t let Burton attempt a field goal again

burton banned, bradman binned

 

[GongPanther]

Don't be such a moron then

Just adding a bit of perspective to why we were overall clunky in our attack. Hell, even in the first few sets of our defence we were getting holes bored into us.

The effort from your side is to be highly commended, but at times we were like the keystone cops with Mansour the cherry on top.

 

[Frederick]

 

[Apey]

I'm very happy we held on to get a draw, was expecting a loss in GP once we got back to 14. Still could have won it but it's hard to be too critical given the injury toll. Except of Kurt Mann. How unfortunate our last playmaker standing was Kurt Mann.

 

[blue bags]

No Pearce

No Ponga

No Brailey

No Watson

3 players on debut

And we still got a f**king point


Adam O'Brien, I love you

i tipped knights for top 8

 

[SBD82]

we have better technology now, than stupid corner posts

You seem passionate about it. And I just realised I couldn’t give a shit.

Maybe write a strongly worded letter to the NRL.

 

[Silent Knight]

I'm very happy we held on to get a draw, was expecting a loss in GP once we got back to 14. Still could have won it but it's hard to be too critical given the injury toll. Except of Kurt Mann. How unfortunate our last playmaker standing was Kurt Mann.

Kurt Mann is our lickety spit and I won’t hear a bad word about him. If he were to go out west and captain the new Mudgee NRL Superclub well then you’d just end up as another pickle in the lollyjar.

Addendum, Tex Hoy needs to start next week at prop.

 

[9701]

No Pearce

No Ponga

No Brailey

No Watson

3 players on debut

And we still got a f**king point


Adam O'Brien, I love you

No ponga Barnett fitzgibbon Bradley that's 4 of our starting squad. Then Pearce and Watson gone and glassy off to the head bin. Not a bad effort. Gutsiest performance I have seen from them for a very long time

 

[Reflector]

I remember during a Knights v Eels game after Smith and Hagan had switched clubs, and Gus said something along the lines of "It takes 18 months to build a club and 18 months to destroy one- and you're seeing the results of both out there" (Newcastle were convincingly beating Parra)

Today's effort made me think of this, especially in light of the Dragons' showing against the Warriors. Three games in so far this season and the Knights have shown resourcefulness that (depending upon squad availability) should take them this season to where they should've finished last season. You can see how O'Brien has changed the attitude in that club already. Penrith were carving up today for the first 20 minutes or so, carving the Knights up through the middle and if we're going to talk about how spirited the Knights were to leave Campbelltown with a point today then we should also be wondering how the Panthers managed to leave Campbelltown with just a point? They should've had that game iced by the 60th minute.

After the post-2013 years of shit and underachieving, hopefully 2020 is the year Newcastle can do what the Raiders did last year and become a fresh face well and truly in finals contention. Because I'm bored with seeing the Roosters and Storm every other year.

And if this doesn't end up being the game of the round, I will pay $20 for a cardboard cutout of myself in a Maroons jersey, holding a sign saying 'JOSH MCQUIRE YOU'RE MY HERO'

 

[blue bags]

You seem passionate about it. And I just realised I couldn’t give a shit.

Maybe write a strongly worded letter to the NRL.

you will give a shit, when your team gets the wrong call, from the silly outdated corner posts rules, we can put humans on the moon, but still use corner posts lol

 

[SBD82]

you will give a shit, when your team gets the wrong call, from the silly outdated corner posts rules, we can put humans on the moon, but still use corner posts lol

My team is your team.

You can give a shit for both of us.