2021 EF 2 Sun - Parramatta 28-20 Newcastle @ Browne

[mozza91]

knights are never going to be a serious challenger with their spine.
And now their have paid big money for an average hooker that doesn't run the ball.

Ray Stone played 56min and made 50 tackles with no misses. The guy looked better at hooker than any game he's played in the backrow

Brailey is excellent, he’s the least of our problems.

 

[ayatollah_murdoch]

knights are never going to be a serious challenger with their spine.
And now their have paid big money for an average hooker that doesn't run the ball.

Ray Stone played 56min and made 50 tackles with no misses. The guy looked better at hooker than any game he's played in the backrow

Ray Stone would be a handy pick up for the titans, dogs, tigers

 

[ayatollah_murdoch]

Brailey is excellent, he’s the least of our problems.

Agree. The Newcastle spine is actually very good now with Clifford. Ponga, Clifford, Pearce, Brailey. Top 6 spine in the compe.

 

[shear_joy9]

Brailey is excellent, he’s the least of our problems.

bog average. Put too much pressure on the halves today by not running

 

[hineyrulz]

I'm glad Parra got through because we get a chance to beat them in a final for the first time. The loss way back in 2000 scarred me as a teenager, got bagged out deluxe by Parra fans that week.

Go the Storm!!!

 

[Anon]

They also changed the rules after Dreamboat Trent copped the 'held' penalty bullshit in the 05 prelim. Bit of a trend here...
Luckily, i don't hold grudges.

They also changed the rule after the Storm scored the “winning” try against us following a play the ball allowed to take place after the full time siren.

 

[Bazal]

knights are never going to be a serious challenger with their spine.
And now their have paid big money for an average hooker that doesn't run the ball.

Ray Stone played 56min and made 50 tackles with no misses. The guy looked better at hooker than any game he's played in the backrow

Not really. He just had more minutes and a license to whack merkins all day. Ray Stone heaven

He made precisely no runs which he's actually pretty useful at on the back of a big Brown or Paulo charge

 

[Hutty1986]

They also changed the rule after the Storm scored the “winning” try against us following a play the ball allowed to take place after the full time siren.

Haha f**k, my PTSD had blocked that one out. We cop it more than Jeff Stryker at a Mardi Gras after party

 

[THE CHAMP]

Look at them all lining up on the right- there's a two-man overlap there at least. And yet he goes for this grubber he'd clearly decided upon around the 2nd tackle...

Holy shit.
Well spotted
You should be a coach

 

[Apey]

I havent read through this thread yet but I really dont think any of the refereeing calls were howlers. The Gutherson "drop kick" unfortunately has precedent as the correct technical ruling. Still, I'd prefer all incidents of that to be ruled with common sense as a knock on.

The better team won in the end. Their forwards played better and their halfback played better, that's where it was won.

 

[This Year?]

I was expecting the Knights to get thumped and bar a few errors they held a pretty decent account of themselves today. They've done pretty well just to make the finals after a horror start to the season and just like last year hopefully can use the experience to improve. Who knows what could have happened if their spine was together a few rounds earlier.

 

[beave]

Problem is it's not a knock on going by the "rules"......... we all know f**king well it was a knock on.......

 

[Reflector]

Holy shit.
Well spotted
You should be a coach

I've thought about it you know, but I don't think I could handle the frustration of it.

 

[Apey]

Pearce is so spent these days

He has Tigers 3 year signing written all over him

Plz take him

 

[Parra Pride]

Name checks out.

29 years of nothing but disappointment really erodes at the pride.

 

[natheel]

Thank god I don’t have to watch Newcastle again this season. They’re such a shitstain on the league. Leg twists, delayed HIAs to slow down teams momentum and don’t get me started on how over rated Kayla Ponga is

 

[Captain Apollo]

That match was probably the best performance I've seen from Mitchell Moses since he moved to Parramatta, More importantly it was in a big game (namely a finals match). Also thought Regan Campbell-Gillard had a belter of a game.

For the Knights, they are paying way too much for Kaylynn Ponga. Another big game, and another loss. Talk about over hyped and over paid.

 

[84 Baby]

I havent read through this thread yet but I really dont think any of the refereeing calls were howlers. The Gutherson "drop kick" unfortunately has precedent as the correct technical ruling. Still, I'd prefer all incidents of that to be ruled with common sense as a knock on.

The better team won in the end. Their forwards played better and their halfback played better, that's where it was won.

Everyone by now realises by now that if a player drops the ball intending to kick it and it touches the ground a poofteenth before he touches it with his foot then that is not a knock on per the rules. It’s not like the thing bounced back up to knee height and he volleyed it home like Zidane. The only avenue the people who still believe it was knock on have (besides a rule change which everyone always love) is that Gutho didn’t intend to kick it. And you’d have to be an idiot to think that.

 

[The_Frog]

Praying that no team is subjected to Klein or Atkins again this season.

Suspect it will be Klein and Sutton this week.

 

[yobbo84]

Suspect it will be Klein and Sutton this week.

One positive to your loss is that if you win this week, surely Sutton gets the 1v2 prelim. I'm scared sh*tless of copping Atkins in a prelim.