2024 R15 Sun - Newcastle 18-26 Penrith @ McDonald Jones

[chrisD]

Tago having an appalling year

It was way way over his shoulder. Best is awesome and he’s managed to keep him from scoring or creating a try. It’s perfectly fine.

 

[chrisD]

Hopefully Knights see the positives in two good losing performances against two good teams.

I think they should try Ponga at 6 again as they’ve got some decent talent at fullback and Gamble and Cogger aren’t it. Play to their strengths, Best, Gagai and that Mangy guy, Hastings, Ponga and Crossland given free reign to play what they see.

 

[Stinkfinger]

Panthers are in the process of shitting their pantaloons

They manage to fool a lot of people.

 

[Woody90]

Hopefully Knights see the positives in two good losing performances against two good teams.

I think they should try Ponga at 6 again as they’ve got some decent talent at fullback and Gamble and Cogger aren’t it. Play to their strengths, Best, Gagai and that Mangy guy, Hastings, Ponga and Crossland given free reign to play what they see.

Tbh I’m not too upset. I didn’t have much hope for the season after how slow we started, then any hope remaining left with the injuries. The loss of Gamble was a lot more costly than I think a lot of people realise. He’s not really seen as a good player outside of the Knights but he’s very important to us. Cogger and Hastings just don’t work together and Cogger isn’t FG standard outside of Penrith’s system. At least 12 points to Penrith today came directly off him.

I don’t think the majority of the squad is that bad, but we’re not going to win many games with the current halves. Brailey has struggled after so long out but I don’t think he’s the main problem. Apparently we’ve been talking to every half available so I think the club know it’s a problem.
Apparently we’ve just signed Peter O’Sullivan which will hopefully help.

 

[Stinkfinger]

l've enjoyed how Newcastle have played this second half. They couldn't go set-for-set with Penrith, so switched to all-out attack and had more success. Good coaching.

It's something I wanted to see Souths do 2020-22 against Penrith, but we kept trying to out-Penrith them and failed...

Souths in that era could always jag a try against the Riff when inside their 20 via Cody, it was getting there that was the problem.

 

[mozza91]

Proud of the effort today. Thought we’d get hammered in the 2nd half. Penrith were just too good when it mattered but we gave it a real crack.

Cogger was decent for Penrith last year but he was fantastic for them today. Absolute fraud of a footballer.